Samsung may plan to increase production of 5G modem chips

Samsung's strength in 5G is actually not bad. The world's first 5G mobile phone is the best example. Of course, the mobile phone has its own 5G baseband Exynos Modem 5100.

According to South Korea's "Daily Economic News" report, Samsung plans to increase the production of 5G modem chips in view of the expected rapid growth in the relevant market.

Exynos Modem 5100 is Samsung's first 5G baseband, manufactured by Samsung's 10nm LPP process. It supports the 3GHz 5G NR new air interface protocol and below the 6GHz and 28/39GHz millimeter wave bands. It supports 5G NSA non-independent networking mode and supports enhanced 4x4 MIMO and seven. Carrier aggregation, the maximum download speed of 2Gbps below 6GHz, upload speed of 150Mbps, millimeter wave band download speed of up to 6Gbps. At the same time it is also compatible with 2G, 3G, 4G, the highest LTE Cat.20, and the download speed is 1.6Gbps.

Earlier, Samsung announced that it had conducted a test on the KT 5G commercial network using the Galaxy S10 5G mobile phone in Seoul, South Korea, in conjunction with South Korean operator KT, and ran a 1Gbps download speed.

Chip makers such as Qualcomm, MediaTek and Intel are also producing 5G modems. Intel's 5G chips may appear on the new iPhone released next year. UBS disagreed with the fact that these 5G devices could be released at scheduled times, but Intel said that its modem chip production is still on schedule.