Not gonna lie if you had some RNG that clicking on one of your articles instead linked to a massive single page that contained the entire text of ulysses I'd be on the floor laughing.
They have been tested to like 1.5gbps but you need to be standing in front of the tower, pointless but the speed is there. The biggest atrocity is why majority of home routers are stuck with ancient 1gbps ports.
eek2121: I don't know where you live but most manufacturers don't offer nothing more than ONE 2.5 gbit port on modem-routers; I also searched recently for a 10 gbit NAS and router for acceptable prices and I found none. So please tell me which ones you have available unter $300...
10 gbit POSSIBLE connection doesn't mean existing real connection.
But you're right, it's embarrassing that 99.99% of home routers don't even have 10 gbit Lan connecting. Most newer modem routers have ONE single 2.5 gbit port.... in 2022 I would expect a 2.5 gbit internet port and all other 4-6 as 10 gbit., as well most consoles, laptops, etc should have 10 gbit as default. Embarrassing...
With the current shortcase I'd be surprised if they can meet the demand with the current X60. It would depend entirely on Samsung, but I'm not expecting much as there are even rumors of low yield for the S888 and Exynos 2100 which is 5lppe not even this new 4lppe
"Interestingly, both new X65 and X62 modems are manufactured on a 4nm node – this should be Samsung’s 4LPE node which is a further iterative improvement of their current 5LPE technology."
Just imagine if GloFlo had stayed the course - they would be reaping the benefits of "unprecedented demand" right now. Maybe they would be iterating on their 5nm process tech right now too. I know they had their issues, but they had enough technical talent to iron it out, just like Intel. A short bridge loan might have gotten them over the hump, and now the money they would be making would have easily paid it off.
I'm fairly surprised they haven't licensed another node from Samsung. Maybe that'll be their long-term strategy - buy up "old" fab tech and mass-produce it while the other fabs do the research.
LOL! Global F(l)oundries is good at making power points. Almost every shrink it had done, it had to do with a third parties help. Every node it tried, it had to run towards some one else to assist in producing it from IBM to STI to Samsung.
So it has basically gobbled up all its small competitors and still produces the same s**t. Chartered Semi IBM micro electronics.
So much speed but in a mobile which has a limited lifetime of max 2 years until battery deteriorates, wonder why ? well It's just to keep people hooked to these social media devices more, what else since the phone can never operate like a pc. Locked to the brim.
Only the uncreative whine about the "limitations" of a phone because it is they who are locked into doing things only the way they want, on only the equipment they want. Don't be so surprised when all of technology leaves you behind.
The only Whine I see is yours, which is completely unrelated to it and uses a phantom technology superiority.
An iPhone cannot function without Apple ID, an iPhone cannot work without iTunes for data transfer or need to rely on "tools" (3utools, bet you don't even know this exists), an iPhone cannot have an expanded storage which helps in the emergency case of data privac, Need licensed products to have basic capability like Audio (Made for iDevice program), Mac OS and iOS killed 32bit support which killed so many older applications and games, Apple HW is worse, since they use Soldered Storage, DRAM, KB, Batteries, proprietary chips which break any sort of user servicing in the name of blackbox security.
Android phones have adopted the same filesystem castration standard with scoped storage. Any phone on the market has lost it's value more than 40% under a year and the technology getting outdated so fast vs a regular PC which has minimum lifespan of 4-6years, similar to that of Consoles. an i7 2600K is on par with some chips in 2020 and it is still relevant in gaming as the tests shown by Gamers Nexus. So is Windows 7 which can run COD, CB2077 and other games from 2020 and applications and MS security updates in 2020, which is from past decade, which got only beaten by market share by Win10 in 2018 only. Whereas any OS or HW from past decade is trashed and ended up at a landfill.
A smartphone is just a camera focused social media tool nowadays, it has lost all of the FM radio, battery DIY, expandable storage, ease of serviceability, poor price to performance no matter how you dice it. Unless you are here to consooom / drink kool-aid.
"Android phones have adopted the same filesystem castration standard with scoped storage" Seriously, are you Quantumz0d? You have the exact same baseless complaint about a planned change that never actually happened.
Has technology ever left anyone behind? You're hyping the so called "technology" that tech companies trying to scam with. The tech that you're praising causes much more sickness, disease and death than it cures them. Not to mention it changes human behavior in a bad way. Imagine in the future people like you will have a chip to help them think and act. Glad I won't be around then.
Also, adding 5G support to a PC seems strange when PCs don’t move nearly as much. The closest compromise would be 5G on an iPad Pro, which largely uses the same architecture as the MacBooks.
I never said PC numbers is high. Only mentioning how Smartphone is getting all this but it's all wasted soon due to the market and the corporations priorities. Esp the impact of Social Media. Android has already surpassed Windows in global OS marketshare in OCT 2020.
But it's not wasted on smartphones. It only makes sense on smartphones.
WiFi 6 is the solution on the PC side, and hits speeds of 9.6Gbps, while 5G is 250Mbps on the low bands, 900Mbps on the mid band, and high band can hit Gbps but a range under a couple hundred meters.
Realistically then a WiFi6 laptop will be 10x faster than the average 5G smartphone.
5G has potential in areas with crowded reception, like football stadiums and such. That is, if we ever use them again.
And with the push for bigger batteries devices are lasting longer. My moto z was 4.5 years old until an unfortunate fall destroyed the radio, and the battery was still quite usable, having gone from 10 hours to 8.5 hours of SoT on a single charge.
A flagship product like V60 or Samsung S21+ will not have 4.5 years of usage, not at all. I cannot speak for you but myself since even when I try to charge from 35% to 80% the battery loses its 1/3 capacity by 2 years, that too when I used no fast charging for the whole duration. The fast charging technology ruins the batteries at a faster rate, Andrei also mentioned this. Qi also ruins batteries faster. Sony did one great thing which is not to use battery power when plugged to a wall and doing intensive workloads.
Even iPhone batteries are prone to that Li Ion problem which Apple got caught now putting the deterioration number right for user to allow them to pay for the service and get them replaced at an Apple store, Android market is worse in this aspect due to lack of similar servicing options.
No matter what a smartphone ends up in a landfill sooner or later faster than a PC / Laptop.
I mean, yeah, smartphones don't last as long. I just retired a 2012 MBP for a 2020 MBP (8 years) while my sister in law and wife are both using 2015/2016 iPhones 6S and 7 and looking to replace them this year after only 6/5 years in use.
But that's a product of smartphone technology 6 years ago not being as advanced too.
Phones are also used almost entirely on their battery, whereas laptops tend to spend most of their life operating on AC power. 6 years is a pretty solid life for a mobile device - I do wish we'd get better at recycling them, but after that long there tends to be a lot more wrong with them than just being old (debris in ports, speaker damage, etc.)
Hard disagree on the battery life claims - my current device (OnePlus 6) still easily gets more than a day's normal usage out of the battery after 2.5 years
Also, you whinge about iPhones all the time, but the people I know who keep smartphones the longest are all Apple users. I don't know many who will keep one for less than 3 years, and most people I know keep them for 6 or more - sometimes passed on to another user, but always kept going until they collapse.
We just paid for a third party battery replacement on an iPhone 6S, which still performs admirably. No Android phone from the same era could claim likewise.
I have a Galaxy S7 that's running just fine over here. January 2020 it was replaced with a Galaxy S10e, so my daughter uses the S7 now. It even received over 4 years of security updates. Yes, the battery was replaced twice, but the phone itself is still running fine. In March, that phone will pass it's 5th birthday.
Also have an LG V20 that's still running fine. The other daughter uses that one. It has a removable battery, so it's much less expensive to replace. Had to replace the screen once, and it's all cracked up again, so will need another replacement ... not sure if it'll be worth it, though. It's also on it's 3rd battery. Unfortunately, updates for it ended long ago. Come March, it will pass it's 4th birthday.
We also have a Galaxy A8 (2018) that's running fine on it's original battery. Still makes it through the day without needing a charge, although it's now down into single-digits by bedtime (instead of 20-30%). Will probably need a new battery this year. January marked it's 3rd birthday.
IOW, phones last a log longer than you seem to think they do. I fully expect the S7 to last another year or two; the A8 to last another year or two; and (if we replace the screen) for the V20 to last another year or two. Getting 5 years of use out of a phone is easy to do, so long as the screen remains intact.
The big issue with Android phones is security updates. Samsung is much better about them these days; LG is pretty much useless.
The oldest iPhone in my house is 4 years old and Apple claims the battery is at 81% according to settings. I bought my iPhone 11 Pro Max at launch and the battery is at 99%.
also my 3Ah phone still lasts a workday at 4 years old, as well as performing acceptably for music, reading and Youtube/Twitch on 6.0.1, SD625 and 4GB ram
That said we will never see 10Gb speeds from ISPs. I hope those companies physically feel their bones coalify
Maybe not, but I felt pretty futuristic swapping out my PinePhone motherboard (I got one of the beta "Braveheart" boards). Performance on the chip they chose sucks, but I wouldn't be shocked if I'm able to upgrade my board to a (still mediocre but not mind-numbingly so) RK3566 board in a couple years, and keep the display/assembly still.
Samsung 5/4NM needs someone to come up with a measurement tool.
The fact that their 5NM doesn't even compete with TSMC 7NM, and their 4 will probably only match the original 7nm points to how badly its a marketing thing and lots of people who don't understand the difference will be mislead.
This skew in nodes have been a thing for decades now. Some say the last measurable technology was 90nm, others argue 65nm... 45nmm... But, the point is, the number hasn't matched up with actual minimum useable feature size for a very long time now. This is even more true when the fabs switched to FinFets. The only rule today is smaller is better and that's only comparable to nodes within a specific foundry.
For Reference: TSMC 7nm is a full node shrink from TSMC 16nm Intel 10nm is approximately between TSMC 7nm in terms density/characteristics...
I've never understood the people "will be mislead" angle. The sort of people who would be mislead don't read or care about manufacturing nodes, and the people making the complaint are always aware of the problem (even when they don't fully understand it).
I don't mind the short article. It gets all the important details without a huge investment in time to write the article or read it. The only thing I might have wanted would be a table comparing the X65, X62, and maybe one or two previous generations of modems.
As for the modems themselves, Qualcomm is checking the right boxes for year over year incremental improvements: More aggregate bandwidth, more bands, higher carrier aggregation count, node shrink.
I'll take more capability at (hopefully) measurably lower power consumption.
I'm assuming there's no mention on whether these modems will be discrete, integrated into future SoCs, or both?
When will Samsung's nodes be ready for something a little bigger like Nvidia's Lovelace? What high power processes will be ready by the end of this year? How is their 3nm GAA tech coming on? Samsung claimed mass production would be this year.
I think this is the next step in the development of mobile processors. I wrote about this in my essay which was published on / . The fact is that the power consumption of such processors is very low. But I also have a question - how difficult will the next step in reducing the technical complexity of the architecture of mobile chips be?
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shabby - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Shortest article ever!Ryan Smith - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
We've been working on not turning every last article into Ulysses. However we may have overdone it in this case...TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Not gonna lie if you had some RNG that clicking on one of your articles instead linked to a massive single page that contained the entire text of ulysses I'd be on the floor laughing.CSMR - Thursday, February 11, 2021 - link
No this is a good lengthSpunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
This was ideal 👍skavi - Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - link
I wouldn't have minded a table and further analysis.SydneyBlue120d - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
A picture is worth a thousand words!Marlin1975 - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2021/02/09/...shabby - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Can't believe we'll have 10gbit wireless speeds first on our phones than 10gbit in our home networks... thanks intel!PseudoKnight - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
5G connections haven't even gotten to 1gbit in practice yet. But we've had things like WirelessHD and WiGig that have long surpassed those numbers.shabby - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
They have been tested to like 1.5gbps but you need to be standing in front of the tower, pointless but the speed is there.The biggest atrocity is why majority of home routers are stuck with ancient 1gbps ports.
eek2121 - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
I mean, if you want to make that argument, 10 gbit *and* 100 gbit for "home networks" has been available for a decade or more.shabby - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
And which consumer router has those?rmcrys - Thursday, February 24, 2022 - link
eek2121: I don't know where you live but most manufacturers don't offer nothing more than ONE 2.5 gbit port on modem-routers; I also searched recently for a 10 gbit NAS and router for acceptable prices and I found none. So please tell me which ones you have available unter $300...HardwareDufus - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
"The biggest atrocity is why majority of home routers are stuck with ancient 1gbps ports."-- real first world problem right there...
rmcrys - Thursday, February 24, 2022 - link
10 gbit POSSIBLE connection doesn't mean existing real connection.But you're right, it's embarrassing that 99.99% of home routers don't even have 10 gbit Lan connecting. Most newer modem routers have ONE single 2.5 gbit port.... in 2022 I would expect a 2.5 gbit internet port and all other 4-6 as 10 gbit., as well most consoles, laptops, etc should have 10 gbit as default. Embarrassing...
sharathc - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Dafuk? :DSydneyBlue120d - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Do You think it will be possible to expect in iPhone 2021 based on "late 2021" assumption?dudedud - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
With the current shortcase I'd be surprised if they can meet the demand with the current X60.It would depend entirely on Samsung, but I'm not expecting much as there are even rumors of low yield for the S888 and Exynos 2100 which is 5lppe not even this new 4lppe
romrunning - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
"Interestingly, both new X65 and X62 modems are manufactured on a 4nm node – this should be Samsung’s 4LPE node which is a further iterative improvement of their current 5LPE technology."Just imagine if GloFlo had stayed the course - they would be reaping the benefits of "unprecedented demand" right now. Maybe they would be iterating on their 5nm process tech right now too. I know they had their issues, but they had enough technical talent to iron it out, just like Intel. A short bridge loan might have gotten them over the hump, and now the money they would be making would have easily paid it off.
eek2121 - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
They wanted to become the "Walmart" of silicon instead...(and they succeeded).If you want 14nm/12nm stuff done on the cheap you can go to GloFo.
HardwareDufus - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
ufff, the number of folks I know that became redundant at that Malta, NY campus once they made that public.....Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
I'm fairly surprised they haven't licensed another node from Samsung. Maybe that'll be their long-term strategy - buy up "old" fab tech and mass-produce it while the other fabs do the research.rocketbuddha - Sunday, February 14, 2021 - link
LOL! Global F(l)oundries is good at making power points. Almost every shrink it had done, it had to do with a third parties help.Every node it tried, it had to run towards some one else to assist in producing it from IBM to STI to Samsung.
So it has basically gobbled up all its small competitors and still produces the same s**t.
Chartered Semi
IBM micro electronics.
Silver5urfer - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
So much speed but in a mobile which has a limited lifetime of max 2 years until battery deteriorates, wonder why ? well It's just to keep people hooked to these social media devices more, what else since the phone can never operate like a pc. Locked to the brim.The Garden Variety - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Only the uncreative whine about the "limitations" of a phone because it is they who are locked into doing things only the way they want, on only the equipment they want. Don't be so surprised when all of technology leaves you behind.Silver5urfer - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
The only Whine I see is yours, which is completely unrelated to it and uses a phantom technology superiority.An iPhone cannot function without Apple ID, an iPhone cannot work without iTunes for data transfer or need to rely on "tools" (3utools, bet you don't even know this exists), an iPhone cannot have an expanded storage which helps in the emergency case of data privac, Need licensed products to have basic capability like Audio (Made for iDevice program), Mac OS and iOS killed 32bit support which killed so many older applications and games, Apple HW is worse, since they use Soldered Storage, DRAM, KB, Batteries, proprietary chips which break any sort of user servicing in the name of blackbox security.
Android phones have adopted the same filesystem castration standard with scoped storage. Any phone on the market has lost it's value more than 40% under a year and the technology getting outdated so fast vs a regular PC which has minimum lifespan of 4-6years, similar to that of Consoles. an i7 2600K is on par with some chips in 2020 and it is still relevant in gaming as the tests shown by Gamers Nexus. So is Windows 7 which can run COD, CB2077 and other games from 2020 and applications and MS security updates in 2020, which is from past decade, which got only beaten by market share by Win10 in 2018 only. Whereas any OS or HW from past decade is trashed and ended up at a landfill.
A smartphone is just a camera focused social media tool nowadays, it has lost all of the FM radio, battery DIY, expandable storage, ease of serviceability, poor price to performance no matter how you dice it. Unless you are here to consooom / drink kool-aid.
Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
"Android phones have adopted the same filesystem castration standard with scoped storage"Seriously, are you Quantumz0d? You have the exact same baseless complaint about a planned change that never actually happened.
lmcd - Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - link
This is why article chat sections need moderation lolsonny73n - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Has technology ever left anyone behind? You're hyping the so called "technology" that tech companies trying to scam with. The tech that you're praising causes much more sickness, disease and death than it cures them. Not to mention it changes human behavior in a bad way. Imagine in the future people like you will have a chip to help them think and act. Glad I won't be around then.michael2k - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
More people use mobile than PC.Also, adding 5G support to a PC seems strange when PCs don’t move nearly as much. The closest compromise would be 5G on an iPad Pro, which largely uses the same architecture as the MacBooks.
Silver5urfer - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
I never said PC numbers is high. Only mentioning how Smartphone is getting all this but it's all wasted soon due to the market and the corporations priorities. Esp the impact of Social Media. Android has already surpassed Windows in global OS marketshare in OCT 2020.michael2k - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
But it's not wasted on smartphones. It only makes sense on smartphones.WiFi 6 is the solution on the PC side, and hits speeds of 9.6Gbps, while 5G is 250Mbps on the low bands, 900Mbps on the mid band, and high band can hit Gbps but a range under a couple hundred meters.
Realistically then a WiFi6 laptop will be 10x faster than the average 5G smartphone.
TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
5G has potential in areas with crowded reception, like football stadiums and such. That is, if we ever use them again.And with the push for bigger batteries devices are lasting longer. My moto z was 4.5 years old until an unfortunate fall destroyed the radio, and the battery was still quite usable, having gone from 10 hours to 8.5 hours of SoT on a single charge.
Silver5urfer - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
A flagship product like V60 or Samsung S21+ will not have 4.5 years of usage, not at all. I cannot speak for you but myself since even when I try to charge from 35% to 80% the battery loses its 1/3 capacity by 2 years, that too when I used no fast charging for the whole duration. The fast charging technology ruins the batteries at a faster rate, Andrei also mentioned this. Qi also ruins batteries faster. Sony did one great thing which is not to use battery power when plugged to a wall and doing intensive workloads.Even iPhone batteries are prone to that Li Ion problem which Apple got caught now putting the deterioration number right for user to allow them to pay for the service and get them replaced at an Apple store, Android market is worse in this aspect due to lack of similar servicing options.
No matter what a smartphone ends up in a landfill sooner or later faster than a PC / Laptop.
michael2k - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
I mean, yeah, smartphones don't last as long. I just retired a 2012 MBP for a 2020 MBP (8 years) while my sister in law and wife are both using 2015/2016 iPhones 6S and 7 and looking to replace them this year after only 6/5 years in use.But that's a product of smartphone technology 6 years ago not being as advanced too.
Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
Phones are also used almost entirely on their battery, whereas laptops tend to spend most of their life operating on AC power. 6 years is a pretty solid life for a mobile device - I do wish we'd get better at recycling them, but after that long there tends to be a lot more wrong with them than just being old (debris in ports, speaker damage, etc.)Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
Hard disagree on the battery life claims - my current device (OnePlus 6) still easily gets more than a day's normal usage out of the battery after 2.5 yearsAlso, you whinge about iPhones all the time, but the people I know who keep smartphones the longest are all Apple users. I don't know many who will keep one for less than 3 years, and most people I know keep them for 6 or more - sometimes passed on to another user, but always kept going until they collapse.
lmcd - Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - link
We just paid for a third party battery replacement on an iPhone 6S, which still performs admirably. No Android phone from the same era could claim likewise.phoenix_rizzen - Sunday, February 21, 2021 - link
I have a Galaxy S7 that's running just fine over here. January 2020 it was replaced with a Galaxy S10e, so my daughter uses the S7 now. It even received over 4 years of security updates. Yes, the battery was replaced twice, but the phone itself is still running fine. In March, that phone will pass it's 5th birthday.Also have an LG V20 that's still running fine. The other daughter uses that one. It has a removable battery, so it's much less expensive to replace. Had to replace the screen once, and it's all cracked up again, so will need another replacement ... not sure if it'll be worth it, though. It's also on it's 3rd battery. Unfortunately, updates for it ended long ago. Come March, it will pass it's 4th birthday.
We also have a Galaxy A8 (2018) that's running fine on it's original battery. Still makes it through the day without needing a charge, although it's now down into single-digits by bedtime (instead of 20-30%). Will probably need a new battery this year. January marked it's 3rd birthday.
IOW, phones last a log longer than you seem to think they do. I fully expect the S7 to last another year or two; the A8 to last another year or two; and (if we replace the screen) for the V20 to last another year or two. Getting 5 years of use out of a phone is easy to do, so long as the screen remains intact.
The big issue with Android phones is security updates. Samsung is much better about them these days; LG is pretty much useless.
eek2121 - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
The oldest iPhone in my house is 4 years old and Apple claims the battery is at 81% according to settings. I bought my iPhone 11 Pro Max at launch and the battery is at 99%.Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
Buy an Android and do as the plants doalso my 3Ah phone still lasts a workday at 4 years old, as well as performing acceptably for music, reading and Youtube/Twitch on 6.0.1, SD625 and 4GB ram
That said we will never see 10Gb speeds from ISPs. I hope those companies physically feel their bones coalify
Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
The PC paradigm isn't the only way to get things done.lmcd - Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - link
Maybe not, but I felt pretty futuristic swapping out my PinePhone motherboard (I got one of the beta "Braveheart" boards). Performance on the chip they chose sucks, but I wouldn't be shocked if I'm able to upgrade my board to a (still mediocre but not mind-numbingly so) RK3566 board in a couple years, and keep the display/assembly still.RSAUser - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Samsung 5/4NM needs someone to come up with a measurement tool.The fact that their 5NM doesn't even compete with TSMC 7NM, and their 4 will probably only match the original 7nm points to how badly its a marketing thing and lots of people who don't understand the difference will be mislead.
weilin - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
This skew in nodes have been a thing for decades now. Some say the last measurable technology was 90nm, others argue 65nm... 45nmm... But, the point is, the number hasn't matched up with actual minimum useable feature size for a very long time now. This is even more true when the fabs switched to FinFets. The only rule today is smaller is better and that's only comparable to nodes within a specific foundry.For Reference:
TSMC 7nm is a full node shrink from TSMC 16nm
Intel 10nm is approximately between TSMC 7nm in terms density/characteristics...
weilin - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
Addendum:TSMC 6nm is an refinement of 7nm (its only about 20% denser)
TSMC 5nm is closer to the traditional node shrink from 7nm (about 80% denser)
Spunjji - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
Right on.I've never understood the people "will be mislead" angle. The sort of people who would be mislead don't read or care about manufacturing nodes, and the people making the complaint are always aware of the problem (even when they don't fully understand it).
MrCommunistGen - Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - link
I don't mind the short article. It gets all the important details without a huge investment in time to write the article or read it. The only thing I might have wanted would be a table comparing the X65, X62, and maybe one or two previous generations of modems.As for the modems themselves, Qualcomm is checking the right boxes for year over year incremental improvements: More aggregate bandwidth, more bands, higher carrier aggregation count, node shrink.
I'll take more capability at (hopefully) measurably lower power consumption.
I'm assuming there's no mention on whether these modems will be discrete, integrated into future SoCs, or both?
Oberoth - Thursday, February 11, 2021 - link
When will Samsung's nodes be ready for something a little bigger like Nvidia's Lovelace? What high power processes will be ready by the end of this year?How is their 3nm GAA tech coming on? Samsung claimed mass production would be this year.
Appleispoop - Friday, February 12, 2021 - link
4nm? NANI?Salman Ahmed - Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - link
TSMC 6nm may perform better than Samsung 4nm :(lmcd - Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - link
TSMC 7nm+ might still perform better loldemeos - Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - link
I think this is the next step in the development of mobile processors. I wrote aboutthis in my essay which was published on / . The fact is that the power consumption of such processors is very low. But I also have a question - how difficult will the next step in reducing the technical complexity of the architecture of mobile chips be?