Snapdragon X65: Opening the 10Gbps era and supporting the latest 5G specifications

Snapdragon X65 wins the title of "World's Leading Internet Scientific and Technological Achievement": Opening the 10Gbps era and supporting the latest 5G specifications

On September 26, as "the world's first 5G modem-to-antenna solution that supports 10Gbps 5G transmission rate and complies with 3GPP Release 16 specifications", Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 5G modem and RF system was named "World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement" by the 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit. The conference used "extraordinary contribution" to evaluate the latest science and technology that won the award. This is the fifth time in recent years that Qualcomm has won the "World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement" for its leading 5G innovation.

Qualcomm Global Vice President Hou Mingjuan released and demonstrated the results at the conference. She said: "Snapdragon X65 is the world's first modem and RF solution that supports 10Gbps 5G transmission rate and complies with 3GPP Release 16, opening a new era of cellular communication connectivity. Snapdragon X65 is helping a wide range of ecosystem partners to enrich 5G terminal types and accelerate the implementation of 5G applications in more vertical industries. As China's digital transformation continues to deepen and expand, 5G's position as the main engine of the digital economy has been further consolidated. Qualcomm will continue to promote technological innovation, work with Chinese industry partners to cultivate the 5G ecosystem, share 5G innovation opportunities, and create a new era of digital economy."

Snapdragon X65 drives global 5G evolution with leading technology and scalability

5G will benefit almost all industries, and advanced 5G technology is essential to fully realize the value of 5G. The Snapdragon X65 5G modem and RF system was released in February this year, bringing a number of groundbreaking 5G technology innovations to the industry - supporting the fastest 5G transmission speeds on the market through wireless performance comparable to fiber optics, and supporting the latest 5G specifications. In June of this year, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​the Snapdragon X65 achieved a connection rate demonstration of more than 10Gbps, breaking the record for cellular communication connection speeds. The Snapdragon X65 also supports the industry's most comprehensive spectrum aggregation, covering Sub-6GHz and millimeter wave bands, providing strong support for the continued expansion and enhancement of 5G around the world.

Last year, the 3GPP standards organization launched a new 5G specification, Release 16, which defines the next stage of global 5G development. It is worth mentioning that the Snapdragon X65 is the world's first 5G modem-to-antenna solution that complies with the 3GPP Release 16 5G standard. Even more amazing is that the Snapdragon X65 adopts an architecture design that can support feature combination upgrades to support rapid commercial use. This means that new features can be continuously added through the Snapdragon X65 to expand 5G in multiple application segments beyond smartphones. In May of this year, Qualcomm launched upgraded features for the Snapdragon X65, including energy efficiency improvements, as well as support for millimeter wave independent networking (SA) mode and millimeter wave carrier bandwidth of up to 200MHz, the latter of which is a key requirement for meeting China's 5G millimeter wave deployment.

Based on Snapdragon X65, Qualcomm and ZTE jointly achieved China's first high-speed connection using 5G NR independent networking dual connection (NR-DC) in August this year, based on 200MHz carrier channels in the 26GHz millimeter wave band and 100MHz bandwidth in the 3.5GHz band. This is a 5G millimeter wave milestone achieved by both parties in order to cooperate with and support the 5G millimeter wave testing and deployment requirements for supporting 200MHz carrier bandwidth formulated by the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group. At present, China's 5G development is progressing steadily, and millimeter wave will be an important area for 5G to deepen in the future. Facing the next evolution of 5G, 5G millimeter wave will release higher technological dividends; at the same time, millimeter wave will also become one of the foundations of 6G technology, providing important support for the continuous evolution of mobile technology.

Seize the day, Snapdragon X65 helps the industry accelerate digital transformation

As we all know, for advanced 5G technology to truly benefit consumers and industry users, it is inseparable from the rapid productization and launch of 5G terminals. Based on Snapdragon X65, Qualcomm and global ecosystem partners are working together to "race against time". Just two weeks after the release of Snapdragon X65, several Chinese module manufacturers such as Quectel Communications, Fibocom, and SIMCom launched 5G modules equipped with Snapdragon X65 to support the rapid implementation of the latest 5G technology in a wide range of IoT segments such as industrial Internet, high-definition video, telemedicine, unmanned driving, and distance education, bringing more extreme 5G connection support to vertical industries.

With the close cooperation of the industry chain, Snapdragon X65 is playing a vital role in enabling new 5G use cases - not only helping terminal manufacturers redefine top-level smartphones, but also supporting more industry partners to expand 5G to mobile broadband, computing, extended reality (XR), industrial Internet of Things, 5G enterprise private networks and fixed wireless access.

In February this year, Qualcomm released the second-generation 5G fixed wireless access platform and reference design equipped with Snapdragon X65, helping mobile operators replace DSL, cable or fiber with plug-and-play 5G solutions, accelerating the introduction of 5G services to homes and businesses. In May this year, Qualcomm launched the world's first 10Gbps 5G M.2 reference design based on Snapdragon X65, accelerating the popularization of 5G in PCs, always-connected PCs, laptops, CPE, XR, games and other mobile broadband terminal devices.

Today, in China, 5G networks have covered all prefecture-level cities, more than 95% of county towns, and 35% of townships, with nearly 420 million 5G terminal connections. The 5G-enabled digital economy is developing rapidly. As the cornerstone of Qualcomm's 5G technology advantages for all walks of life, the Snapdragon X65 5G modem and RF system is empowering Chinese partners, promoting 5G industry transformation and application innovation, and creating unlimited possibilities for 5G-enabled digital economic transformation.