How the hell is this agressive?
They just purchased Intel's mobile department. Surely Intel had been working on and had ready to ship samples of 5G modems? This is just more bluster so that they have an excuse to not upgrade the internal for another few years.
Agressive announcment would be aiming for 1 year, not 3.
If this is Apple's idea of aggressive, it goes a long way to explaining the speed at which they don't bother p update many products.
The Modem Intel had were specific to Intel's Foundry. You simply cant copy and paste the design to TSMC or Samsung and expect it to work. And hence the whole lengthy negotiation between Apple and Intel, since this modem design is pretty worthless to most other Mobile Phone manufacturers. Apple will likely start from scratch and only brings small pieces and IP from previous Intel Modem.
Not to mention Intel Modem has small x86 Core inside which you can guess is likely not part of the deal given to Apple.
Honest question. What is the main advantage of 5G? Is it simply speed?
I am going to copy my answer from another post
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what’s-the-point-of-5g.2164494/post-27576814
Freakonomics101 said:
Other than higher speeds, why spend all that money on 5G when it can be used to make LTE even better and stronger?
Because 5G is exactly what you said, a better and stronger LTE.
Isn’t 5G going to reach even shorter distances?
The 5G that everyone hypes about, is only one part of 5G called mmWave. Using 26/28Ghz Spectrum giving you super speed at short distance within clear line of sight. It is exciting to media because it gives you to potential to have 2Gbps speed, and since they are short distance they are less likely to be congested like cell tower. And it is really good at show casing.
The other part of 5G is what you don't often hear about, partly because it is boring. You have a new Air Interface called NR, that work across from low band frequency all the way up to 60Ghz. And there are many more spectrum available, like the new 3.5Ghz. There is better LAA, MU-MIMO, Small Cell Support, Network Slicing, Lower Latency, Super Low Latency Mode called URLLC, ( Which is what the media constantly bagging on about 1ms, are not going to be used in your general purpose mobile network as it is for special usage only. ). Many of these ( if not All ) exist in one form or another in the later part of 4G or 4.5 / 4.9G. They are just iterative improvements. Much like how you upgrade from 4G to 4.5G, and 4.5G to 4.9G.
So the reality is, 5G is exactly what you asked for, a better and stronger 4G.
