Chipsets Status Update: LTE, 5G And 3GPP IoT

More 5G silicon is starting to appear and an increase in high end LTE chipsets as devices start to support Cat-16

• 23 discrete cellular modem chipsets supporting LTE (excluding 5G-capable silicon)
• 124 mobile platforms or processors supporting LTE
• 26 modem or platform chipsets supporting 3GPP IoT technologies

Since our last report in June there has been further activity. Joining Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X50 and Intel’s XMM 8060 modem  chipsets are Samsung’s Exynos 5100 and MediaTek’s Helio M70. Hi-Silicon’s Balong 5G01 was also noted in our last report. Precise commercial status of these chipsets, and of mobile platforms that integrate these modems, is difficult to confirm at present, but there is now some 5G user equipment available in limited volumes (for instance from Huawei and Samsung), and we expect Samsung’s, Hi-Silicon’s and and Qualcomm’s products are being used in some of these devices. MediaTek says that devices using its Helio M70 modem will be commercially available in 2019. – Gsacom