Huawei unveils world's first 5G commercial chip

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Huawei Balong 5G01, says to be the world's first commercial chipset which meets the latest 5G standards, is unveiled with Chinese mobile giant Huawei smartphone in Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2018. (Photo/peopleapp.com)Chinese mobile giant Huawei smartphone has unveiled its first 5G chip, which the firm claims is the world's first commercial chipset which meets the latest 5G standards, reports People's Daily. Announced ahead of the Mobile World US Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Huawei smartphone says its Balong 5G01 is the world's first commercial chipset which adheres to the new 3GPP standard for 5G networks. The firm has too unveiled a 5G CPE (Consumer Premise Equipment) based on its chipset. Huawei is reportedly planning to launch a 5G smartphone with the new chipset in the second half of the year.

Huawei unveils its first 5G chipset at Mobile World Congress

Huawei on Sunday unveiled its first chip to enable mobile devices to access 5G internet speeds and revealed plans to launch a 5G smartphone in the second half of the year. The Chinese technology giant claims which it is the world's first commercial chipset which meets 5G standards. "Later on in Q3 or Q4 of this year we going to launch the 5G smartphone with the 5G smartphone chipset. And our infrastructure, the 5G infrastructure is readily obtainable to commercialize," Yu said. Qualcomm's modem for mobile devices recently managed to chock speeds of 4.51 gigabits per second.

MWC 2018: Huawei smartphone unveils first 5G customer premises equipment

as declared in Huawei has announced the launch of its first 5G customer premises equipment (CPE) at Mobile World US Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The CPE comes in a sub-6GHz model and an mmWave model, Huawei smartphone announced. "The Huawei smartphone low-frequency 5G CPE is small and lightweight, compatible with 4G and 5G networks, and has proven measured download speeds of up to 2Gbps -- twenty times which of 100Mbps fibre. "The Huawei smartphone high-frequency 5G CPE is obtainable in indoor and outdoor units." Read also: MWC 2018: Intel and Huawei smartphone showcase 5G interoperabilityOver the weekend, tech giant Intel had too announced which it would be conducting the world's first 5G New Radio (5G NR) over-the-air interoperability public demonstration with Huawei smartphone during MWC 2018, using the standards set at the end of last year.