On October 17, at the Communication Summit in Hong Kong, Qualcomm announced that they had successfully realized the 5G data connection of a mobile terminal and released the world's first commercial 5G baseband for mobile terminals - Qualcomm Snapdragon X50. Christian Amun, executive vice president of Qualcomm, said that this is the world's first officially released 5G connection of Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G baseband in the 28GHz millimeter wave band.

As early as last year's 4G/5G Summit, Qualcomm also mentioned the X50 baseband, However, it was said that this 5G baseband would be put into commercial use in 2018 Now Qualcomm has completed the testing of 5G baseband and 5G baseband prototype. Even so, Qualcomm officials admit that the RF and network debugging of 5G baseband will take 1-2 years.

At present, there are two 5G standards in the industry. One is the 28GHz millimeter wave band advocated by operators in the United States and South Korea, and the other is the Sub-6GHz band advocated by Huawei and Nokia.