It seems that Samsung and Qualcomm have really fallen out! Recently, Qualcomm announced 18 partners that will use Qualcomm X50 5GNR baseband chips next year. In addition to some operators, mobile phone manufacturers are also a highlight: Xiaomi, ZTE OPPO、vivo、HTC、 Sharp et al.
It is worth noting that Samsung is not among them, which is basically an official announcement that Samsung has broken with Qualcomm! But Meizu is not among them, and I feel Meiyou is really going to cry.
It is very normal that Apple and Huawei are not on this list. After all, Qualcomm is not necessary. Samsung and Meizu would be very unusual if they were not in China. It is estimated that Samsung must separate from Qualcomm in order to seize the 5G market. Interestingly, according to the previous information, the orders for the next generation of sales processors will be outsourced by TSMC. So it should be true.
For Samsung now, when its 4G contract with Qualcomm expires, Samsung should also be working hard to develop its own processor and baseband. Now Apple and Huawei are constantly improving their baseband. On the contrary, Meizu has no idea of joining Qualcomm's 5G team.
Qualcomm officially released the 5G baseband of the world's first mobile device last year. Although it is only based on the 28nm process, it can support a peak download speed of up to 5 gigabits per second!