{"id":155729,"date":"2019-08-13T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/huaweis_5g_modem_is_big_inefficient_and_expensive_a_teardown_reveals-news-38649.php"},"modified":"2019-08-13T19:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:45:01","slug":"huaweis-5g-modem-is-larger-and-less-efficient-than-qualcomms-a-teardown-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/13\/huaweis-5g-modem-is-larger-and-less-efficient-than-qualcomms-a-teardown-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei&#8217;s 5G modem is larger and less efficient than Qualcomm&#8217;s, a teardown reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/19\/01\/huawei-5g-prebriefing\/-184x111\/gsmarena_001.jpg?resize=184%2C111&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"184\" height=\"111\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=left style=\"background:#333333;padding:0px;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:1px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>IHS Markit  has done some extensive research on early 5G adoption using six early 5G-capable smartphones and looked inside. The teardowns revealed that Huawei ended up with a larger, less efficient and more expensive 5G chip than the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Kirin 980 chipset comes equipped with a 4G\/3G\/2G modem of its own, the Balong 5000 5G modem is added externally leaving the original 4G modem unused and taking a lot of space.<\/p>\n<p>Having two modem chips on the SoC is not only ineffective in terms of energy and space, it&#8217;s also costlier. Not to mention that the Balong 5000 on its own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> IHS Markit  has done some extensive research on early 5G adoption using six early 5G-capable smartphones and looked inside. The teardowns revealed that Huawei ended up with a larger, less efficient and more expensive 5G chip than the competition.<\/p>\n<p>S&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/13\/huaweis-5g-modem-is-larger-and-less-efficient-than-qualcomms-a-teardown-reveals\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,453,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,11,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,457,454],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-EvL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155730,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155729\/revisions\/155730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}