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5G baseband chip is an important communication module in 5G mobile phones, shouldering the heavy responsibility of 5G network signal output, unceremoniously, how the 5G baseband chip performs, related to the user's machine experience.
However, the technical difficulty of developing 5G baseband chips is relatively difficult, and in the field of mobile phone baseband chips, Huawei HiSilicon, MediaTek and Qualcomm can independently develop 5G baseband chips.
Huawei HiSilicon's successor appeared
Nowadays, because of the ban, Huawei's self-developed Baron 5000 baseband chip cannot be mass-produced, so MediaTek and Qualcomm's 5G baseband chips have become the mainstream of the market.
But the good news is that a successor to Huawei HiSilicon has been born in the mainland chip field. On February 8, mobile phone China news, the domestic chip company Aojie Technology independently developed 5G baseband communication chip has been successfully tape-out, and this chip has entered the testing stage, if there is no accident, this 5G baseband chip will be mass-produced this year.
According to public information, the performance of the 5G baseband chip independently developed by Aojie Technology is not weak, supporting NSA/SA two modes, the maximum uplink rate can reach 2.3Gbps, and the downlink rate can reach 4.6Gbps.
Judging from the indicators of this 5G baseband chip alone, the performance has been comparable to Huawei HiSilicon's self-developed Baron 5000 baseband chip and MediaTek's T750 baseband chip.
It should be known that the well-known mobile phone giant Apple has been working hard to develop 5G baseband chips, but the research and development results are not ideal, while Aojie Technology has achieved breakthroughs in 5G baseband chips, and its strength should not be underestimated.
The industry has a huge impact
In fact, the successful development of 5G baseband chips by Aojie Technology is of great significance to the entire domestic mobile phone industry. As we all know, at present, major mobile phone giants have entered the chip track, such as Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo have launched simple chip products.
According to the xiaomi OV's plan in terms of chips, sooner or later in the future, system-level mobile phone chips will be developed to completely get rid of the dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek.
But what needs to be understood is that the difficulty of developing chips is not small, a system-level mobile phone chip, including NPU, CPU, GPU, ISP and other modules, and a complete 5G mobile phone chip, the internal also needs to integrate 5G baseband chip, for mobile phone manufacturers who have just entered the chip track, in the process of developing 5G mobile phone chips, to overcome many technical problems.
However, the 5G baseband chip developed by Aojie Technology can completely help domestic mobile phone manufacturers reduce the difficulty of developing chips, because they can buy 5G baseband chips in the hands of Aojie Technology and integrate them into their own chip products.
At the same time, the 5G baseband chip of Aojie Technology also provides a second chip solution for Huawei, even if the self-developed Balong baseband cannot be produced, it can also be purchased from Aojie Technology.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the main baseband chip, Aojie Technology also involves non-cellular Internet of Things chips and AI chips, and up to now, the company has achieved mass production of 25 commercial chips.
Moreover, the chip products of Aojie Technology have entered the supply chain system of State Grid Enterprises, ZTE, 360 and other enterprises.
In general, the strength of Aojie Technology in the field of chips should not be underestimated.
Write to the end
The technical research and development threshold of baseband chips is high, which requires a lot of capital investment and technical reserves, and Aojie Technology has been initially successful.
However, it should be noted that with the rapid development of the Internet of Things and the smart phone industry, the application scenarios of baseband chips will be further expanded, for Aojie Technology, it is both an opportunity and a challenge, and the opportunity is naturally that the market provides a large enough development space for Aojie Technology; the challenge is the pressure from competitors, such as Qualcomm, MediaTek and other giants, the strength in the baseband market cannot be underestimated, so if Aojie Technology wants to gain a firm foothold in the baseband market, it is necessary to accelerate the technical iteration of baseband chips and enhance the competitiveness of its own products.