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  • shabby - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    "5G is poised to unleash a new level of computing and connectivity that will transform the way we interact with the world"
    They forgot the asterisk * only when you're next to a mmWave tower.
  • Eliadbu - Sunday, December 1, 2019 - link

    5G has both mm-Wave and sub 6 GHz implementations, while high throughput will be achieved with mm-Wave under ideal conditions. sub 6 GHz implementation will also achieve higher throughput than 4G, I'm for the option of having cellular modem in PCs, using your phone as a hotspot is not the best solution.
  • yannigr2 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Big win for Mediatek.
  • yeeeeman - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Qualcomm doesn't have any interest to give their modems to Intel since they compete in the PC space. As for Samsung, I guess they were more expensive than Huawei so that is it.
  • yeeeeman - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Sorry, I have read Huawei instead of mediatek. Hmm, I don't know what to say about mediatek, but in 4g they are quite good.
  • klagermkii - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Qualcomm charges a percentage of the final device cost as a royalty, which is a nightmare if you stick one of their modems into something expensive like a laptop. This is part of what Apple's complaint about Qualcomm was, as they also sell some pretty expensive phones.
  • nicmonson - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    It only does that for cheaper devices to compete in cheaper phone area (400 and below). All iphones are way above that dollar so what you mention about Apple does not apply. The same would apply to laptops. The comment from yeeeeman sounds more inline with why they chose not to work with each other.
  • webdoctors - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Will this help with reception? I go to Costco and I get no signal. I'd be happy with 3G if 4G gets me 0Bps
  • shabby - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Costco and any other retailer should be providing free WiFi if cell reception is that poor inside.
  • rahvin - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    If you are daring enough to use open WiFi like that I hope you're smart enough to be using a VPN and encrypting all traffic across the VPN.
  • Morawka - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Mediatek is a fabless semiconductor designer. I'm curious as to who will actually manufacturer these modems and at what node.
  • khanikun - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    I'm guessing companies with their own fabs will manufacture their own with license agreements, while TSMC will manufacture for other fabless companies. I'm just guessing, as I have no idea who is doing what in terms of fabs.
  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link

    I just don't see a lot of mainstream use cases for cellular connectivity in PC form factors. Everyone has a phone and though it's typically a Google f*ck-your-privacy-up-the-ass creeper data mining Android POS, you can typically get computing tasks done using it rather than dragging along a laptop anyway. After all, it isn't like Microsoft respects your privacy either since they turned WIndows into a user monetization platform in order to be just as screwed up as Google.
  • Smartcom5 - Thursday, December 19, 2019 - link

    This here must be another harsh yet evident brick in the wall for every keen observer …

    Since while Intel doesn't get tired to propagate they wouldn't have left the mobile wireless-market after having sold their mobile wireless-division to Apple – and that they would be still a major player in that Internet of Things-bubble (which is still awaited since a while) and other Always-on- and Connected-everywhere- classes of devices (like on their Project Athena-class notebooks with their Always-connected-ability), they're doing the exact contrary again;

    Leaving the mobile wireless-market altogether, by auction off the remaining technology-assets and patents for exactly this classes of devices they claim they will and would be empowering in any future – and starting some collaboration and partnership with MediaTek instead, which is aimed to… *wait for it* … Bringing 5G to PCs!

    I'm really the only one seeing Intel saying one thing while doing the exact opposite here again – and that it only seems like that behaviour of theirs runs like a golden/common/guiding thread through all of their latest actions since quite a while, or am I? Right?!

    I wouldn't be at all surprised if Intel has laid some eyes upon MediaTek itself to get their act finally together on anything 5G after their series of underwhelming engagements on this scope and field of interest – and that this very collaboration is just some ballon d'essai for exploring options for a Intel-acquisition and later take-over on MediaTek.
  • JayNor - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link

    Intel stated they have an LTE modem chiplet that can go in their Lakefield Foveros stack. I'm wondering if MediaTek will build a compatible chiplet version of 5G modem for Intel. That makes sense to me since Intel said there are more versions of Lakefield in development.

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