Smartphones need a lot of components to operate, but two key parts that make a phone a phone are the ... taps into super-fast but unreliable millimeter-wave airwaves favored by Verizon and the ...

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Qualcomm's modems are used in nearly every high-end phone in the US ... The X65 achieves "10 gigabits" by using 10, 100MHz millimeter-wave channels, along with up to four channels of sub-6GHz ...

BARCELONA—As the rise of AI threatens to push bandwidth consumption ever upwards, Qualcomm ... then the millimeter-wave bands that only Verizon makes much use of in the US. Many phone ...

HAWAII—Qualcomm execs today teased ... of 5G technologies used in the US—millimeter-wave, mid-band TDD, and low-band FDD—but the initial round of X55 phones, which use the Qualcomm 855 ...

The Snapdragon X75 5G modem-RF system supports the next wave of 5G advances and should help your phone connect to the ... the stuff 5G is supposed to do. Qualcomm has done a little space-saving ...

Apple does not want its "budget" phone to be worse than ... there is more to a cellular modem than millimeter-wave support. There's also no denying that Qualcomm does it better.

Chip designer Qualcomm on Wednesday forecast sales and profit in the current quarter would exceed Wall Street estimates as the company benefits from a wave of launches of flagship Chinese smartphones.