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Samsung launches RF chipsets for 5G base stations

Samsung’s new RFIC for 5G base stations.
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Samsung has launched new RFICs and DAFE ASICs that go into 5G chipset, the company announced.
The chips will reduce a 5G base station’s size, weight, and power consumption by 25 percent compared to previous iterations, the company said, increasing efficiency and the ability for rollout. They support 28Ghz and 39GHz spectrum bands.
Samsung has rolled out 36,000 5G base stations across the US and South Korea as of this month.
The company said the new RFICs use 28-nanometre CMOS semiconductor technology, and expand bandwidth maximums to 1.4GHz.
It will launch RFICs that support 24GHz and 47GHz bands later this year.
According to Samsung, the 5G DAFE ASIC can “manage large bandwidths of many that are hundreds of MHz” that can reduce the size and power consumption of this operation.
The South Korean tech giant had vowed in November to expand its market share in wireless network equipment to 20 percent by 2020.
The global telecom market is dominated by Huawei but the Chinese tech giant has been embroiled in the US-China trade row due to security concerns that may see its sales in certain countries blocked.
Samsung also plans to focus on the US and South Korea to build a foundation for further global growth, it has said.
South Korea will roll out 5G for consumers next month, with the tech giant planning to begin sales of a 5G version of its foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, in its home country in May.
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10 Apple Vision Pro Features Already Available With Meta Quest

Apple’s headset features a number of high-definition cameras which record the room around you and relay that recording to the device’s impressive screen. As a result, you can see exactly what’s going on in the room, and this can serve as a background to what you’re doing. Once again, however, this innovative feature is already available on Quest headsets, where it is known as Passthrough — although it varies in quality.
Older headsets, like the Quest 1 and Quest 2, use a greyscale Passthrough system, which appears in black and white. The Quest Pro has color Passthrough, though this is the same greyscale system as its predecessors use but with color added before it hits your eyes. As a result, it isn’t what you’d call an HD experience.
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Features Of The Eurofighter Typhoon That Make It One Of The Best Fighter Jets Ever Built

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Equipped with a pair of Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan engines and at a cost of $90 million each, the Eurofighter was also expected to keep pace with the developments such aircraft as the United States’ formidable Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, according to Aerocorner. Alas, its fielding was no easy ride: The collaborative nature of development proved difficult to manage, and certain futuristic elements of the aircraft made its development time-consuming and costly. It wasn’t until 2002 that it began serving the U.K., German, Spanish, and Italian militaries, before being purchased by Austria and Saudi Arabia as well.
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In 2016, Musk claimed at a conference that “a Model S and Model X at this point can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person.” Multiple accidents happened in the years that followed, some allegedly due to issues with the Autopilot system in Tesla cars.
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