Qualcomm has introduced a new mobile Snapdragon X16 LTE modem for smartphones and tablets. According to the manufacturer, the industry’s first mobile modem that supports Gigabit data rate.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE is designed using the 14-nanometer process technology FinFET. He will be the first commercially available LTE modem Cat.16 with the download speed of the network up to 1 Gbps and support aggregation of carrier frequencies 4×20 MHz, and also the first modem with support for LTE Advanced Pro Standart started from 3GPP Release 13 and representing the next stage of development of 4G networks.
In addition, there is support for technologies Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) and LTE-U, which allow you to use alicesinaerie frequency 5 GHz Wi-Fi. Another feature is the concept according Snapdragon All Mode, meaning that support all major cellular technologies, LTE FDD, LTE TDD, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, EV-DO, CDMA 1x, and GSM/EDGE frequency bands, aggregation of carrier frequencies, and so on.