Qualcomm has been the global unit and revenue market share leader for years in modem technologies used in smartphones, tablets, PCs and IoT (Internet of Things). One of the reasons they have maintained this lead for so long is that they are typically first to market with new generations of modems. Today at their investor conference, they announced their latest and greatest LTE modem capable of gigabit-class speeds, specifically 1 Gbps, which translates to “Category (Cat.) 16” LTE according to the 3GPP standards. This is also the first modem that fits into the class of ‘LTE Advanced Pro’, which is the next step in LTE modem technologies and is a move towards the 5G future with gigabit-class connectivity. This new modem also brings a lot of industry firsts, even for Qualcomm, which include the first Cat. 16 LTE modem, the first LTE Advanced Pro modem, the first modem to support LAA (Licensed-Assisted Access) and the first discrete modem built on the 14nm FinFET process as well as a new modem architecture.

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