Today, MediaTek has announced a new M80 5G modem. From the company's newsroom, the M80 5G modem is able to support mmWave and Sub-6 GHz 5G networks. With both standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) architectures, it can achieve a peak speed of up to 7.67Gbps.
The 7.67Gbps refers to the download speed wheres in the upload speed, it's 3.76Gbps. On top of that, The M80 can also support dual 5G SUM, dual 5G NSA and SA networks, and dual Voice over New Radio. Obviously, that means we will be seeing these on future smartphones where having 5G connectivity is becoming a norm now, but it's also usable for PCs, Mi-Fi hotspots, broadband customer premise equipment (CPE), industrial IoT applications and others.
MediaTek also mentioned that customers will get to experience the M80 sometime later in 2021. On top of that, they listed down a full range of radio access technologies for operators around the world:
- 3GPP Release 16 standard
- Sub-6 GHz and mmWave dual connectivity and carrier aggregation
- 5G NR (FR1) with carrier aggregation
- 5G mmWave (FR2) up to 8CC
- 5G carrier aggregation with Mixed Duplex (TDD + FDD)
- Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) ready
If you want to read more about the M80 modem, you can visit their newsroom right over here to learn more. Stay tuned for more trending tech news at TechNave.com.
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