Samsung and ARM starts working on 6G mobile data

South Korean tech firm Samsung and British semiconductor company ARM have already started working on 6G mobile data. As global states and developers devices plan to take the lead in the next-generation wireless technology, it’s likely that the 6G network will come forth sooner rather than later.

Notably, this comes after four Japanese consortiums built a prototype 6G device and achieved 100 Gbps speed. In its wake, Samsung and ARM, two other prominent global tech brands have further strengthened their own progress for 6G.

Talking of mobile data, we need to rewind back to 2001 when 3G brought incredible changes. It made video calls possible on mobile devices, to say the least. Then came 4G in 2009 which made phones capable of streaming and downloading/uploading large-size files. Ten years later, various states heralded a new era in wireless cellular communication with 5G. But as many states continue to trial and launch the network commercial, 4G remains a mainstream network for the world barring a few. But still, work on 6G is already gathering pace. In this, Samsung and ARM are trying to lay their early foundation for the lightning-speed 6G network.

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Samsung and ARM to find solutions to achieve surreal 6G speed

6G is expected to deliver speed up to 1 Tbps, let’s not compare because that’s quite a lot, thanks to terahertz frequency. However, challenges remain to get those mind-boggling speeds with the rightful software being one of the hurdles. Samsung and ARM seek to address that with their cooperation.

Apparently, Samsung and ARM are working on parallel packet processing. As the throughput is data transmission is going to be so high, only a parallel processing solution is thought to process it in real time. To facilitate this part of 6G, both these firms intend to launch an open-source project that will make the software free forever.  

Currently, many tech firms and states believe that 6G will come by 2030, however, there is no surety of how this will look like and what it’s capable of. The applications could involve new use cases such as IoT, self-driving cars, metaverse, AR, VR, AI, smart home, telemedicine, etc. 5G is supposed to do that but 6G will be an extension with more performance caliber.  It’s also possible that the cooperation between Samsung and ARM could push the expected 6G timeline by a few years. We can hope that 6G will deliver on its promises not as slow and bleak as 5G has shown so far.

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