Designing 5G Into Cars Requires ‘Major Architectural Shift,’ Says Qualcomm
As Qualcomm starts to deploy 5G in the automotive sector over the next 12-18 months, “we are seeing really a complete overhaul in terms of how automakers are thinking about the connectivity portion of electronics in their vehicle,” said Nakul…
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Duggal, senior vice president-general manager, automotive, at a virtual Deutsche Bank investor conference Wednesday. “The antennas have to be designed differently,” he said. “You basically have to have four different antenna elements for transmit and receive that requires the car design to change to be able to accommodate that type of capability. The location of where you put the modem becomes important because of the distance from the antenna.” The electronics need to be “closer to the roof line” to prevent signal loss, he said: “This is really a major architectural shift for a lot of different automakers.” That expands Qualcomm's role from the supplier of the semiconductors “to become kind of the adviser for the system platform for the automaker,” he said.