Most Smartphones Sub-6 GHz, Which Apple Is Changing: DSCC CEO
Most 5G smartphones shipped in 2020 were sub-6 GHz only “due to the lack of millimeter-wave coverage,” Display Supply Chain Consultants CEO Ross Young told the virtual Display Market Outlook Conference Wednesday. Of the mmWave phones introduced before the debut…
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of the iPhone 12, virtually all were targeted for the U.S. market and had a $100 “cost adder, typically,” he said. “But Apple outfitted all U.S. iPhone 12s with mmWave and sub-6 GHz without a cost penalty, which is boosting investment in mmWave and its outlook.” DSCC is forecasting the mmWave plus sub-6 GHz 5G “configuration” in smartphones will reach better than a 25% share in Q4, he said.