The

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the devel ...

XMM modems are a series of 4G

LTE LTE may refer to: Science and technology * LTE (telecommunication) (Long-Term Evolution), a telephone and mobile broadband standard ** LTE Advanced, an enhancement *** LTE Advanced Pro * Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers produced by Compaq * ...

LTE Advanced LTE Advanced (LTE+) is a mobile communication standard and a major enhancement of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. It was formally submitted as a candidate 4G to ITU-T in late 2009 as meeting the requirements of the IMT-Advanced standard ...

, LTE Advanced Pro and 5G

modems A modulator-demodulator or modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio. A modem transmits data by modulating one or more carr ...

found in many phones, tablets, laptops and wearables (sans 5g-technology) developed by

Intel Mobile Communications Intel Mobile Communications (IMC), is the mobile research and development division of Intel. It was formed when Intel completed the acquisition of the Wireless Solutions (WLS) division of Infineon early in 2011 for US$1.4 billion. The Infineon sub ...

was formed after

acquired the Wireless Solutions (WLS) division of

Infineon Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicond ...

early in 2011 for US$1.4 billion. On April 16, 2019,

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and Qualcomm reached a settlement which included Apple paying an unspecified amount, entering into a six-year patent licensing agreement, and a multi-year agreement for Qualcomm to provide hardware to Apple. Shortly after Intel announced they will exit the 5G smartphone modem business to focus 5G efforts on network infrastructure. On July 25, 2019,

and

announced an agreement for

to acquire

' smartphone modem business for US$1 billion. Intel will continue to develop modems for non-smartphones such as

PCs A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose microcomputer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or techn ...

Internet of things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

and

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. On November 25, 2019,

MediaTek MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia p ...

and

announced a partnership to bring 5G to

in 2021.

5G modems

Intel XMM 8160 5G modem

* Protocols:

5G NR 5G NR (New Radio) is a new radio access technology (RAT) developed by 3GPP for the 5G (fifth generation) mobile network. It was designed to be the global standard for the air interface of 5G networks. As with 4G (LTE), it is based on OFDM. Th ...

NSA & SA, EN-DC, LTE NR dual-connectivity, Legacy 2G/3G/4G modes, FDD/TDD * Single Chip Multi-mode support * Downlink speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s * Sub-6 GHz and 26/28/39 GHz mmWave * Intel 10nm process * Cancelled as of April 16, 2019

Intel XMM 8060 5G modem

* Protocols:

NSA & SA, EN-DC, LTE NR dual-connectivity, Legacy 2G/3G/4G modes, FDD/TDD * Multi-mode support * Downlink speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s * Sub-6 GHz and 26/28/39 GHz mmWave * Intel 14 nm process * Cancelled as of November 14, 2018

4G modems

Intel XMM 7660 modem

* Protocols:

LTE Advanced Pro LTE Advanced (LTE+) is a mobile communication standard and a major enhancement of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. It was formally submitted as a candidate 4G to ITU-T in late 2009 as meeting the requirements of the IMT-Advanced standar ...

, FDD/TDD, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, GSM/GPRS, CDMA/EVDO, LAA, CBRS * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 19 (1600 Mbit/s). 7x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 256-QAM. Up to 4x4 MIMO * Uplink LTE: LTE Category 13 (225 Mbit/s). 3x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 64-QAM * Support of more than 45 (4G/LTE) bands simultaneously * Featured in:

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, 11 Pro/11 Pro Max, iPhone SE 2 * Intel 14nm+ FinFET process * Released Q3 2019

Intel XMM 7560 modem

* Protocols: LTE Advanced Pro, FDD/TDD, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, GSM/GPRS, CDMA/EVDO * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 16 (1000 Mbit/s). 5x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 256-QAM. Up to 4x4 MIMO * Uplink LTE: LTE Category 13 (150 Mbit/s). 2x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 64-QAM * Support of more than 35 (4G/LTE) bands simultaneously * Featured in: iPhone XS/XS Max/ XR,

iPad Pro (2018) The third generation of iPad Pro is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Two models, with a 12.9 inch or 11 inch screen, were both announced on October 30, 2018, and were available to purchase on No ...

, HP Spectre Folio * Intel 14nm process * Released Q3 2018 * Fibocom L860-GL

Intel XMM 7480 modem

* Protocols:

, FDD/TDD, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, GSM/GPRS * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 12 (600 Mbit/s). 4x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 256-QAM * Uplink LTE: LTE Category 13 (150 Mbit/s). 1x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Up to 64-QAM * Featured in:

iPhone X The iPhone X (Roman numeral "X" pronounced "ten", also known as iPhone 10) is a smartphone designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is part of the 11th generation of the iPhone. Available for pre-order from October 27, 2017, it was rel ...

iPhone 8 The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. They along with the iPhone X make up the 11th generation of the iPhone. The iPhone 8 was released on September 22, 2017, succeeding the iPhone 7 and ...

(some model used Snapdragon X16 LTE Modem). * TSMC 28nm process * Released Q3 2017 *

iPhone 8 Plus The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. They along with the iPhone X make up the 11th generation of the iPhone. The iPhone 8 was released on September 22, 2017, succeeding the iPhone 7 ...

Intel XMM 7360 modem

* Protocols: LTE Advanced, FDD/TDD, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 10 (450 Mbit/s). 3x20 MHz carrier aggregation. * Uplink LTE: 50 Mbit/s * Featured in:

iPhone 7 The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are smartphones that were designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. They are the tenth generation of the iPhone. They were announced on September 7, 2016, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San ...

(some model used Snapdragon X12 LTE Modem), HP Envy x2 * TSMC 28nm process * Released Q3 2016 *

iPhone 7 Plus The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are smartphones that were designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. They are the tenth generation of the iPhone. They were announced on September 7, 2016, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San ...

, Fibocom L850-GL

Intel XMM 7260/7262 modem

* Protocols: LTE Advanced, FDD/TDD, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 6 (300 Mbit/s). 2x20 MHz carrier aggregation. * Uplink LTE: 50 Mbit/s * Featured in:

Microsoft Surface 3 Surface 3 is a 2-in-1 detachable from the Microsoft Surface series, introduced by Microsoft in 2015. Unlike its predecessor, the Surface 2, Surface 3 utilizes an x86 Intel Atom system-on-chip architecture, or SoC, rather than a processor ...

* Released Q2 2015 * Fibocom L830

Intel XMM 7160 modem

* Protocols:

LTE-FDD In telecommunications, long-term evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/ EDGE and UMTS/HSPA standards. It improves on those standards' capacity and speed ...

and DC-HSPA+ * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 4 (150 Mbit/s) * Uplink LTE: 50 Mbit/s * Featured in:

Samsung Galaxy S5 The Samsung Galaxy S5 is an Android-based smartphone unveiled, produced, released and marketed by Samsung Electronics as part of the Samsung Galaxy S series. Unveiled on 24 February 2014 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it was rele ...

* Released Q2 2014 *

Telit Telit is an Internet of Things (IoT) Enabler company headquartered in Irvine, CA, USA. It is a privately held company with key operations in the US, Brazil, Italy, Israel, and Korea. Overview Telit is an IoT Enabler providing IoT modules, edge ...

LN930

Intel XMM 7120M modem

* Protocols: LTE FDD and DC-HSPA+ * Downlink LTE: LTE Category 1 (10 Mbit/s) * Uplink LTE: LTE Category 1 (5 Mbit/s). * Featured in: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 * Released Q2 2013

3G and 2G modems

* Intel XMM 6260 (

HSPA+ Evolved High Speed Packet Access, HSPA+, HSPA (Plus) or HSPAP, is a technical standard for wireless broadband telecommunication. It is the second phase of HSPA which has been introduced in 3GPP release 7 and being further improved in later 3GPP ...

) * Intel XMM 6255/6255M (

HSPA HSPA may refer to: * High Speed Packet Access, a mobile broadband technology * Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Education * High School Proficiency Assessment * Humphrey School of Public Affairs, an American public policy school * Hunter Sch ...

) * Intel XMM 6140 (HSPA) * Intel XMM 2250/2230 modem (

EDGE Edge or EDGE may refer to: Technology Computing * Edge computing, a network load-balancing system * Edge device, an entry point to a computer network * Adobe Edge, a graphical development application * Microsoft Edge, a web browser developed b ...

) * Intel XMM 1180 modem (

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as ...

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Inst ...

) * Intel XMM 1100 modem (GSM/GPRS)

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* Balong Modems by

HiSilicon HiSilicon () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 ...

* Exynos Modems by

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* Helio M Modems by

* Makalu/SC Modems by Unisoc (formally Spreadtrum) * Snapdragon Modems by Qualcomm

References

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