THE NEVER-ENDING QUEST FDR BRNDWIDTH

摘要

You can tell that Shannon's Law provides little further scope for improving cellular bandwidth: it's forcing the architects of what will form the 6G cellular standard to consider all manner of options. The possibilities range from AI-enabled base stations to airships and a spectrum range that may top out in the terahertz, as long as electronics can keep up with the pace of change. At the 6GWorld Symposium, Paul Hart, NXP Semiconductors' general manager of radio power electronics, described the problems that the cellular industry now faces as the inexorable rise of data traffic and the power that traffic consumes comes into conflict with the need to reduce energy consumption across the board. "The current network is consuming twice the power of LTE networks a decade ago," he added.