5G mmwave chipset manufacturers | 5G Millimeter wave SoC vendors

This page mentions list of 5G mmwave chipset manufacturers or vendors. The popular manufacturers of 5G mmwave chipsets or SoCs are Samsung, Qualcomm, Analog Devices, MediaTek, Sierra Wireless, Quectel etc.

What is 5G mmwave ?

The fifth generation new radio (5G NR) is the first mobile technology which will make use of mmwave spectrum. It uses frequencies in the millimeter wave range such as 24 GHz, 28 GHz, 39 GHz and higher. The mmwave spectrum provides large bandwidth and hence it can deliver higher data rates. Moreover antennas at these frequencies are very small which can be packed in smaller area and can provide higher gain and beamforming capabilities. There antennas are easily integrated in 5G mobile handsets.

5G NR operates in FR1 and FR2 bands. Sub-GHz frequencies from 450 to 6000 MHz are supported in FR1 band. Millimeter wave frequencies from 24250 to 52600 MHz are supported in FR2 band. FR2 mmwave bands are n257 (26.5 to 29.5 GHz) , n258 (24.250 to 27.500 GHz) , n260 (37 GHz to 40 GHz), n261 ( 27.5 GHz to 28.35 GHz) etc. Typical mmwave components used in 5G NR (New radio) mobile cellular system include mmwave antenna, mmwave transceivers, mmwave RF front ends, mmwave filters, mmwave beamforming ICs etc.

5G mmwave chipset manufacturers

Following table mentions manufacturers of 5G mmwave chipset with part numbers and technical features.

5G mmwave chipset manufacturers	Description
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	The company has developed S8600 and S9100 SoC modems. They can be used with Samsung's 5G RFIC chip to support 24 to 27GHz mmwave spectrum.
Qualcomm	The company offers mmwave antenna modules. Various products such as QTM052, QTM527, QTM535, QTM545 are available. The other products in 5G technology include 5G modem, 5G RF Transceivers and RF front ends, RF front end filters etc.
Analog Devices	The company has developed 5G front end chipset in millimeter wave range. The chipset consists of four ICs out of which two are single channel RF Up/Down converters and two are 16 channel beamformer devices with dual polarisation. These ICs support frequency range from 24 GHz to 47 GHz.
MediaTek Inc.	The company has introduced M80 system on chip which supports both mmwave and sub-6GHz bands.
Sierra Wireless	The module EM9190 supports 5G NR mmwave and sub-6 GHz bands. It also supports 4G LTE Cat-20 bands. As per company it supports 5.5 Gbps peak download rate and 3 Gbps peak upload rate. It supports location services such as GPS, Glonass, Galileo and Beidou.
Quectel China, Canada and Serbia	The RM510Q-GL mmwave module supports Sub-6 GHz and mmwave bands in both SA and NSA modes.
NXP	The company offers beamforming ICs in 5G mmwave bands. The part numbers of beamforming ICs are MMW9002KC, MMW9004KC, MMW9012K, MMW9014K etc.