Everyone is quite looking forward to the arrival of 5g network. 5g network application will be officially ushered in in 2019. What are the business opportunities of 5g network? In 2019, all walks of life will face new business opportunities! Let's get to know.
Since 2017, the introduction of smart phones without killer applications or functions has significantly prolonged the trend of switching. However, as the world is speeding up to the 5g era, we believe that the gradual popularity of 5g will not only promote smart phones to repeat the huge demand for switching 3G to 4G, but also drive new applications related to the Internet of things such as self driving, industry 4.0, smart medicine, etc., and promote the next technology industry Wave killer kinetic energy.
According to IDC, a market research organization, the global smartphone market fell by 0.3% in 2017, and it is estimated that the shipment volume will continue to fall by 0.2% to 1462 million in 2018. But it will stop falling and recover in 2019, and grow by 3%. It is expected that the global smartphone shipments will reach 1654 million in 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of 2.5% from 2018 to 2022.
5g will provide a higher speed and larger broadband mobile networking experience than 4G, and the transmission speed is 1g to 10g BPs, which is 10 to 100 times of 4G. In addition to the characteristics of high-speed transmission, 5g also has the functions of low transmission delay and large-scale networking, which can fully support the application scenarios that 4G could not achieve in the past, such as remote medical, automatic driving, industrial automation and other applications that need low signal delay or large-scale interconnection.
In June this year, the international telecommunication standard setting organization passed the R15 mobile communication technology standard, symbolizing that 5g is about to enter the important milestone of business transformation. At the same time, according to the mobile trend report released by Ericsson, there will be the first smart phone supporting 5g if in the world at the beginning of 2019, and there will be an opportunity to launch 5g mobile phones supporting UHF from the beginning of 2019 to the middle of 2019. Telecom operators want to build a general 5g network with a coverage rate of 4G, and the investment amount may be twice that of 4G, which implies that the upstream chips, base stations, Netcom equipment and optical communication driven by 5g infrastructure will generate huge business opportunities. In addition, the communication modules required for handheld devices such as smart phones driven by 5g will also present business opportunities for specification upgrading.
In the early stage of infrastructure construction equipment, we believe that small cell will benefit preferentially. According to the estimation of Tuolong Industrial Research Institute, the installed capacity of global small cell will reach 2.838 million in 2018, and grow to 4.329 million in 2019, with an annual growth of 53%. In addition, the global chip industry has begun to invest in the chip development of 5g base station, and the wafer generation industry that produces 7Nm will have the first advantage.
Because 5g is transmitted by high frequency millimeter wave, communication devices such as smart phones will be equipped with high frequency millimeter wave antennas that have not been widely used before. At the same time, 5g will also change the relevant components between the RF front end and the antenna of the mobile phone, including filters, power amplifiers, diplexers, RF switches, etc. In addition, high-frequency mesh pass plate will also promote the demand of high-order copper foil substrate and copper foil.