Intel announces 5G Solution 5000, 5G network card for Tiger Lake notebook

Intel recently announced the Tiger Lake-Refresh series, which directly pulls the low-voltage mobile CPU to the maximum turbo frequency of 5.0GHz, which is an unprecedented thing. Coincidentally, they also released another “5G” product. It is a 5G network solutions.

Intel actually had a bumpy experience in doing 5G. They did 4G network baseband business for mobile phones a few years ago. It also provided a baseband for Apple iPhone and planned the two companies to cooperate in the development of 5G baseband. Unfortunately, in the end, Apple chose the more advanced Qualcomm baseband.

Intel is no longer willing to engage in 5G basebands for mobile phones and sold them directly to Apple. However, 5G networks are a major market trend after all, and Intel naturally cannot get away completely, so they chose to cooperate with MediaTek later. This time 5G Solution 5000 is the product of cooperation between Intel and MediaTek. The 5G Solution 5000 is actually based on MediaTek’s T700 solution.

In order to cooperate with the Intel Tiger Lake platform and the 5G network connection needs of some notebooks on the Alder Lake platform in the future, the 5G Solution 5000 adopts the PCIe specification M.2 interface card form, supports 5G NR and Sub 6GHz frequency bands, and the maximum upload and download rates are respectively 1250Mbps and 4700Mbps.

As for the actual product, it was handed over to Fibocom for launch. The product model is FM350-GL. Intel will cooperate with operators to promote it in many countries and regions around the world.