MediaTek announces the first mobile chipset with an integrated 5G modem

Most of the news that comes out of Computex each year doesn't really apply to Android, but today MediaTek has formally revealed a new high-end chipset for phones with a serious 5G twist: The new (apparently unnamed) 7nm SoC is the first to be announced with an integrated 5G modem.

Current 5G solutions by Qualcomm and Samsung make use of external modems, which work fine, but they suck down a lot of juice, sort of like the early LTE phones did with their external modems.

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