summary
- 6G is inevitable, offering speeds of 1TB/s, and Samsung and Arm are working on parallel processing to process massive amounts of data.
- The rollout of 6G networks will come sooner than expected, potentially revolutionizing AI capabilities and enabling dense IoT product communications.
- Samsung and Arm are laying the foundation for 6G through open source projects, leveraging their collective knowledge into the free software base.
The smartphone era we enjoy today was made possible with the introduction of 3G networks in 2001. Things really started to pick up when 4G and mobile streaming video began to emerge in 2009. A decade later, with an ever-increasing demand for data, 5G began to be introduced. But humans’ thirst for data won’t last long, and Samsung and Arm are hard at work laying the foundation for the next generation of mobile data.
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6G is inevitable, even if the data speeds it offers aren’t essential yet. Nothing is set in stone at this point, but the consensus online seems to be that 6G will offer speeds of around 1 terabyte per second (roughly 30 Blu-ray movies per second). To process that much data, new software will need to be invented. And that’s the problem Samsung Research and Arm are trying to tackle.
The solution they are working on is called Parallel Packet Processing. Essentially, the throughput of data is so high that only a parallel processing solution could potentially process it in real time. To enable the foundation of future 6G networks, Samsung and Arm plan to launch an open source project that will leverage the knowledge commons and ensure that the software foundation is free forever.
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Current estimates put the launch of 6G networks around 10 years from now, but Samsung and Arm hope to bring that timeline forward with their parallel packet processing efforts. There is no way to know exactly what 6G will be like or what it will be used for, but we have some ideas. The most obvious is AI. AI involves moving huge amounts of data, and speeds of up to 1TB/sec with microsecond latency will make cloud-based AI on smartphones much easier. We also expect to see an increase in the density of IoT products. Self-driving cars will need to communicate with each other and with networks, and 6G will help make that happen. Personally, I can’t wait for Skynet to remotely control my car.
