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| [* black] Notably absent from our initial chip findings is the ''[http://www.hisilicon.com/en/Products/ProductList/Balong|Balong 5000|new_window=true]'', HiSilicon's multi-mode networking chipset that is supposed to be the powerhouse of this 5G cell. | |
| [* black] On a hunch, we coarsely chisel off the extra Samsung LPDDR4 chip to find … | |
| [* red] HiSilicon Hi9500 GFCV101! This is most likely the Balong 5000 we're looking for. | |
| [* orange] Just to be sure, we pry up the Micron memory chip as well. Sure enough, underneath slumbers the HiSilicon Hi3680 GFCV150, also known as Kirin 980. | |
| + | [* icon_caution] Our [product|IF317-005-1|hot air station] had the day off. Deal with it. |
| [* icon_note] It looks like the 5G modem comes bundled with its own block of dedicated LPDDR4X memory—a whopping 3 GB of it, if we've decoded those Samsung package markings in the previous step correctly. Is that a giant data buffer? This is the first 5G modem we've seen in the wild, so sound off in the comments if you know more than we do. |