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5G technology is in the ascendant, and the 6G era is coming.

At the recent 2023 6G Development Conference, Wang Zhiqin, deputy director of the 6G Propulsion Group of the China Academy of Information and Communications, said that 6G technology will be standardized by 2025 and commercially available around 2030. Talking about China's 6G progress, Zhang Yunming, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has guided the establishment of a 6G promotion group to provide policy guarantee for 6G innovation and development and promote the formation of 6G global standards.

When it comes to 6G, the most basic cognition is that it will be very fast, but obviously, 6G is more than just fast.

From quantitative change to qualitative change, 6G is subversive.

Mobile communication technology will basically be updated in about a decade. Since the 1980s, it has gone from 1G analog voice era, 2G digital voice era, 3G CDMA era, 4G LTE era, to 5G formal commercial use in 2020, and iterated to the "Internet of everything era".

As the fifth generation mobile communication technology, 5G has the technical characteristics of high speed, low delay, large capacity and high reliability. therefore, with the help of 5G technology, people, processes, data and things can be connected more closely. collide with unprecedented business opportunities and industrial innovation possibilities. At present, 5G technology has been widely used in a variety of industries, including smart city, intelligent transportation, wisdom and so on. It plays an important role in serving production and life, solving industrial digital pain points, and helping the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

According to the Digital China Development report (2022) released by the State Internet Information Office, by the end of 2022, China had opened 2.312 million 5G base stations, with 561 million 5G users, accounting for more than 60 percent of the global total, and 1.845 billion mobile animal networking end users, becoming the first country in the world to achieve "thing Superman". According to the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of September, 5G applications had been integrated into 67 major categories of the national economy, there were more than 7000 "5G + Industrial Internet" projects nationwide, and the total number of mobile animal networking terminals reached 2.22 billion.

5G is good, but not without defects. On the one hand, 5G not only provides the characteristics of high speed, low latency and Dalian connection, but also faces the problems of over-commitment, over-configuration and high cost, which leads to the commercial application of 5G has not met the expectations. On the other hand, with the deepening of the application of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data technology, the "Internet of everything" of 5G is gradually evolving to the "Smart Internet", and the upgrading of mobile communication technology is imperative. This is a process of adding more water to noodles and more water to noodles.

It is estimated that the communication capacity of 6G will be more than 10 times that of 5G, and as a new generation of mobile communication technology, 6G is not only a simple upgrade of 5G, but also a new communication paradigm. It will bring people a more intelligent and convenient communication experience with ultra-high speed, ultra-low latency, large-scale connection and intelligent interaction. At the same time, 6G will also realize the deep integration of the Internet of things, artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies. Let the Internet of everything move towards "intelligent ubiquity, digital twins".

Dr. Huang Ying, vice president of Lenovo and head of the 5G laboratory of Lenovo Research Institute, predicted at the Forum of 6G Vision and key driving Forces of the NWC Shanghai World Mobile Communications Conference held this year that 6G will lead people into a more universal intelligent world, which can effectively improve people's lifestyle, improve work efficiency, and bring users a more diversified, personalized and digital experience. It includes immersive XR experience, holographic communication, sensory interconnection, intelligent interaction, communication perception, inclusive intelligence, digital twinning, cooperative robot and so on.

The communications industry has been following the development pace of "using generation, building generation, R & D generation". In fact, 6G is not far away from us.

Since the beginning of this year, China has successively issued "6G Network Architecture Prospect" and "6G Wireless system Design principles and typical characteristics" and other technical schemes, pointing out the technological path for the development of 6G. Five typical 6G scenarios and 14 key capability indicators proposed in June have all been adopted by the ITU 6G vision requirements recommendations. The IMT-2023 (6G) Promotion Group has signed a memorandum of cooperation with a number of countries.

At the policy level, the outline of the 14th five-year Plan and the Digital economy Development Plan of the 14th five-year Plan clearly put forward the forward-looking layout of the reserve of 6G network technology, and require increased support for the research and development of 6G technology. actively participate in promoting 6G international standardization.

The sound of the 6G era is clearly audible and the starting gun has been fired.

Lenovo Group's 5G+6G route is more advantageous in promoting 6G to compete for the best.

Huge capacity, hyperlinks, universal applications. The prospect that 6G shows to the industry is extremely attractive, but if it is to be really realized, it needs transformative and subversive technical support.

In the Lenovo 5G / 6G White Paper (2020 Edition) released in 2021, Lenovo Research Institute pointed out that 6G will be driven by a series of new technologies, including not only new processes and materials in the physical layer, new devices, new frequency bands (terahertz), new duplex modes, new electromagnetic wave propagation modes, etc., but also space-to-earth integrated networks, ubiquitous intelligence and trusted networks in the network layer.

As a revolutionary mobile communication technology driving "Smart Internet", 6G must meet a series of super technical specifications in order to support potential new application scenarios, such as immersive XR and mobile holographic applications, remote, self-driving and so on.

According to Lenovo's white paper, 6G needs to meet a peak data rate of up to 1Tbps and a user experience rate of 1Gbps, an empty port delay of less than 100 μ s and an end-to-end delay of small 1ms. In order to meet the needs of extremely high reliability applications such as remote surgery and industrial automation, the block error rate should not be less than 10-7, and to meet the massive link requirements covering the Internet of things, the connection density should not be less than 107 / km2.

There is no doubt that it is not easy to break through 6G technology. for the industry, we should not only look up to the 6G starry sky, but also step on the ground of 5G, which is a prerequisite for the development of 6G. At a time when all the major manufacturers are launching 6G, Lenovo Group, which has 6G forward-looking deployment and 5G mature technology, has more outstanding advantages.

In the 6G field, Lenovo Group has actively cut into the 6G track through the combination of industry cooperation and self-research breakthroughs.

The IMT-2030 (6G) Promotion Group mentioned by Zhang Yunming, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, aims to bring together the strength of China's industry-university-research, promote China's sixth-generation mobile communication technology research and carry out international exchanges and cooperation. Lenovo Group is one of the members. In addition, Lenovo Group has signed a large number of cooperation projects with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, and the landing application of 6G technology is one of the directions of exploration.

In terms of technological breakthroughs, Lenovo has also launched related research. In addition to laying out emerging hot technologies such as empathy Integration (ISAC), Intelligent Endogenous Networks, Reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces (RIS) and Terahertz, Lenovo also focuses on reconfigurable smart surfaces, computing networks and secure endogenous networks as key self-research goals.

The breakthrough of 6G technology is also inseparable from the thorough understanding of 5G technology. Lenovo Group, as a typical representative of "data-reality integration", 5G capability has a reputation in the industry.

Over the years, Lenovo Group, relying on the "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence" new IT technology architecture, has begun to build a digital base, upgrade infrastructure, build a technology center and build a business center that includes the whole value chain. On the basis of building a digital base, Lenovo Group has also precipitated and built an intelligent IT engine with the characteristics of Zhongtai, cloud origin and embedded AI, which builds a new intelligent transformation engine for itself and Qianhang Baiye.

From manufacturing to education, in the rich scene, Lenovo Group continuously outputs intelligent productivity for industry intelligent upgrading, and the application of 5G technology is getting better, whether as the backbone of equipment terminals, 5G cloud base stations, MEC software platforms, MEC hardware and other network equipment, or vertical industry solutions such as 5G + intelligent manufacturing, 5G + smart park, 5G+V2X vehicle-road coordination, etc. Lenovo Group has performed well.

At this year's MWC World Mobile Communications Conference in Shanghai, Lenovo announced its latest achievements in the field of 5G: Lenovo is committed to exploring 5G wireless protocols and algorithms, 5G test certification and 5G network architecture, generating high-performance algorithms and wireless transmission systems, participating in the formulation of 5G international standards, and creating a competitive necessary patent pool for 5G standards. At present, the number of necessary patent applications for Lenovo 5G standard has exceeded 2400.

In June 2022, the International Telecommunication Union radio organization completed the first technical research report for 6G, marking a preliminary consensus on the development of 6G around the world. combined with the latest developments of China's 6G disclosed at the 2023 6G Development Conference recently, the future of the 6G era is already very strong, and the next three to five years will be the key window period for the 6G layout. How does Lenovo Group, which has the full stack technology capability of the new IT and tight 6G layout, perform in this speed and network competition? It's worth looking forward to.

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