Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, February 19th, 2019, I'm Brian McCullough. Today,

Qualcomm unveils its second-gen 5G chip.

Huawei's founder hits back at the US.

His biggest investors pushback at Masa San.

And why emojis are causing problems in increasing numbers of

court cases. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Headlines from our 5G beat. Qualcomm has announced the Snap Dragon X55,

its second generation 5G modem which the company says can achieve maximum download speeds of 7

G BPS up 40% from the 5G BPS that the first generation X 55 could achieve, though as the

Virge notes quote a combination of geography radio interference and

spectrum availability means you're unlikely to see anything close to these theoretical limits

in the real world.

Thankfully, the X55 contains a number of other benefits that aren't specifically

related to speed. Support for adaptive antenna tuning

for sub-6 gigahertz 5g, for example, makes the new chips wireless communication more power efficient.

The X 55 is also compatible with Qualcomm's new physically

smaller millimeter wave antenna module reducing the amount of space required inside the smartphones

that use them.

The first 5G devices will all suffer from a bit of gigantism because they need larger batteries

to feed more power-hungry and bulkier components, and the X55 is an early evolution trying to

address that issue end quote. Qualcomm also wants you to know that the X 55 could

be tailored to a whole range of devices, not just smartphones, anything from laptops to

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