Neowin News Feed for: 6g

Intel explains why its latest and upcoming Xeon CPUs are great for 5G and 6G

Sayan Sen — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:09:54 +0000

Intel has highlighted its plans for how it will help the world and major telecom companies adopt to high speed 5G as well as 6G with the help of its Xeon platform. Read more...

MIT sees astonishing light-speed 6G processing with its new "100 times faster" chip

Sayan Sen — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:28:01 +0000

MIT's pioneering optical AI chip uses photonics and the power of light-speed, promising way better 6G speeds. Read more...

South Korea plans to launch the first 6G network in 2028

Justin Luna — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:20:01 +0000

South Korea aims to become the first country to launch a 6G network in 2028. The plan is two years earlier than the original schedule as part of the country's bid to dominate the technology. Read more...

India to launch 6G services by the end of this decade

Rahul Naskar — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:10:02 +0000

India's Prime minister Narendra Modi has said that the Government of India has set up a task force to achieve the goal of launching 6G services in the country by the end of this decade. Read more...

LG successfully trials 6G THz in an outdoor setting

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:20:01 +0000

LG has successful sent and received wireless 6G THz data over a 100-metre distance in an outdoor setting. The 6G spec will be standardised in 2025 and LG hopes its innovations will be included. Read more...

Ericsson and MIT begin research on next-gen 5G and 6G networks

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 19:02:01 +0000

Ericsson has formed a partnership with MIT to begin work on hardware that will enable next-gen 5G and 6G networks. The partners did not provide a roadmap of when they expect to complete the work. Read more...

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom in trial to boost 5G backhaul capacity

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:40:01 +0000

Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Cosmote have carried out successful trials on W-band technology to boost capacity on 5G networks. They said it will also help in next-generation 6G networks. Read more...

LG is officially shutting down its mobile phone business

Rich Woods — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 02:50:02 +0000

Today, LG announced that after months of rumors, it's officially shutting down its mobile phone business. It's still going to focus on mobility-related technologies such as 6G connectivity. Read more...

Nokia to lead EU's 6G research project Hexa-X

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:22:01 +0000

Nokia has become the head of an EU research project into 6G called Hexa-X. The firm said that it expects 6G to become commercially available to consumers in a decade around the year 2030. Read more...

China begins research and development work on 6G months ahead than originally planned

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:04:01 +0000

China has begun working on 6G a couple of months earlier than anticipated. The development of 6G is still very early in the cycle and the plan is to launch it commercially in 2030. Read more...

China looking ahead to 1Tbps 6G connectivity, work to start in 2020

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:14:01 +0000

China is looking ahead to 2030 where it envisions 6G network connectivity delivering speeds of up to 1Tbps. The country has already launched a concept study and wants to start R&D in 2020. Read more...