Vietnam and plans to produce 5G chips by themselves

Many Vietnamese businesses are planning to produce chips for 5G core networks, IoT devices, research, development of phones and 5G telecommunications devices.Currently, there are about 131 carriers announced investing in developing 5G technology. Many large companies already have commercial 5G BTS stations to deploy to carriers. As of September 2019, only about 10 countries commercialized the 5G network. These countries include Korea, Japan, China, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Norway, and the Russia. However, the world still does not have a common 5G standard.

In Vietnam, the Ministry of Information and Communications has licensed operators to start testing 5G technology in some major cities. Vietnam has determined that it will not slow down compared to other countries in the process of developing 5G. However, not just commercializing 5G, local businesses are even more ambitious.

Vietnamese businesses plan to produce 5G chips

The IC industry is an important part of the hardware industry - electronics. With the trend of digital transformation taking place around the world, mastering in research, design, manufacturing chips and ICT devices is more important than ever. 5G has a special feature that manufacturers who want to have 5G equipment must produce their chipset. Therefore, not only is the deployment and application of 5G networks, some Vietnamese enterprises also have the ambition to produce 5G chips to catch the wave of the Internet of Things.

According to the Deputy General Director of a High Technology Industry Corporation, the operator has developed and deployed about 80% of 4G network element devices. With 5G, the company will develop 5G networks including 5G core network devices and radio access networks.

The company's goal is to be able to deploy microcells on the network by 2020 and complete the Core 5G NSA EN-DC. Next is to deploy macro cells (network macro cells) and complete Core 5G SA.

To optimize product costs, the company is designing and manufacturing hardware, including chips, to fully master the product. By July 2020, the company will announce the first ASIC chip. In April 2021, the company will manufacture DFE chips. These are the two most important chips in the 5G transceiver station.

The group currently has 300 engineers involved in the 5G project. These are all experienced engineers. The group has approved a budget of VND 500 billion for Microcell 5G development and is investing in a Lab with VND 200 billion.

A fledgling enterprise that is a company of a multidisciplinary group in Vietnam is also cherishing similar ambitions. Although it was just established in 2018, this business has built a Lab to support the research and development of 5G phones and 5G telecommunication devices.

What do Vietnamese businesses need to develop microchips and 5G network equipment?

So far, Vietnam has never produced a chip from start to finish to be commercialized. Therefore, the Deputy General Director of the high-tech corporation said that one of the difficulties that this unit faces is the trust of the Vietnamese people themselves.

The second difficulty is the lack of chip design experts. These people are not only good but also seasoned with 5-10 years of experience.

For the multidisciplinary corporation, the company proposed the Ministry of Information and Communications to allocate frequencies to be able to test 5G networks. Because it is just an equipment company, it is more difficult to obtain a license than the network operators are.

With this proposal, the representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications said that businesses producing 5G equipment need the frequency band for testing to apply for licenses. "If there is a band to use, need to study but no planning, the Department of Telecommunications will have a plan to solve, just businesses offer the band," Deputy Director of Department of Radio Frequency.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications will be responsible for forming a strategy to better define the role and responsibility of the state in promoting chipset development plans of Vietnamese businesses.

The Ministry also wants to receive more recommendations and suggestions from organizations and businesses to complete the plan. The Ministry of Information and Communications is committed to accompanying to address all difficulties of businesses in the industry.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/vn/thong-tin-truyen-thong/viet-nam-va-tham-vong-tu-san-xuat-chip-5g-583587.html

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How much Vietnam has to spend for 5G?

According to the development orientation of the Information and Communication industry in 2020 issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), 5G is identified as an important infrastructure to underpin the development of the digital economy and digital society.

Accordingly, the goal of commercializing 5G products is also determined this year.

Vietnam will not be late in deploying and developing 5G

Vietnam is one of 109 countries and territories investing in 5G networks. In Southeast Asia, Vietnam is deploying 5G with Malaysia and Singapore.According to MIC, in 2020 5G will officially be opened in Vietnam. In fact, months ago, MIC approved to test 5G in two largest cities in Vietnam, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Along with 5G, large enterprises are investing heavily in the production of Internet of Things (IoT) in order to catch up the era of Internet connecting everything, smart cities and smart home ... 5G will go hand in hand with technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Machine Learning, Big Data ... and will be connected on the 5G high speed mobile network platform to meet quick processing with large amounts of calculations and data.

How much Vietnam has to spend for developing 5G?

According to the report "5G in Southeast Asia", the demand for investment in 5G of carriers in Vietnam in the period of 2021-2025 will be between 1.5-2.5 billion USD. Despite the need for 5G investment capital up to billions of dollars, according to industry experts, such a capital amount for Vietnamese carriers can be fully arranged.

In 2010, when 3G technology was first launched in Vietnam, the total investment capital of Vietnamese operators in 3G was more than 42,000 billion VND, equivalent to about 2 billion USD.

Also according to the above report, in the first 5 years of launching 5G service in Vietnam, the number of subscribers will reach about 6 million, and bring carriers about 300 million USD in revenue from 2025.

On July 19th 2019, TMA Innovation Center kicked off the first 5G project: using drones to identify wrongly-parked vehicles at QTSC. The project will be deployed by QTSC in Ho Chi Minh City after testing. The second project is to use drones to identify and count people, cars, trees, animals, and fruit quantity and maturity. TMA Solutions is the only company in Vietnam with over 10 years working on 4G / LTE devices for many large companies, so we have many advantages. For these reasons, TMA Solutions has decided to invest in becoming a leading company in Southeast Asia in developing applications using 5G.

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Commercializing 5G in 2020, Vietnam will take the initiative to lead the world in technology

According to Directive 01 of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on the development orientation of the Information and Communications industry, in 2020, the 5G network will be commercially deployed in Vietnam.

MIC will also take the initiative in building a roadmap and a plan to eliminate 2G mobile technology from 2022, and conduct auctions and issue the license of 2.6 GHz mobile band to improve the network quality and speed of the mobile communication service.

The directive also said that 5G is a very important infrastructure of the digital economy and digital society, so mastering 5G equipment is very important and Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world, which can produce 5G devices. Therefore, MIC will facilitate and focus on directing Vietnamese businesses to invest and carry out research and investment missions towards the goal of commercializing 5G by 2020.

Directive 01 also emphasizes that telecom businesses must take on more roles and responsibilities which are the foundation of digital infrastructure, digital payment, mobile money … and they also have to master the underlying technology platforms for digital transformation such as 5G technology, IoT, Big Data, AI, etc.

On July 19th 2019, TMA Innovation Center kicked off the first 5G project: using drones to identify wrongly-parked vehicles at QTSC. The project will be deployed by QTSC in Ho Chi Minh City after testing. The second project is to use drones to identify and count people, cars, trees, animals, and fruit quantity and maturity. TMA Solutions is the only company in Vietnam with over 10 years working on 4G / LTE devices for many large companies, so we have many advantages. For these reasons, TMA Solutions has decided to invest in becoming a leading company in Southeast Asia in developing applications using 5G.

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The Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Trends Everyone Should Be Watching In 2020

The 2010s has been marked as the beginning of AI technology stories, and that seems not to be a random wave when the storm of technologies continuously overflows, which will open a new way for the upcoming decade.

In the past time, machines have already been thought as “intelligence” – in learning, thinking, and also in acting – appeared regularly in science fiction and began to turn into reality.

In spite of there is no prediction engine has yet been completely built that is able to describe the process of AI over the new ages, we can be somehow imagine about what is about to happen next years.  Investment in R&D, projects implementation faster and more effectively, and arguments around the wider social implications getting hotter days by days. Meanwhile, the motivation gets stronger only for those planning to deploy AI-driven innovation into new industrial areas, fields of science, and also our daily lives.

Here are some predictions for what we’re likely to note as spotlights in this first year of 2020s.

1/ Business processes are increasingly improving thanks to AI’s monitoring and refining:

While the last robot generations in the workplace were mainly focus on automating tasks such as manufacturing and production lines, today’s software-based “helpers” will undertake the repetitive but extremely necessary work that we perform on computers. Forms filling, generating any reports or diagrams, producing documentation and instructions are tasks that can be automatically done by machines by observing from what we do and start learning to do it for us in a faster and more systematic. This is known as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which will absolutely free us from bundle of time, replacing some essential administrative work while letting us to spend more time on any other complex, creativity, or tasks that require multi interaction between people.

2/ Personalization is becoming more and more real:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows goods and services providers a quick and accuracy 360-degree overview about customers in real-time interacting via online portals and apps, learn from their predictions whether they can fit with our wants with the extremely high increasing accuracy. Just as coffee companies like Starbucks will learn will learn when we most likely to want a cup of coffee, and make sure the “Place an Order” button always appear in front of us at the right time, every other industry will place their solutions pointed at offering personalized customer experiences.

3/ The useful of AI is shown up through data availability and accuracy:

The authenticity and quality of available information usually a barrier to organizations and firms planning to move towards AI-driven decision-making automatically. Since technology and simulate real-world processes and mechanisms methods in the digital domain have improved by years, trustable data has become strongly available. Simulations have advanced to the level where manufacturers and developers of autonomous vehicles can transform thousands of hours leave vehicles out the lab to driving data, which lead a large amount of cost reduction as well as increase the data that can be gathered. How could risk the expense and danger of testing AI systems in the real world occur when computers are now powerful enough, or even overpower? And trained on accurate-enough data, while we can simulate it all in the digital world? During this year, the world will see a positive change in the accuracy and availability of real-world simulations, which will lead to a powerful and accurate generation of AI.

4/ AI-powered technology will be able to run in additional platforms:

Due to the reasonable price and availability of hardware and expertise needed to deploy AI, people will start to see it used in an increasing number of gadgets, tools and devices.  In the previous year, we’re already used to running apps that give out AI-powered predictions on our mobile devices. As the falling down of cost of hardware and software approached by the next decade, AI tools will continuously be adapted to our vehicles, household appliances and workplace tools. With the development of technology such as virtual and augmented reality displays, and paradigms like cloud and IoT, the upcoming year will be witnessed devices with various of shapes and sizes begin thinking and learning themselves.


5/ Enhance linking between human and AI:

By the time, more of us will sooner adapt with the idea of working alongside AI-powered tools and bots in our daily working lives. As the result of improving technology, tools are built that allow us to perform such human skills that AI haven’t been able to manage as imaginative, communication skills or ability to design and strategy. While upgrading them with amazing analytics abilities fed by vast datasets in real-time updated.

In human way, this is only mean learning new skills, or at least new ways to apply our skills cooperate with these new types robotic and software-based tools. Base on the prediction of IDC that in 2025, about 75% of firms will invest more in employee retraining in order to limit skill gaps caused by the need to adopt AI. This trend will become available during 2020, in case of your employees isn’t catch up with investing in AI tools and training, it might be worth considering how well they can grow over the following years.

6/ Ai is rocketing at the “edge”:

Most of AI interacting with us nowadays activated “in the cloud” – whenever we have an online searching, the complex and data-driven algorithms speed up on its high-powered processors inside remote data centers, with our in-hand devices or on desktops simply act as conduits for information to get through.

Moreover, as the efficiency of these algorithms keeps increasing and capable of running on low-power devices, AI is taking places at the “edge”, closely work near the point where data is collected and applied. This paradigm will continue be popularized since 2020, making AI-powered insights a reality outside of the times and places where both hyper-speed fiber optics and mobile networks available. Processors customization designed to carry out real-time analytics instantly will greatly become part of the daily technology we interact with, and besides we will all be able to do it even we have patchy or offline.


7/ AI is taking it steps into creating films, music, and games:

There might be something, even in 2020, are probably still best left to humans. Anyone that has experienced the present state-of-the-art in AI-generated modern arts is likely to agree that the most sophisticated machines still have some ways left to go until their output will be as enjoyable to us as the best human-made products ever been exist. However, the affection of AI on entertainment media is rising up. This year, Robert De Niro surprised us the assistance of AI, The Irishman of Martin Scorsese’s epic, and the use of AI in creating brand new visual effects and trickery is on the way making themselves commonly.

For videogames, AI will continue tend to be a suitable choice to create challenging, human-like rivals for players to face with, as well as to flexibly adjust gameplay and difficulties so that games can continue to offer compelling challenges for any gamers of any skill levels. And while completely AI-generated music may not be everyone’s meal, where AI excellence in creating dynamic soundscapes – list of smart playlists on services like Google Music or Spotify that combine perfectly melodies and tempo to the mood and push up our daily lives.

8/ The existence of AI in cybersecurity is becoming even more important:

Facing with hacking, phishing and social engineering attacks become more sophisticated, are powered all by AI and advance prediction algorithms, smart technology will act an extremely important role in helping us avoid these attempt intrusions into our safety. AI can be coped with specific situations such as spot giveaway signs that digital activities or transactions follow patterns which are seem to be indicators or nefarious activities, and note some urgencies before defenses can be breached and sensitive data compromised.

The deployment of 5G and related wireless communications technology will contain various opportunities for organizations to provide services in different and innovative ways, but also potentially open up to more sophisticated cyber-attacks. Investing in cybersecurity will keep growing up, and those with relevant skills will be highly sought-after.

9/ More of us consciously interact with AI without cognitive:

Even load of investment in recent years in natural-language powered chatbots in CRM, many of us can easily recognize whether we’re dealing with a mechanical machine or a real person. However, as the datasets used to train natural-language processing algorithms on the way higher, the gap between humans and machines will strictly be distinguish. With the advent of deep learning and semi-supervised models of machine learning such as reinforcement learning, the algorithms that attempt to fit with our speech patterns and infer meaning form our human language somehow misleading us of imagine of someone sitting at the opposite side of the conversation. While we still deep in dealing with a “human” when looking for information and assistance, if robots fill their promise of becoming more efficiency and accuracy at interpreting what we’re wondering, that could change. Given the ongoing investment and maturation of the technology powering customer services bots and portals, this 2020 could probably be the first time that many of us interact with a robot without even realize it.

10/ Even if we don’t notice AI, they will:

Despite the instability situations occur, the rollout of facial recognition technology is only likely to intensify as soon as we step into the next decade. Not only any specific country but the whole world. Corporations and governments rushing their investment in such methods of identifying ourselves and interpreting our activities and behaviors. Actually there’s some prevent actions aim at this – by this year, San Francisco became the first major city that ban the use of facial recognition technology by the executive forces, and others might happen in 2020. But the question of whether people ultimately begin to accept this intrusion into their lives, in return of the benefits it will bring, predicted to be a sensitive topic to argue till the of this first year of the new decade.

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The effects of 5G on the development of mobile applications

According to a study conducted by Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GMSA) earlier this year, 5G will account for 15% of the global mobile industry by 2025, with an estimated 1.4 billion devices operating on the 5G network. For the mobile application development industry, the launch of 5G networks will not only affect the way people use mobile applications, but also bring new opportunities for developers. In the future, 5G will allow developers to explore, build new platforms, and create applications that allow customers to experience faster, more personalized services.

What is 5G?

5G is not a modified version of 4G; instead, it is an entirely new network infrastructure. 5G has the potential to revolutionize the way mobile networks work. 5G networks promise to enhance mobile connectivity and improve smartphone experience for users by providing faster data sharing with connection speeds of around 10 Gigabit/s, 10 times faster than existing radio technology. High-speed data transfer will completely change the way people communicate; but for mobile application developers, speed is not the only thing that will bring new possibilities in the way of application development.

Lower latency: Latency is a cause of concern for mobile device users, especially when these devices and their networks are being used to make important decisions in real time. Current 4G networks have an average latency of 50 milliseconds, while 5G networks will reduce latency to just one millisecond, which results in less latency and network interference.

Increased connection density: Connection density is related to the ability to successfully support the sending of certain messages, even in densely populated areas of the network. Currently, 4G networks can only support about 2,000 connected devices per km², and when the average number of connected devices per user is expected to increase, each user will use more devices like smart watches, smart phones...4G network will not be able meet demand. 5G networks will solve this inadequacy of 4G networks with the ability to support up to 1 million connected devices per km².

How will 5G impact mobile app development?

With the creation of 5G, mobile applications are not only more efficient, but also more suitable for integrating and using technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality. 5G will allow developers to create a richer user experience, which is also a deciding factor for customers to use the app or delete it.

With the high speed and low latency that 5G networks provide, developers can provide customers with special experiences like video and gaming applications that will require less buffering time, which allows the experience to be more engaging and faster. Increased network speed and the ability to process more data will allow mobile app gamers to download game packages over the mobile network instead of being asked to download over a Wi-Fi

5G will allow developers to integrate other technologies into more efficient applications. Specifically, the app market is likely to see an increase in cloud-based applications. As the tasks we require smartphones to perform become increasingly complex, the ability to create applications that can be used effectively in cloud as a means of storing data will redefine how and when to use the application..

Basically, by bringing application data to cloud, customers can access and run applications without having to install them on their devices. This means that the processing power and hardware of the device will not be affected by the application.

While it will take some time before customers, developers and businesses can fully enjoy the advantages of 5G, technology will play an integral role in helping developers respond meet customers' needs. As mobile applications continue to evolve, 4G technology cannot support the enormous amount of data generated. In fact, 4G has shown signs of being overloaded, as many studies show that network speeds vary drastically based on the number of connected customers. If you're currently using 4G network technology, 5G is an option worth discovering and exploring.

In support of next-generation mobile applications, 5G technology with a commitment to higher data rates, lower latency and increased connectivity will be the only way to deliver to customers richer experiences. For businesses, that helps maintain customers and increase revenue from mobile apps in the coming years. When 5G network deployment is promoted in markets, it will create favorable conditions for developing applications that need more data based on 5G networks.

5G technology's research, application, development in Vietnam have become one of the most important milestones of this year. 5G trials for three major telecommunication businesses have been licensed by the Ministry of Information and Communications. The purpose is to create an important infrastructure for the development of the digital economy and better meet the demand of increasing connectivity speed and scale. The project would be an overall plan to move towards a comprehensive digital economy and society by 2030.

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Vietnam will cut off the 2G network by 2022, and trade the 5G in 2020

The Ministry of Information and Communications said that the Ministry has submitted to the Prime Minister to consider the plan to stop the old 2G mobile technology by 2022. The reason for cutting off the 2G network is that there are three public telecommunications networks in Vietnam. Ground mobile technology is GSM (2G) deployed in 1990, IMT 2000 (3G) deployed in 2009 and LTE-A (4G) deployed in 2016 and expected to deploy commercial 5G in 2020. Thus, from 2021, there will be four mobile technologies on Vietnam's telecommunications network. Maintaining these 4 technologies at the same time forces businesses to maintain and operate 4 separate mobile networks, costing businesses, frequency resources are divided, and enterprises do not focus on sources. Force to engage in new mobile technology. Therefore, the elimination of 2G technology allows the release of bands for new mobile technologies, helping businesses save and reduce operating costs, and reserve passive infrastructure to develop 5G broadcast stations.

Besides, Vietnamese businesses have been able to produce smartphones at low prices that can replace existing 2G phones and do not affect users much.

Along with the launch of the 2G wave-off roadmap, the Ministry of Information and Communications said it has licensed 5G testing for mobile telecommunications businesses. Currently, a telecommunications corporation in Vietnam has officially tested this technology in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The ministry advocates the consideration of official 5G licensing for businesses by 2020. Therefore, Vietnam is now one of the leading countries in the ASEAN region in terms of 5G trade deployment.

A General Director of the corporation said that they had prepared conditions on station infrastructure, transmission systems, core networks as well as experiences, lessons, and personnel on design and deployment of 5G network. "In Ho Chi Minh City, the company has completed seamless 5G network coverage in ward 12, District 10. For Hanoi, we have broadcasted some of the first 5G stations in May 2019. In addition, the company will deploy the 5G network seamlessly in an area of ​​Ba Dinh district in the next 1-2 months. The download speed of the 5G network as the company has announced is 1.7 GB / s, 50 times higher than 4G currently. This is a technical testing phase, so the company's goal is to evaluate the system capacity, coverage, and parameters as well as draw lessons on design, deployment, operation, and exploitation. 5G network layer, from which there is a basis to build a strategy and development roadmap for 5G in Vietnam "said the General Director

Source: https://genk.vn/viet-nam-se-tat-mang-2g-vao-nam-2022-thuong-mai-5g-trong-nam-2020-20191228125023519.chn

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