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5G AND THE WATCH
The Apple Watch’s biggest leap toward independence from the iPhone may be driven by the new wireless standard, 5G. Apple is reportedly aiming to release its first 5G iPhone in 2020, and it will surely introduce a 5G Apple Watch when it feels the technology is ready. 5G will bring much higher connection speeds than what we’re used to with 4G. The 5G modem chip maker Qualcomm says it expects users to see real-world download speeds of around 1.4 gigabytes per second, or about 20 times faster than 4G LTE service.
5G also offers much improved network latency, which could make talking to Siri on the Watch a far better experience. Siri requests will make it up to the cloud faster and the responses will come back sooner. As Siri gets more conversational, the whole exchange will feel more natural–and productive. Siri has other problems; hopefully we’ll hear some encouraging news in that direction on June 3.
5G’s speed should make streaming or downloading media–music, video, books, and more–super-fast and painless. A podcast or audio book could download to the Watch in a couple of seconds. Interruptions to media playing on the Watch could become a thing of the past.
The instant connectivity might make the Watch a more effective personal health monitor device–the device Steve Jobs envisioned. One of the Watch’s core strengths is its close proximity to the body, and the fact that people wear the device all day long. Until now, the Watch has been reasonably good at collecting and displaying basic health data, but less adept at making sense of it. Apple already telegraphed its interest in giving users more personalized and actionable health insights when it added a feature that warns of possible heart trouble based on data connected via the device’s new electrocardiogram reader.
Meanwhile, other digital health app makers, like AliveCor (which makes an EKG device and app for the Watch) and One Drop (whose diabetes management device can deliver data via the Watch) are already far down the road in using AI to deliver health insights. But running those AI models could be too big a job for the Watch and its small battery. A superfast, always-on 5G connection could let the Apple Watch offload some of the processing work to a cloud server. Apple being Apple, it would want to do this in a way that protects the security and privacy of the data.
Balancing local processing and the cloud could apply to lots of other processing-intensive tasks. It’s an open secret that Apple is working on some form of augmented reality glasses. Because it’s hard to fit a powerful enough processor into a svelte and wearable pair of glasses, it’s a good idea to offload some of the processing to another device–preferably one that the user might already wear. The Watch might be the perfect device to power the glasses, especially if it could get a little help from the cloud for the heavy image processing, object recognition, and sensor data processing that AR glasses must do.
5G ISN’T EASY
Building a 5G radio into the Apple Watch won’t be easy. Heck, building it into anything isn’t yet a simple matter: Phone makers and network operators have spent much of this year trying to work out battery drain and overheating problems with the chips in the first 5G phones to come to market.
Apple’s challenge with the Watch will be even greater. 5G modems’ thirst for battery power will seriously impact the way they can be used in compact wearables such as a smartwatch. The modem chip–likely made by Qualcomm–will have to run with even greater efficiency than it will in a phone. And as it did with the Apple Watch’s 4G connection, Apple may have the Apple Watch opt for 5G only if it can’t connect via Wi-Fi or by piggybacking on the iPhone’s connection. If the Watch does resort to 5G, it may carefully manage inbound and outbound data to ensure that its battery doesn’t croak by early afternoon rather than lasting a full day.
For me, the test for the Apple Watch has always been this: Which of these things would you never leave the house without–your keys, your smartwatch, or your smartphone? The answer, today, would likely be your keys and your smartphone. But the answer will one day likely change to your keys and your smartphone or your smartwatch. (Actually, your watch could one day take the place of your keys, too.) The Apple Watch will become functional enough to serve as a go-to personal computing device for some users.
The new App Store we’ll likely see Monday points in that direction, and 5G may be the thing that finally gets us all the way there.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90356869/the-next-big-step-for-the-apple-watch-liberation-from-the-iphone
Exactly.
Kuo says that he believes Luxshare Precision will also ship the new ?Apple Watch? expected in the second half of 2020, which would be the Series 6 model. There are no details included about the device, but past rumors have suggested the new device could feature faster performance, improved water resistance, and better wireless transmission.
Great info! Thanks for sharing
Your opinion
I’m at work now so I can’t research, but that was my next thought too
Exactly—it was never commercially viable to scale prior to Li
Quote: “Its capital expenditure topped NT$10 billion in both 2017 and 2018, mainly to purchase equipment for molding metal casings.”
Luxshare to be metal case supplier for Apple—Luxshare shares a director with EONTEC.
Huai Bin Xu is on the board of Luxshare Precision Industry Co. Ltd., Dongguan Eontec Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Kaizhong Precision Technology Co., Ltd.
PROOF LINKS BELOW.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Apple-urges-ambitious-Chinese-supplier-to-challenge-Foxconn
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Huai-Bin-Xu-0FS28L-E/biography/
Completely agree!
Great info Yama—welcome back and thanks for sharing!
Payme—thanks for the msg. Looked great! I don’t have the upgraded membership so I can’t reply privately.
Wow, great info!!!! I really appreciate your efforts!
Lol...so true
The titanic wasn’t made of liquidmetal. Just saying.
Good info—thanks for sharing!
Great point—it’s like an insurance policy...
Eontec volume is way up—and green.
Decent volume today
That’s huge! Thanks Josh!
Thanks Josh! Confidentiality agreement confirmed. Apple.
Thanks!
Thanks for your DD! I thought of your posts as soon as I read the news
Thanks for sharing! Lqmt long and strong!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks.
I know i have no facts of anything Apple, but the silence has to have a reason—and Apple’s history of demanding secrecy is well known.
However, it’s still just an opinion.
Because it is all Apple. No one in the liquidmetal, eontec, yihao chain can talk about it.
Exactly.
So why does Li keep any employees at LQMT? There is no justification to keep anyone other than an accountant and a sales manager. You still haven't answered--So why doesn't he fire them all?
Why did Li spend millions to buy the LF building? Why hasn’t he sold it? A costly, foolish purchase prompted by soon to depart Tom Steipp who needed a showcase windowcase only affordable by Lugee Li. The greatest swindle of a Chinese businessman ever in Rancho Santa Margarita history.So you think Li was swindled? By Steipp? Really? and the swindle was approved by Apple?--Really? Also, the building was purchased after the Steipp negotiated partnership with Li/Eontec.
Why did he approve the Eutectix partnership? He gave away the machines for free to go into a special PUBLIC STORAGE. So he spent time and money to draft a partnership with Eutectix to be a public storage? And, Eutectix/Materion agreed to this after fully vetting the deal? Nope.
Why did he agree to the Europe and North America portions of the agreement? Steipp needed some cover for Materion and Engel who, as early as the OPEN HOUSE, knew that Lugee would cut them out of his maze. (They are not in his maze) No, i asked why Lugee agreed to it not Steipp. Answer that please.
Since he is in “both” sides, why doesn’t he just negate the agreement completely? He obviously could. He needs to look legitimate in the US government's and SEC's eyes Why, if this is all about the CCP, as you say, he should care less about the US Government and the SEC. Give a better answer.
Why did he “buy” the stock at all? (He already had his bmg formulas, manufacturing processes, and North America customers (Tesla).) Such an obvious answer: LL needed the patent portfolio because both his formula and processes are built upon a layer of LQMT and Caltech Patents. If this is CCP, as you say, why would he care about US patents? ALso, if he gave up North America and Europe because Steipp swindled him (lol), why would even need the patents--he had his own BMG formula and processes and sold to Tesla (a US company) prior to the agreement already--without the Liquidmetal patents. Explain your thought process further, please.
Watts, you know this is an apple deal, it's all 5G, Iphone12.
So why does Li keep any employees at LQMT?
Why did Li spend millions to buy the LF building? Why hasn’t he sold it?
Why did he approve the Eutectix partnership?
Why did he agree to the Europe and North America portions of the agreement?
Since he is in “both” sides, why doesn’t he just negate the agreement completely? He obviously could.
Why did he “buy” the stock at all? (He already had his bmg formulas, manufacturing processes, and North America customers (Tesla).)
Nice thinking—I completely overlooked that from a % standpoint. Appreciate your post!
http://www.haythink.com/news/detail.asp?ID=1241
Automotive Parts
The company is good at building structural parts with tight tolerances. This is the main reason that our auto customers (mainly in Europe and United States) like to work with us. The typical big part -- car door frame, is produced in 4000T die casting machine which is one of the world's biggest die casting machine. We are able to control the flatness and tight tolerances even though the part is as thin as 2mm.
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Dude, that’s just wrong to say. About anyone. Ever.
Name three of these “several” investors and provide some proof that this happened.
Great point. Absolutely true.