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The race to 5G wireless is on \u2013 and if your mobile carrier isn\u2019t already pestering you to upgrade to a 5G phone, they will be soon. All of this is made possible by the hardware<\/u>\u00a0inside. In my experience,\u00a0great hardware is one of the best ways to profit from any tech boom \u2013 and that includes 5G.<\/strong>\u00a0In that vein, chipmaker Qualcomm\u00a0<\/strong>(NASDAQ:QCOM<\/u><\/strong><\/span>) just announced its latest contribution to the 5G revolution. And Apple<\/strong> (NASDAQ:AAPL<\/u><\/strong><\/span>) is sure to take notice.<\/p>\n While the iPhone 11 launch in September was all about\u00a0\u201cslofies\u201d (and a third camera), Apple is said to be working on a more innovative iPhone 12 for its 5G debut this fall.<\/p>\n
The hot new product Qualcomm announced today, the Snapdragon X60, is a 5G modem. Now, when most people think of modems, they think of something like this \u2013 the equipment that gets you online at home or work:<\/p>\n
Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\nBut the modems we\u2019re talking about here are actually tiny chips that go\u00a0inside\u00a0<\/em>smartphones (and other mobile devices):<\/p>\n
Source: Intel<\/em><\/p>\nAbove you see an example from\u00a0Intel\u00a0<\/strong>(NASDAQ:INTC<\/u><\/strong><\/span>), which in August sold a modem division to Apple for a cool $1 billion. Like its Chinese competitor, Huawei Technologies, Apple was more inclined to develop its OWN chips.<\/p>\n Custom hardware is a hallmark of Apple products. But, in the meantime, Qualcomm is still its chip supplier for the next few years \u2013 and the new X60 chips prove that it can make them as small and as efficient as Apple (and other smartphone makers) could hope for.<\/p>\n
Qualcomm has not announced the exact dimensions of this year\u2019s Snapdragon X60 chips. But we do know that it\u2019s made of transistors that are just 5 nanometers (that\u2019s 5\u00a0billionths\u00a0<\/em>of a meter!) in size.<\/p>\nAnd Qualcomm\u2019s making another key upgrade from the current X55 chips: This will be the first \u201cto support spectrum aggregation across all key 5G bands and combinations.\u201d 5G will use new millimeter-wave technology, and basically Qualcomm will deliver chips that let you access 5G speeds in any of the different networks.<\/p>\n
With 5G chips that are more versatile, efficient\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>smaller than its rivals, Qualcomm is clearly a step ahead in terms of the technology. How about\u00a0as an investment?<\/u><\/p>\n Well,\u00a0I\u2019m actually taking a different approach to 5G in my\u00a0Growth Investor\u00a0<\/em>recommendations.<\/strong><\/p>\nTo help you see why, here is how QCOM stock is looking right now in my Portfolio Grader<\/em>:<\/p>\n
QCOM stock earns top marks of \u201cA\u201d for its Quantitative Grade, which indicates popularity on Wall Street. That is certainly a strong point in its favor. But overall, Qualcomm\u2019s sales and profitability scores make for a mediocre Fundamental Grade of \u201cC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Add it all up, and QCOM stock does manage to ring in as a B-rated \u201cBuy.\u201d But I\u2019ve got a better way to invest in 5G now.<\/p>\n
Grab the Biggest Slice of the 5G Profits<\/h3>\n As amazing as 5G promises to be, it doesn\u2019t get us anywhere without the right infrastructure in place. You can never stream\u00a0Netflix\u00a0<\/strong>(NASDAQ:NFLX<\/u><\/strong><\/span>) using your smartphone plan (at any speed!) unless there\u2019s a cell tower nearby.<\/p>\n With 5G, those cell towers will be able to provide cable modem speeds (approximately 100mps) to wireless devices. Within two years, most cell phones will be 5G enabled and be able to wirelessly handle television streaming. In fact, with the 5G infrastructure market set to grow at an annual rate of 67% over the next 10 years, the entire market will go from $780 million to nearly $48 billion.\u00a0This buildout is where I see opportunity now.<\/strong><\/p>\nCable companies can do their best to fight back with fiber optics\u2026but their services aren\u2019t even available in many rural areas. And anyway, they can\u2019t compete with the convenience of a smartphone, once it\u2019s got ultrafast 5G. That\u2019s how\u00a0my 5G infrastructure play<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will capture more market share from the broadband cable companies.<\/p>\nThe stock I\u2019m targeting is enjoying an influx of big money on Wall Street, and it has strong fundamentals, too \u2013 making it an A-rated \u201cStrong Buy\u201d in my\u00a0Portfolio Grader\u00a0<\/em>system.<\/p>\nClick here to watch my new, free briefing on 5G and how to capitalize on this extraordinary opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen you do, you\u2019ll see how to claim a free copy of my new investment report,\u00a0The Netflix of 5G<\/em><\/strong>, which has full details on this company \u2013 and what makes it such a great buy now.<\/p>\nLouis Navellier had an unconventional start, as a grad student who accidentally built a market-beating stock system \u2014 with\u00a0returns rivaling even Warren Buffett. In one recent feat, Louis discovered the \u201cMaster Key\u201d to profiting from\u00a0the biggest tech revolution of this (or any) generation. Louis Navellier may hold some of the aforementioned securities in one or more of his newsletters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[ad_1] Source: Xixi Fu \/ Shutterstock.com The race to 5G wireless is on \u2013 and if your mobile carrier isn\u2019t already pestering you to upgrade to a 5G phone, they will be soon. All of this is made possible by the hardware\u00a0inside. In my experience,\u00a0great hardware is one of the best ways to profit from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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