Apple’s first 5G phones arrived just a few months ago, but the company is already exploring the future of cellular connectivity.
A recently published job listing for a wireless research systems engineer teased the company’s ambitions for 6G cellular technology. This listing, previously reported by Bloomberg, says the position “will be at the heart of a state-of-the-art research group responsible for creating next-generation disruptive radio access technologies in the next decade.”
“You will work on defining system-level concepts, proposing and researching innovative ideas and algorithms, performing complex system simulations, defining rapid prototyping platforms to prove your ideas and specifying RAN protocols and next-generation (6G) cellular systems.” “, Is shown in the list. Among the responsibilities of this role, Apple says that the function will participate in academic and industrial forums “passionate about 6G technology”.
Apple did not immediately send a request for comment on the development of its next-generation cellular technology.
It is possible that Apple will explore the future of cellular connectivity, but we are a way out of any such technology that appears on Apple devices – potentially a decade or more, because 6G is little more than an idea right now. A state-of-the-art wireless the standard has not yet been set (and is probably still years away). Moreover, Apple has just introduced its own the first generation of iPhone 5G at the end of last year. And by shrinking from its latest list of phones, many of its products are still 4G devices.
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But this is quite clear in the job posting, which stipulates that a good candidate could be someone who loves “working on challenges that no one has solved yet”. And technologies, clearly, that do not yet exist.