At the Intel Developer Forum 2015 last week, the hardware overlord took the opportunity to clarify its vision of the 5G future. It's not about speed, it's about integration. All wireless services will eventually (if not soon) become a seamless unified meta-network where Wi-Fi, cellular, and centimeter- and millimeter wavelength bands all join forces to offer the user "5G," which won't so much represent the "cloud" as it will the air itself, ready to nourish antennae as oxygen nourishes lungs.
"What is 5G?," asked Aicha Evans, the general manager of Intel's communications and devices group, at the start of her keynote panel. "It's not a faster modem, it's not a faster 4G modem. It's a unifier, it's a fusion of all of these technologies. The air around us. No more figuring out, Do I connect through Wi-Fi? Do I connect through 4G? Do I send it through Bluetooth? All of that is going to happen magically."
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