Intel recently released the world's smallest 3G modem, which can also be used for everyday items of networking, such as a coffee machine that can be launched with a mobile application. Do users have a detailed understanding of this smallest 3G modem? Today Xiao Bian has come to elaborate on the world's smallest 3G modem. 
The Intel XMM 6255 3G modem is a chip that uses a cellular network to connect billions of smart devices such as wearables, sensors, or industrial devices. The chip is only a little more than a cent. Since 2001, the telecommunications operator NTT Docomo opened the first 3G wireless data network in Japan, and 3G modems have been on sale. At that time, the size of the 3G modem was barely equivalent to the current cell phone. And now, thanks to Moore's Law (Intel’s founder Gordon Moore predicts that the number of transistors on the chip will continue to grow exponentially year after year), chips have become smaller and smaller and have been sold in the past decade. Billions of chips.
According to an analysis by investment firm Raymond James & Associates, the number of connected devices is expected to reach 26 to 50 billion by 2020. The IoT European Research Center estimates that 80 items will be connected to the network for the first time per second, and by 2020 this number will increase to 250 per second. These devices will need a lot of modems.
Intel believes that 3G modems will be required for industrial equipment, home appliances, security equipment, and many other items. The importance of 3G modems is that the network is connected to computing and communications. The 3G modem connects these devices to the computing cloud, where it aggregates the big data and computes some useful information.