Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Efficient, dual-frequency GPS chip to vastly increase location accuracy on select phones in 2018


Chip maker Broadcom has just come up with a new dual-frequency GPS chip that promises to greatly improve GPS accuracy - from around 5 meters as of now to roughly 30cm. A great improvement no matter how you look at it. 

Currently known as BCM47755, this breakthrough new GPS chip got unveiled a few days ago at teh ION GNSS+ summit in Portland, OR, and has been already included in the blueprints for some unspecified upcoming smartphones. It will be easy to speculate that the Galaxy S9. S9 Plus and the LG G7 are the prime suspects at the moment.

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