Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon X35 5G modem chipset, the first commercial product to implement elements of 5G NR Light (also known as reduced capacity or RedCap). The chipset is pitched at connectivity for smaller handheld devices and wearables, falling between full mobile broadband use cases and very low-data-rate IoT applications. It comes with an accompanying X32 5G modem-to-antenna system. 5G NR Light was introduced in the most recent 3GPP standards release, Release 17, and will evolve to cover a wide range of non-broadband applications, providing a converged migration path for the two 4G-based cellular IoT protocols, NB-IoT and LTE-M. Since these two technologies have only been deployed in very recent years by most operators, there are question marks over…