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Qualcomm sees ‘one technology roadmap’ as proof that its R&D engine scales

Last year Qualcomm rolled out its vision of leveraging a unified technology roadmap to grow its end market well beyond smartphones and grow addressable market 7-fold over the next decade to $700 billion. Now the company is rapidly executing on that plan with across...

Qualcomm is positioned as your ticket to the metaverse

5G, Wi-Fi, and connected intelligent edge are key enablers of the metaverse As the possibilities of the metaverse for consumers and enterprises takes shape, the spotlight is on ensuring foundational technology pieces are in place. With core expertise ranging from connectivity and compute to graphics...

Advanced Massive MIMO technologies usher in new wide-area 5G capabilities

Sub-band full-duplex, Giga MIMO, sub-THz and the march to the Terabit-per-second era At its campus in Southern California, Qualcomm Technologies’ R&D team demonstrated how advanced Massive MIMO technologies like sub-band full-duplex (SBFD) and Giga-MIMO will continue to drive wide-area 5G adoption, help operators make the...

Qualcomm updates 5G FWA platforms as operators signal ramping investment

AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon all expanding 5G FWA to capture consumer and enterprise businesses Last week during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm announced an update to its 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platforms to include support for Standalone 5G using mmWave frequencies, introduction of its...

Fastweb, Qualcomm collaborate on 5G SA mmWave FWA in Italy

Qualcomm said the platform will feature Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems for Fixed Wireless Access Italian telco Fastweb and Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to commercialize 5G Standalone (SA) millimeter wave (mmWave) on Qualcomm's 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platform Gen 2. In a statement,...

Qualcomm CEO at MWC Barcelona: ‘Mobile technology is literally going everywhere’

As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in fact—as CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...

Qualcomm, Rakuten Symphony partner on massive MIMO for Open RAN

The massive MIMO radios will be used in Rakuten Mobile network in Japan and sold globally by Rakuten Symphony Qualcomm and Rakuten Symphony are confident that they'll crack the code for Open RAN compatible 64T/64R massive MIMO radios that can rival integrated solutions from a...

EU starts WTO dispute against China over telecom patents

The European Union has filed a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for restricting EU high-tech companies from going to a foreign court to protect and use their patents. In a release, the European Commission noted that China "severely restricts EU companies...

HPE, Qualcomm taking on Open RAN performance, TCO

Qualcomm inline accelerator card tapped for Open RAN virtualized distributed units Along with the gaining traction of commoditized telecom hardware and disaggregated Open RAN architectures, HPE is leaning into the telecom market with the creation of a Communications Technology Group and development of its Open...

Cellular V2X technology is driving automotive antenna module market growth: Report

The Technavio report anticipates that the automotive antenna module market will grow $525.67 million in the forecasted period Technavio’s latest automotive antenna module market report anticipates a market growth in this space of $525.67 million from 2020 to 2025, driven mostly by the fact that vehicles are becoming increasingly...

Qualcomm CEO on record Q1: ‘Our strategy is working’

On the path to $700 billion, Qualcomm reports growth in handsets, RF front-end, automotive and IoT A little less than three months after laying out its 10-year growth plan at an investors event, Qualcomm this week report a record first quarter with year-over-year revenue growth...

How will Qualcomm achieve its net-zero timeline?

Qualcomm is now promising net-zero emissions by 2040 by first reducing its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50% Qualcomm has supported the Paris Agreement since 2015, with Nate Tibbits, the company’s senior vice president of Government Affairs, calling it a “strong...

Intel’s Mobileye reveals three new autonomous vehicle SoCs at CES

Mobileye’s CEO says the company has designed the 'ultimate chip' for autonomous driving LAS VEGAS – Intel’s autonomous driving subsidiary Mobileye announced three new generations of its EyeQ system-on-a-chips (SoCs), which are purpose-built for autonomous vehicles (AVs), at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in...

5 wireless technology trends to keep on your radar in 2022 (Reader Forum)

In an increasingly connected world, the need for data and network capacity has become the driving force that prompts wireless technology innovation. As development into 5G technology advances, connected systems will continue to grow in complexity and reliance on one another. This increase in...

Qualcomm demonstrates it’s ‘more than mobile’ with automotive, XR partnerships

LAS VEGAS – During a CES 2022 press event Tuesday, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon presented several new partnerships spanning several markets, proving once again, that “there is more to Qualcomm” than its mobility technology. Most notably, though, were the company’s announcements around its continued...

Four notable developments in indoor location during 2021

This year was supposed to mark a major milestone in the ability to locate wireless devices indoors when callers dial 911, so that first responders can reach them faster. It didn't quite pan out that way; development and implementation of the technologies that enable...

AWS touts efficiency, performance of new AWS-powered EC2 instances

Amazon's said its new chips powering its latest EC2 instances offer customers big performance gains and greatly improved energy efficiency.

Picocom hits the ‘sweet spot’ with new small cell SoC for Open RAN

The PC802 SoC is a purpose-designed SoC for 5G NR/LTE small cell disaggregated and integrated RAN architectures Picocom has introduced the PC802 SoC (system on chip), a flexible, low power device that the company claims “empowers the innovation of a new breed of 5G NR...

FTC sues to stop Nvidia’s Arm acquisition

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Nvidia Corp. to stop its US$40 billion acquisition of UK-based Arm Ltd. from Japan's SoftBank.

In a world where AI is ubiquitous and democratized…

Qualcomm sees AI as instrumental to its expansion beyond smartphones Editor’s note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with the Snapdragon Tech Summit. KONA, HAWAII--“The concept is this,” Qualcomm VP of Technology Jeff Gehlhaar told me in the press lounge at the Fairmont Orchid....

Qualcomm is on a mmWave mission; ‘This is how you get the full potential of 5G,’ CEO says

Fourth-generation Qualcomm X65 Modem-RF System features mmWave/sub-6 GHz aggregation, supports 3.5 Gbps uplink speed Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with the Snapdragon Tech Summit. KONA, HAWAII--Qualcomm was an early proponent of millimeter wave (mmWave), doing the engineering work that has...

The $700 billion opportunity—Qualcomm CEO lays out 10-year vision

Diversification and the market moving towards mobile make “the time of Qualcomm right now” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon’s message to investors at an event in New York City today was crystal clear. “This is the time of Qualcomm right now. We’re truly diversifying. The market...

Qualcomm’s chip business booms despite global shortage

Qualcomm reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion beating analysts’ projections Qualcomm this week reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectation in terms of total revenue and earnings per share. The San Diego-based company reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion with the chips business growing 56%...

Supply chain constraints finally caught up to the smartphone market: IDC report

The latest IDC report revealed that global smartphone shipments are down 6.7% as a result of the ongoing chip shortage Despite a double-digit annual growth rate in the first half of 2021— 25% in the first quarter of 2021 and more than 13% in the second...