Editor’s note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit.
HAWAII—With the launch of its ambitious Oryon CPU for PCs and plan to embed the 12-core powerhouse across its business segments, Qualcomm is changing. Whereas previous iterations of the annual Snapdragon Summit...
The new suite of products include the Qualcomm QCS8550, Qualcomm QCM8550, Qualcomm QCS4490 and Qualcomm QCM4490 processors
Qualcomm Technologies announced new IoT solutions with the aim of expanding the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and IoT use cases.
The announcement was made at the Hannover Messe...
EE recently announced its 5G network has already reached 60% population coverage in the U.K.
U.K. operator EE, which is part of BT Group, said it has expanded its 5G network infrastructure to cover hundreds of localities in rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland.
In...
This QoS managed connectivity demonstration was conducted in a field trial set up at the Deutsche Telekom campus in Bonn
Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have implemented a priority scheduling mechanism in a 5G Standalone (SA) NR-DC (dual connectivity) network using both mmWave and...
As automotive architectures evolve to support electrification, Qualcomm focused on automated driving, digital cockpit and vehicle connectivity
Vehicles are evolving very quickly and along multiple vectors—complex systems of cameras, LIDAR, radar and other sensors are being employed for assisted and autonomous driving; digital cockpits are...
Ian Wong, director of RF and wireless architecture at Viavi Solutions, said that future 6G systems should focus more on delivering new applications rather than just increasing the capacity for services already enabled by 4G and 5G
Although 5G is still very much a...
The three partners tested the 5G enterprise network slicing solution at OPPO’s 5G Communications Lab
Ericsson, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies have successfully trialed a 5G enterprise network slicing solution on a commercial Android 12 handset.
The pre-commercial trial used Ericsson’s Dynamic Network Slicing Selection, a recent...
Qualcomm announced the appointment of Jim Cathey as the new chief commercial officer of Qualcomm Technologies.
Cathey takes the role effectively immediately, and will report directly to Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon.
Cathey has been with Qualcomm since 2006, most recently in the role...
Qualcomm said that the new camera IoT solution is designed to help safeguard environments with smart devices at the connected intelligent edge
Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the firms’ latest smart camera IoT solution, with the aim of supporting safety across enterprises and cities.
In a release, the...
The connected intelligent edge is growth opportunity connectivity, processing, AI and more
First detailed last year at a capital markets event and impactfully contextualized at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm is moving fast on its strategy of expanding addressable market 7-fold to...
5G’s higher throughput and lower latency positions the technology as a pillar of industrial IoT, promising to bring about new applications and expand the boundaries of what is possible within an enterprise setting. At its San Diego campus, Qualcomm highlighted the growing need for...
Qualcomm working to help operators simplify 5G mmWave planning and deployment while optimizing performance
Operators are using mmWave spectrum today to deliver multi-Gbps experiences, “But its role will expand as we pave the way to the future of 5G and beyond,” according to Qualcomm Technologies’...
Cellular has ‘all the ingredients’ for enhanced indoor and IoT precise positioning
Smartphones and other compact positioning devices use satellite systems like GNSS to provide positioning. However, to be most effective, GNSS requires a clear line of sight to multiple satellites, and even at its...
The leap to higher order modulation doesn’t require a 5G base station upgrade
Sustainability is top of mind for governments, corporations, investors and individuals. Against this backdrop, the global Information and Communications Technology sector is uniquely poised to not only make itself more efficient and...
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...
Qualcomm sees the combo of cooperative radar sensing, C-V2X sidelink positioning and smart RSUs as key to improving road safety
As part of its commitment to intelligent transportation systems, Qualcomm’s R&D team demonstrated 5G connectivity, C-V2X ranging and positioning, and smart RSUs at the company’s...
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...
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica announced the successful validation of its new Open RAN 5G Standalone small cell.
In a release, the European carrier said that the demonstration was carried out by Node-H and Askey in Telefonica’s Technology & Automation Lab.
Telefonica noted that this demo is...
5G Advanced covers end-to-end system enhancements and expansion to more device types and use cases
Global 5G deployments are outpacing historical LTE deployment trends, and adoption of compatible smartphones is similarly ahead of expectations. But 5G is still very much a work in progress with...
Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm’s VP of engineering, says that one of the things that differentiates Qualcomm from other tech companies is its “if you build it, they will come” research mentality: Trying to envision and build technologies that will support what future applications could...
Vodafone Germany launched its 5G standalone (SA) network in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and OPPO.
Vodafone upgraded 1,000 sites to SA 5G, covering 170 cities and municipalities via 3.5 GHz spectrum. The new network was initially launched in some major cities including Frankfurt, Berlin,...
Japanese operator SoftBank has launched its 5G mmWave service, using devices based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms and modem-RF Systems, Qualcomm Technologies said in a release.
The chipmaker noted that the launch of 5G mmWave will allow Japanese users to have access to the...
Five key 5G NR technologies to enhance millimeter wave (mmWave) system performance and deployment efficiency in 3GPP Release 16 and beyond
Since I wrote about how we solved the impossible challenge of mobilizing mmWave in 2019, the mobile ecosystem has made tremendous progress commercializing 5G...
Signals Research Group (SRG) has been actively involved in tracking the advancement of 5G NR since its inception in September 2015 at a 3GPP workshop, held in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time, no one knew for certain what 5G NR would look like, what...
