Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly taking hold in many places to provide enormous benefits with improved utility and efficiency in various cellular capabilities. It is significantly affecting how networks are designed and operated. But some applications of AI are much more straightforward and less...
No single company, network or technology can build the metaverse. Instead, the industry will have to tap into every available foundational technology across the ecosystem, from the very edge of the network all the way to the devices themselves. 5G and Wi-Fi, high-powered cameras...
Qualcomm focusing R&D efforts on Giga-MIMO to support future spectrum deployments
The early vision of 5G, which has come to life based on global operator-led deployments, involved a mix of low-, mid- and high-band frequencies to strike the right balance between coverage and capacity. Looking...
Qualcomm SVP of Engineering talks 5G, AI and IoT at Mobile World Congress 2023
In addition to its long-standing leadership in smartphone and other mobile devices, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a driving force in the research and standards work that has defined 5G New Radio, 5G...
Qualcomm is leveraging automotive connectivity for assisted and autonomous driving, digital cockpit, and more
As Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said during CES, the company is “all in on auto.” With its Snapdragon Digital Chassis, a platform designed to facilitate the transition to software-defined vehicles via...
Qualcomm brings multi-vendor automation and SMO capabilities to private networks with the Edgewise Suite
As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more gain interest and adoption, private networks, including 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi, are emerging as a...
Air interface innovations and new services on the way with 5G Advanced and 6G
In addition to driving the ongoing standardization of 5G Advanced and early scoping of 6G, Qualcomm engages in long-term foundational research geared toward identifying and solving problems facing ever-evolving mobile networks....
The notion of mmWave for a mobility use case has gone from being the subject of skepticism to the subject of massive investment for operators looking to keep up with capacity demands. In addition to helping offload traffic from sub-7 GHz 5G networks, mmWave...
Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...
As diversification strategy plays out, Qualcomm tells shareholders about momentum in automotive, edge networking, IoT
“We’re very excited about the future of Qualcomm,” CEO Critiano Amon said earlier this month at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. “And we continue to believe that the best of...
Telkomsel and its partners started a 5G FWA trial with sub-6 spectrum and mmWave extended range
Indonesian telco Telkomsel announced a partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies to continue with its 5G trials in the Asian nation.
Telkomsel noted that the new 5G trial will use...
Late news out of MWC; Schneider Electric, Capgemini, and Qualcomm Technologies have worked together to develop an automated hoisting solution to attach to private 5G networks. The trio called it a “first-of-its-kind” solution; a prototype has been installed at Schneider Electric’s hoisting lab in...
BARCELONA--Every year at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) event in Barcelona, the world’s biggest telecom operators gather among the smartphone OEMs and chip vendors to show off their latest achievements. This year, many of the telcos coalesced around Qualcomm’s XR platform, Snapdragon Spaces. Seven...
Dell announced new partnerships with Nokia, Qualcomm, Amdocs and Juniper Networks
BARCELONA, SPAIN - Dell Technologies kicked off Mobile World Congress Barcelona in a big way, announcing a string of industry collaborations that all aim to bolster the open telecom ecosystem.
The first two new...
Telefonica noted that the new 5G network will allow compatible user devices to access the 5G mmWave network during MWC 2023
Telefónica, Ericsson and Qualcomm aim to launch what they say is the first commercial mobile 5G mmWave network in Spain during Mobile World Congress...
Delivering a 5G Advanced-ready modem/RF system will help Qualcomm continue to deliver on its diversification strategy
Qualcomm today gave a first look at its new Snapdragon X75 Modem/RF System that is being positioned as providing device OEMs an evolutionary path forward to 3GPP Rel. 18...
5G NR-Light is considered ideal for use cases like surveillance cameras, wearables and consumer IoT devices
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System chipset, a 5G NR-Light — or reduced capability (RedCap) — modem designed for lower-cost, smaller form-factor devices. According to the...
In Q1 of its fiscal 2023, Qualcomm revenues were down but diversification strategy seems to be working
Global macroeconomic headwinds, as well as weak demand and an inventory drawdown hitting the handset business, impacted Qualcomm’s Q1; the company reported a 12% year-over-year revenue decrease to...
Qualcomm CEO: "The technology you find today in your phone, you can simply think about this future where every other device can have the same technology”
Joining business and government leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon...
To serve the array of high-performance devices populating today’s hyper-connected homes and take full advantage of the Gigabit and multi-Gigabit broadband connections increasingly available to households across the globe, a new class of Wi-Fi home networks has arrived. This webinar will discuss how the...
The last couple of years have taken its toll on many high-tech companies and industries. That includes the wireless and mobile industry and companies in the segment like Qualcomm, Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, NTT, HTC, Samsung, MediaTek, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Dell, Broadcom, Texas Instruments and...
The solution uses Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF Systems and Iridium satellite constellation's weather-resistant L-band spectrum
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Satellite, announced at CES 2023, is designed to provide global, two-way messaging capabilities for smartphones. The solution is supported by Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF Systems and weather-resilient L-band spectrum...
There is a clear dichotomy in the cellular IoT market – high-throughput and high-power IoT applications powered by advanced 4G (LTE) and 5G at one end, and low-throughput and low-power applications powered by cellular IoT technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M at the other. And...
