On January 8, 2018, a great deal of information came pouring in on the day before the opening of CES 2018. Qualcomm announced a number of major announcements in its opening speech, something rare in the past.
150 billion US dollars of market opportunities are connected
Qualcomm is one of the 5G technology leader, Qualcomm CEO Christianiano Amon said expanding mobile technology coverage is a sustained growth strategy.
Qualcomm estimates that by 2020 connectivity will bring about $ 150 billion in tremendous opportunities, including $ 32 billion for mobile cores, $ 19 billion for data centers, $ 20 billion for RF front ends, $ 77 billion for industrial connections, $ 16 billion for autonomous drives, Mobile PC $ 7 Billion, IoT and Security $ 43 Billion, Network Connected $ 11 Billion Qualcomm received more than $ 3 billion in revenue from its non-handset business in 2017, a 75% increase over 2015. These non-handset businesses include automatic Driving, IoT, Mobile PC, Internet connection and more.
Faster speed, lower latency, wider bandwidth make people want to enjoy the extraordinary experience of the 5G early.Currently, the global 5G commercial process is accelerating, 5G NR will become a reality in 2019. Qualcomm opened Commercial test base station, has introduced a 5G chipset and 5G reference design of mobile phones, aroused widespread concern in the industry.It is understood that using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 chip 5G mobile phone will be out next year, 2019 officially support 5G mobile phone business.
About 5G commercial time, Qualcomm also brought us the voice of operators.
AT & T estimates that by the end of 2018 mobile 5G services will be available in dozens of markets.
Verizon announced that it will launch wireless residential broadband services in three to five U.S. territories by 2018.
China Mobile said it will launch a large-scale commercial 5G trial in China in 2019.
KT is committed to providing full service to the commercial market with true 5G standards as early as the beginning of 2019.
Always connect the PC, Lenovo's Snapdragon released tomorrow
Globally, smartphones have brought many changes to life.At present, 60% of the world's population has a mobile phone, a smart phone is the digital life of the city, but it is also a variety of network nodes, and now a variety of services can be Done on smartphone.
Qualcomm previously conducted a survey of consumers in China and the United States, the survey showed that for notebook demand, 60% of Chinese consumers need faster connectivity, 40% of the need for endurance, the US consumer demand is just the opposite. However, the demand for these two notebooks is the same, that is, connectivity and battery life Qualcomm Snapdragon platform notebook mainly to solve the three problems of the traditional notebook: First, to achieve anytime, anywhere connection, the use of mobile networks and WiFi two Second, you can sleep, restart, shut down, open the screen is available, the third is to get rid of the power cord, you can reach more than 20 hours of long life.
At the Snapdragon Tech Summit a month ago, Qualcomm came up with the concept of always-connected PCs, and the benefits of smartphones are ported to PCs that are lightweight, fanless and batteryless for over 20 hours without the need to carry a power cord, All-day available, stay on, these will override the user experience. Operating system is still familiar to all windows, the new user is really attractive.
Recently, we see the ASUS NovaGo equipped with win10 operating system and HP ENVY x2 first Xiaolong Technology Summit, but did not see the Lenovo figure, do you really think that the PC giant Lenovo did not catch the first shuttle Xiao Long? The fact is not So, tomorrow (January 9) at 11 am, Lenovo's first Snapdragon to be released, really looking forward to.