Set micro-mesh news, as an annual feast of science and technology, MWC 2018 international manufacturers show new technologies often means that the new trend of science and technology in the conference, Qualcomm can be said to be full of sincerity, not only demonstrated Its latest products and technologies for many popular areas such as 5G, IoT, AI, smart home, smart driving and smart terminals also introduce the latest Snapdragon 700 series mobile platforms and RF front-end products. Come and follow Xiaobian together Eyes it!
Xiaolong 700 series mobile platform
The new Snapdragon 700 series mobile platform is designed to meet and exceed the mobile experiences of today's high-end smartphones with the features and capabilities previously previously only available on the top Snapdragon 800 series mobile platforms.
Snapdragon 700 series mobile platform designed to bring the following improvements:
Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Snapdragon 700 Series integrates the AI Engine, a multi-core Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence engine, which offers twice as much enhancement in terminal-side AI applications compared to the Snapdragon 660. With the help of heterogeneous computing, The new 700 Series architecture, the Hexagon Vector Processor, the Adreno Vision Processing Subsystem, and the Kryo CPU work together to easily capture and share video, learn sound and voice, and keep your device in gear without having to switch apps or change settings, A charge, long life.
Snapshots: Snapdragon 700 series will fully demonstrate the strength of Qualcomm Spectra ISP, allowing users to use either slow motion or night mode shooting, or assisted by the AI shooting, always fall in love with the capture of their own moments of life experience. In addition, by Xiao Dragon 700 series of high-quality technical specifications, is expected to support many additional professional-level shooting.
Performance and Battery: The Snapdragon 700 Series will debut several new architectures across the entire mobile platform including the Qualcomm Spectra ISP, Kryo CPU and Adreno Vision Processing Subsystem, delivering up to 30% power over the Snapdragon 660 mobile platform Boost, and deliver superior performance and battery life across multiple applications, the Snapdragon 700 Series will also benefit from Quick Charge ™ 4+ technology, which delivers up to 50% power in 15 minutes.
Connectivity: The Snapdragon 700 Series will feature a complete suite of advanced wireless technologies that support Extreme LTE, Carrier Wi-Fi features, and Enhanced Bluetooth 5.
It is reported that the first series of Snapdragon 700 mobile platform is expected to be commercially available to customers in the first half of 2018.
Mobile terminal
During MWC, Qualcomm announced that Sony Mobile's new Xperia XZ2 smartphone features a complete Q ualcomm RF front-end (RFFE) modem-to-antenna solution that integrates X20 gigabit LTE Qualcomm Snapdragon ™ 845 Mobile platform, and supports 4K HDR video capture capabilities.
In addition, Samsung covers the S9 and S9 + Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile platform with movie-quality Ultra HD Premium video and lightning-fast gigabit LTE connectivity Snapdragon 845 mobile platform designed for enthusiastic consumers of technology Carefully engineered for the world's leading flagship mobile devices, Leveraging Qualcomm's industry-leading mobile heterogeneous computing expertise, it creates a platform that supports immersion including XR (end-of-expansion), endpoint AI, and lightning fast connection speeds Multimedia experience platform, while introducing a new security processing unit (SPU), can bring such as the safety of the vault.
Always connected PC
After ASUS, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo unveiled their always-connected PCs equipped with Snapdragon mobile PC platforms respectively, Qualcomm also announced a partnership with Microsoft to lead retailers to deliver always-connected PCs to consumers, and based on the always connected PC category Growth momentum of development, many mobile operators around the world are ready to support Windows 10 PCs equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile PC platforms on 4G / LTE networks.
It is reported that always-connected PCs will be able to use Extreme 4G / LTE in the following leading mobile operator networks: Australia-Telstra, China-China Mobile, France-Transitl, Germany-Deutsche Telekom, Ireland-Cubic, Spain- Spain Telecom, Switzerland -Swisscom, USA - T-Mobile and AT & T.
VR
Qualcomm has been pushing the boundaries of mobile VR and has released 20 designs in succession, and on the eve of MWC 2018 Qualcomm announced a new VR platform based on the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile platform.
It is reported that Snapdragon 845 mobile VR platform will be based on the success of Snapdragon 835 mobile VR platform based on the success of the number of VR won the CES 2018 Awards terminal.Golle Co., Ltd. and close cooperation between the more makes Global manufacturers can quickly build commercial designs based on the Snapdragon 845 mobile VR platform.
AI Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine AI Engine announced the artificial intelligence engine AI Engine by a number of hardware and software components to accelerate the terminal side of the artificial intelligence user experience in some Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platform to achieve the Snapdragon 845, Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 820, Snapdragon 660 mobile platforms will support the AI Engine, which Snapdragon 845 will support the most advanced terminal-side artificial intelligence.
It is reported that a number of smart phone manufacturers have taken advantage of artificial intelligence engine AI Dragon components Xiaolong mobile platform, including Xiaomi, Canada, vivo, OPPO, Motorola, Asus, ZTE, Nubian, hammer and black shark. Of artificial intelligence software development companies also bring exclusive use case optimization for Snapdragon mobile platforms such as Shang Tang Technology and Kuang Shi Face ++ offers a variety of pre-trained neural networks, Elliptic Labs provides Xiaolong customers with ultrasonic-based smart phones Gesture control technology, rainbow soft Xiaolong customers with single camera and double shooting algorithm, a creation of the United States for artificial intelligence visual cases and terminals provide a complete solution.
In addition, cloud service leaders have also optimized the artificial intelligence features in applications for Snapdragon smartphones, such as Tencent recently introduced an interactive feature called 'High Energy Dance Room' in its mobile QQ application , Adding to the popular mobile QQ social platform.In the Android side of the mobile QQ, the use of artificial intelligence engine AI Engine components to speed up the characteristics of the frame rate.In addition, Baidu also plans to fully support Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine AI Engine and Its ecosystem.
During this MWC, Qualcomm conducted the following product demonstrations: In-Depth Portrait from Elliptic Labs, INNER MAGIC ™, Style Transformation from 2D and Face 2D Lock, Animoji from Opencast Face ++ and QQ from Tencent Mobile QQ 'High energy dance room'.
5G
In 2018, Qualcomm continued the momentum of the rapid development of the previous year in the field of 5G.
On February 8, Nokia and Qualcomm completed the 5G new air interface network and key terminal test. On the same day, Qualcomm announced the new 5G air interface (NR) modem series has been adopted by many mobile terminal manufacturers around the world. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem is also used worldwide Multiple wireless network operators selected;
On February 14, Qualcomm demonstrated a number of advanced 5G technologies for the next phase of the global 5G new air interface (5G NR) standard currently being developed by the 3GPP.
On February 21, Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm announced that they plan to extend their 10-year OEM cooperation to the EUV lithography process, which will include manufacturing Qualcomm's future with the Samsung 7-nm LPP (Low Power Plus) EUV process technology Dragon 5G mobile chipset.
On February 22, Qualcomm and Huawei jointly announced that they have successfully completed the 5G NR interoperability test based on 3GPP Release 15. The test leverages Qualcomm's UE prototype and Huawei's 5G commercial system to accelerate Release 15 5G NR A key milestone in ecosystem maturity.
During the MWC 2018, Qualcomm also released several good news related to 5G: First, Qualcomm's 5G network capacity simulation experiment can provide 5G for a non-independent (NSA) multimode 4G / 5G new air interface network And gigabit LTE terminals expect real performance and user experience to provide quantitative insights to demonstrate the great potential of 5G; Second, Qualcomm released the latest Snapdragon 5G module solutions designed to help those who hope to take full advantage of 5G Technology original equipment manufacturer (OEM), enabling them to rapidly commercialize 5G in smartphones and in major vertical industries.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Qualcomm offers highly differentiated chipset products, reference designs and more than 30 proprietary platforms designed to power a broad range of leading brands in the Internet of Things (IoT) area. In 2017, Qualcomm's IoT revenue was more than $ 1 billion To help customers quickly and cost-effectively commercialize IoT products in a wide range of categories including wearables, voice and music products, webcams, robotics and drones, home control and automation, home entertainment, and business and industrial At the same time, Qualcomm said market opportunities for companies in the Internet of Things and security industries to serve up to $ 43 billion by 2020.
Qualcomm Wireless Edge Services and Qualcomm MDM9206 LTE IoT Global Multimode Modem's new LTE IoT Software Development Kit (SDK) have also been introduced to accelerate the creation of a huge new IoT ecosystem. Qualcomm also introduced the Dragon 820E embedded platform to expand its portfolio of embedded computing to support top-of-the-line applications for Internet of Things (IoT).
Wireless audio
Qualcomm has introduced Qualcomm TrueWireless Stereo Enhancements as consumers increasingly demand more for wireless headsets and speakers, and Qualcomm has also announced its move to wireless-enabled wireless Has supported its Broadcast Audio technology.
It is reported that, Qualcomm Broadcast Audio is designed to support multiple headphones or speakers from a Bluetooth source to almost perfect synchronization of audio streaming.In addition to Snapdragon 845 mobile platform, a series of Qualcomm Bluetooth audio system-on-chip (SoC) Qualcomm Broadcast Audio will be supported, including the CSR8670, CSR8675, CSRA68100 and the recently announced QCC5100 Bluetooth Low Energy Bluetooth SoC family for wireless earbuds and earphones.
In addition, the recently announced QCC5100 series of breakthrough Bluetooth audio SoCs support the next generation of Qualcomm TrueWireless technology, which is expected to be available in the second half of 2018.
Smart Driving Qualcomm is currently # 1 in semiconductor information technology for automotive telematics and Bluetooth connectivity solutions and has adopted a broad portfolio of automotive solutions for in-vehicle telematics, infotainment and connectivity for all major automotive manufacturers worldwide. , Qualcomm won 25 new in-car telematics and infotainment designs, and the ongoing design wins in these automotive segments total more than $ 3 billion, including more than $ 1 billion in infotainment.
In addition, Qualcomm is working with the ecosystem of leading automotive and automotive suppliers to accelerate the commercialization of cellular networking (C-V2X) using the Qualcomm 9150 C-V2X chipset solution.Currently Qualcomm is working with automotive manufacturers and Automotive ecosystem members collaborate in field verification of the C-V2X in Germany, France, South Korea, China, Japan and the United States Members of the automotive ecosystem interested in adopting Qualcomm solutions to bring C-V2X technology to the next generation include the Tier One LG Electronics, Continental, Ficosa-Panasonic, Lear and Valeo as well as cellular module makers Gemalto, LG Innotek, Telecommuting, Sierra Wireless, Telit, iSCSI and ZTE.
Qualcomm also presented some of the latest developments in the automotive segment at the MWC 2018 booth, including a concept car that highlights 5G and gigabit LTE usage scenarios, next-generation dashboards and infotainment configurations, and a cellular network from San Diego (C-V2X) pilot demo.
Smart home
Qualcomm announced that its Wi-Fi innovations are leading the industry in growth, redefining the customer experience and helping support smarter homes, and are leading the industry in transitioning to mesh networks with its pioneering Qualcomm mesh networking platform. "According to NPD According to the group's data, Mesh Networks' share of the US retail home Wi-Fi market has grown from just 5% 18 months ago to nearly 40% today, with Qualcomm taking a leading market share.
Almost all of the major OEMs, including Asustek, Belkin, D-Link, eero, Google, Linksys, Luma, Netgear, Samsung, UPU and Uberx Networks, are now Introduced advanced mesh Wi-Fi system to help enhance the next generation home experience.
Similarly, Qualcomm played an integral role in the Wi-Fi industry's most important standard transition ever undertaken - the emerging 802.11ax standard - a leader in the Wi-Fi industry that demonstrates Qualcomm's Invented and supported the central role that technology enables both consumers and OEMs to benefit from, a technology leadership that will continue with the 11ax design in 2018 through a robust design and program that supports mesh networking.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem
Qualcomm has been leading the gigabyte evolution of LTE technology and on February 14 Qualcomm announced that it has started sampling the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem as the world's first released Category 20 LTE modem that supports download speeds of up to 2 Gbps , The first chip to be released based on the advanced 7nm FinFET process technology.
RF front end
Mobile equipment construction will be an important part of the global 5G deployment and the RF Front-end (RFFE) subsystem will be one of the most challenging aspects of mobile equipment construction Qualcomm and Qualcomm and TDK's joint venture RF360 Singapore Limited The company (RF360 Holdings) was the first to announce a six-processor RF solution incorporating the latest BAW and SAW filtering technologies to support the best performance, size and cost in an increasingly complex The frequency, band combination.
The new six-processor solution can be integrated into a power amplifier module (PAMiD), including duplexer modules, and provides the key acoustic building blocks for the next generation of PAMiD modules. The BAW and SAW based six- Is an upgrade to the previous generation quadruplex that will be the key to designing a single antenna terminal with a thin form factor by supporting very competitive RF performance for carrier aggregation in gigabit LTE and future 5G multimode terminals .
It is reported that the new six-processor solution is scheduled to put into production in 2018, leading OEM manufacturers are expected to be released in 2019 commercial terminal.
Integrated 2x2 802.11ax solution
QUALCOMM Releases the industry's first integrated 2x2 802.11ax solution for smartphones, tablets and laptops to provide OEMs with the most important 11ax features before fully standardized and certified Qualcomm's new WCN3998 solution for client terminals The solution delivers significant security and Wi-Fi experience by supporting WPA3 security protocols, doubling network throughput and up to 67% less Wi-Fi power than previous 11ac Wave-2 solutions Consumption
It is reported that, WCN3998 solution plan in the second quarter of 2018 to Qualcomm customers.