Qualcomm

Congratulations to both Qualcomm and Dr. Wanshi Chen who has been selected the next Chair of 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary. This is great recognition of wireless industry leadership for both Qualcomm and Dr. Chen. Qualcomm leadership in 3GPP brings the …

The most recent Apple phones have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 modem Several publications, including Fast Company and Bloomberg, have reported that Apple is working on the development of its own custom 5G modem. The modem, said to have been in the …

Airspan Networks plans to go public in the third quarter of this year via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company and use $166 million from the transaction to fuel its 5G ambitions in the midst of a global inflection …

Over the last several decades, Qualcomm has been and remains one of the most powerful and important companies in the global wireless space. As a leader in 5G, Qualcomm sees strong growth ahead for many years to comes as the …

The Qualcomm platform tackles audio from the phone to the earbud Qualcomm is hoping to address consumer wireless audio frustrations with the announcement of Snapdragon Sound, a new end-to-end optimized audio platform. According to the company’s VP & GM, Voice …

Our R&D focus to unlock the next chapter of 5G and the 5G technology demonstrations you can expect to see at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2021 The past 12 months has seen many challenges, and the mobile ecosystem had to …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Dean Brenner and Alice Tornquist, Qualcomm (Bonus Episode) In this episode, Dean Brenner and Alice Tornquist of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., come back to provide an update on how U.S. policymakers are …

Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies announced a collaboration for accelerating 5G development in India. Recently, Airtel became India’s first telco to demonstrate 5G over a live commercial network in the city of Hyderabad.  Through Airtel’s network vendors …

Oskar, nine: ‘1G is like the parents and 5G is like the kids, so kids are faster and smarter’ Towards the end of 2019, Ericsson embarked on the silly and self-prescribed “crazy” task of explaining 5G to young children. Ultimately, …

Around one-third of the global population doesn’t have access to the internet and some that do don’t have reliable access. While cable and fiber could solve this, the economics of that aren’t tenable. 5G is viewed as another candidate for …

Qualcomm 4th generation 5G modem-RF system sampling now; device launches potentially coming this year For several days Qualcomm reps have been teasing new product announcements, asking “What’s next in 5G?” The question was answered this morning with the announcement of …

Qualcomm’s fiscal 2021 is off to a strong start with company executives reporting this week that first quarter revenues are up 63% year-over-year to $8.2 billion. The company has seen its 5G strategy play out “largely as expected,” according to …

On this week’s episode, Qualcomm Technologies VP of Technology Dr. Marta Karczewicz explains Versatile Video Coding and how it will contribute to future video streaming applications.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile’s 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and …

2021 will see more cell site deployments and the transition to standalone 5G At CES 2021, Dan Littmann from Deloitte Consulting spoke with AT&T Business’ CEO Anne Chow and Qualcomm’s Senior VP of Corporate Engineering Alejandro Holcman about 5G’s first …

After more than a decade of advanced R&D and ecosystem trials, commercial 5G mmWave service is now available in more than 55 U.S. cities and 160 areas in Japan. Looking forward, we expect 5G mmWave to expand into new geographic …

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf will be retiring June 30 after a successful 26-year run with the company. He will be replaced by Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon. Amon has been with the company since 1995. While there are always concerns when …

CEO Steve Mollenkopf retiring after 26 years with Qualcomm Qualcomm’s Board of Directors unanimously selected company President Cristiano Amon to take over the CEO position from Steve Mollenkopf effective June 30, the company announced today. Amon started working at Qualcomm …

The Snapdragon 480 supports millimeter-wave and sub-6 5G Qualcomm has kicked off the new year by announcing the Snapdragon 480, its first 5G chipset designed for affordable handsets that fall somewhere in the $200 price range. Lower-priced phones with 5G capability …

Swisscom, in partnership with Ericsson and handset maker OPPO, has successfully carried out 5G voice and data calls over a commercial 5G standalone network, the vendor said in a release. Ericsson said that all of Europe’s live 5G networks are …

Qualcomm has released a new ‘services suite’ that pulls together full-stack tech IoT componentry into a modular plug-and-play IoT solution for cities and city-based ‘verticals’. The chip-maker declared it has “cracked the code” for smart cities with the bundle, on …

The world urgently needs new digital tech, but the new digital tech urgently needs attention. So said the World Economic Forum this week, as it corralled together various private enterprises, public-sector groups, city authorities, and national governments around a ‘global …

Italian operator TIM, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies claimed a new world record for ultra-broadband long-distance speed with 5G technology applied to Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). A speed of 1 Gbps on 26 GHz millimeter-wave frequencies, at a distance of 6.5 …

Germany and Spain are set to receive the Nreal Light mixed reality glasses in spring of 2021 Vodafone Germany announced plans to introduce the Nreal Light glasses for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) over its 5G network, beginning with Germany …

Imaging, gaming and AI get big boosts with Snapdragon 888 On the second day of its Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit, company reps provided deep dives into key aspects of the forthcoming Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, giving a glimpse into …