Lagging behind

Huawei plans to make CPE ((customer premises equipment)  infrastructure devices in the first half of 2019 but it looks like 5G for phones won’t happen before 2H 2019.

Wants assurance ZTE Corp ban gets lifted

People close to the matter claim that China warmed up to the NXP Semiconductor acquisition by Qualcomm seeking assurances that the ZTE Corp 7 year ban will get lifted by the USA.

Bringing edge on-device AI to developers in China

Qualcomm was keen to mention the new deal with Thundercomm at its  AI Day in Beijing, which will bring the new Qualcomm on-device artificial intelligence to developers in China.

Focus on AI and bringing high end features to mainstream

Qualcomm has officially announced its newest Snapdragon 710 SoC at the Qualcomm AI Day in Beijing, China, bringing up to 2x the performance of the previous generation Snapdragon 660 SoC, with a big focus on AI, as well as offering some of the premium features from the high-end Snapdragon 845 SoC.

FSM100xx industry’s first

Qualcomm has announced the industry’s first 5G NR solution targeted for small cells and remote radio head deployments (FSM100xx).

802.11 ay mmWave, 10 Gbps+ speeds

It is not every day you hear that Facebook and Qualcomm go out out in public announcing a plan to work together to deliver high speed internet connectivity with Facebook Terragraph technology through the development of a multi-node wireless system based on 60GHz technology from Qualcomm. This can result in 10Gbps speeds.

Most secure Wi-Fi network in the industry

Back at Mobile World Congress 2018, Qualcomm announced 2x2 802.11ax-ready solution for smartphones and a few days back it announced that this and the future wireless platform will support the new WPA3 security protocol.

Could be the new Qualcomm Wear SoC

According to the latest rumours, Google is working on a Pixel-branded smartwatch, or smartwatches, which could be launched alongside the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL and 2nd-gen Pixel Buds. The word on the street is that it has the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear SoC.under the bonnet.

Share price rises

Qualcomm has decided to buy back $10 billion of its own stock to replace the previous $15 billion stock repurchase program announced in March 2015, which had $1.2 billion of repurchase authority remaining.

8nm and 10nm 2+6 cores

Qualcomm is expected to launch its 700 series rather soon and the latest leaks describe two rather robust products coming soon. The Snapdragon 700 series was launched by Cristiano Amon,  the company’s president at the Mobile World Congress 2018 without going into any details.