Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14023/mwc-2019-qualcomm-press-conference-live-blog-900pm-utc
MWC 2019: Qualcomm Press Conference Live Blog (9:00PM UTC)
by Andrei Frumusanu on February 25, 2019 3:55 AM EST04:00AM EST - Hello everybody, today we're on location for Qualcomm's MWC keynote event.
04:00AM EST - We're expecting talks about 5G and new WiFi solutions.
04:00AM EST - Introductory video about 5G connectivity.
04:01AM EST - Cristiano Amon taking the stage.
04:03AM EST - "The invention age" - introducing new breakthrough technologies
04:03AM EST - Making parallels to past industrial revolutions.
04:04AM EST - 5G will bring a period of accelerated innovation
04:04AM EST - "It was very clear that mobile broadband require you to have a computer in your hands"
04:05AM EST - "First company to have a 1GHz processor in your hands"
04:05AM EST - Talking about the initial 4G deployments and how Qualcomm foresaw the needs.
04:05AM EST - AI Processing is the fastest growing silicon era.
04:06AM EST - Transition from the cloud to the edge is a transformative era.
04:06AM EST - 5G is here now - Yesterday for example we saw a live 5G call between Xiaomi and Spain's Orange network operator.
04:07AM EST - Deployment is beginning around the world. - 4G was launched in 2009, 10 years ago.
04:07AM EST - Starting with mobile phones, but the potential is far beyond smartphones.
04:07AM EST - Going back to 2009 in the first year of the 4G launch. Verizon was the first.
04:08AM EST - Four operators and 3 OEMs back then.
04:08AM EST - Today over 20 operators building networks and 20+ OEMs having ready devices in the pipeline.
04:08AM EST - "It's very clear to Qualcomm that the 5G transition will be faster than 4G"
04:09AM EST - Noting last week's Samsung's 5G launch. Also mentioning Oppo, Sony and Xiaomi's 5G product launches.
04:09AM EST - Global deployments in the US, Europe, China, Korea sub-6GHz and mmWave.
04:10AM EST - Vodaphone GTO Johan Wibergh taking the stage talking about their 5G deployment.
04:12AM EST - "10 times the performance of 4G"
04:12AM EST - 4 countries in Europe that are currently pioneering the deployment.
04:12AM EST - 4 countries in Europe that are currently pioneering the deployment.
04:12AM EST - Bringing it to customers in Europe in the second half of 2019.
04:13AM EST - "Easy process" in upgrading base-stations, just adding a new radio and in some cases replacing the BS node.
04:14AM EST - "4G was the era of the smartphone" - 5G will start with mobiles, but will be the era of IoT
04:14AM EST - Back to Cristiano.
04:15AM EST - "The year of the 855 Snapdragon"
04:16AM EST - 30+ design wins for the 855
04:16AM EST - The right chipset exceeding all mobile benchmarks, connectivity and gaming with leading AI capability.
04:17AM EST - Recapping the chip's new AI capabilities such as the new HVX and and new Tensor cores.
04:17AM EST - First devices available in Q2
04:17AM EST - "We see all regions in the world launching at the same time"
04:18AM EST - This is brought by a mature market - with a clear understanding of smartphones.
04:19AM EST - 5G devices are going to inefficient and power hungry - Introducing new 5G PowerSave feature?
04:19AM EST - This might be a branding name for Qualcomm's new RF power efficiency features.
04:20AM EST - CDRX combined with a set of new technologies
04:20AM EST - (CDRX is a normal 3GPP standard feature)
04:20AM EST - "Putting to rest industry's concern about battery life"
04:21AM EST - Switching over to 5G new usecases and improvements
04:21AM EST - 3x improvement in latency for sub-6GHz and up to 20x in mmWave
04:21AM EST - 3x to 10x improvement in throughput (sub-6 and mmWave)
04:22AM EST - Video streaming will be as easy as streaming music
04:23AM EST - Google VP of marketing Bob Borchers joining the stage.
04:25AM EST - Talking about how Android is the foundation enabling the ecosystem.
04:28AM EST - Covering how everybody was wrong about the first 5G smartphones
04:29AM EST - Proving them wrong via the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G that was released just a few days ago
04:30AM EST - Recapping last week's product announcements such as the new 5G X55 modem
04:32AM EST - Read about the announcements in our news piece: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13966/qualcomm-announces-x55-modem
04:32AM EST - The X55 devices are expected to ship late 2019.
04:33AM EST - Announcing a new Snapdragon platform with integrated 5G modem
04:33AM EST - Essentially announcing next year's Snapdragon SoC.
04:34AM EST - The timing of the sampling should be relatively in line, maybe a quarter earlier, than last few generation SoCs.
04:35AM EST - Samsung's SVP & head of technology strategy tem, Dr June Hee Lee taking the stage
04:36AM EST - Congratulating Qualcomm on their introduction of 5G, and will be providing products with the chips in the near future.
04:37AM EST - "Samsung has at the forefront of bringing 5G from concept to product"
04:37AM EST - Samsung has been a leader for several years now in regards to mmWave implementation
04:38AM EST - Galaxy S10 5G running on a 5G networks unlocks new possibilities
04:40AM EST - "5G changes everything because of its latency and density"
04:43AM EST - Now switching over to 5G deployments
04:45AM EST - WiFi 6 announcements from Qualcomm
04:46AM EST - Small cells will be playing a much bigger role
04:46AM EST - Rakuten 5G network deployment will be accelerated through small-cells
04:46AM EST - Using the Qualcomm FSM platforms
04:47AM EST - Fueling fixed wireless broadband
04:48AM EST - Announcing ability to support CPE deployments with Qualcomm's chips
04:48AM EST - Smartphone 20dBm maximum power - CPE have up to 40dBm
04:49AM EST - An ability of the X55 chipset.
04:49AM EST - New QCA6390 Wifi 6 (802.11ax) chipset
04:50AM EST - Read all about it in detail in our news post : https://www.anandtech.com/show/13993/qualcomm-launches-the-qca6390-chipset-18-gbps-wifi-6-ready-with-bluetooth-51
04:52AM EST - Working hard to bring Release 16 to market - expanding the 5G standard features
04:53AM EST - Next year's press conference will be covering the new industry evolutions
04:53AM EST - The new Snapdragon 8CX with the X55 modem bring a full 5G connected PC.
04:54AM EST - Lenovo is building a 5G PC with the Snapdragon 8CX
04:55AM EST - Rene Haas from Arm taking the stage
04:55AM EST - Been working with Qualcomm and Microsoft for some time to bring the Arm PC to market
04:59AM EST - Talking about Microsoft's Hololens: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14020/microsoft-at-mwc-2019-hololens-2-and-azure-kinect
04:59AM EST - Thanking Microsoft's use of the Snapdragon 850.
05:00AM EST - Swiching to automotive - It's mobile, but different
05:01AM EST - Announcing the next generation car platform with 5G.
05:03AM EST - "The next big opportunity is 5G IoT
05:04AM EST - Many sensors creating mission critical data
05:04AM EST - Qualcomm robotics R2B platform
05:05AM EST - Bosch IoT director Andreas Mueller taking the stage
05:05AM EST - Transitioning the factory from the past to the factory of the future
05:09AM EST - Bosch's key aspects for industrial IoT applications
05:09AM EST - Private networks and frequencies, low-latency communication, quality of service, time-sensitive networking and positioning
05:10AM EST - Industrial IoT can be the killer application for 5G
05:10AM EST - Smartphones are a saturated market, industry is different
05:11AM EST - A factory and group of factories can be a network
05:11AM EST - Huge market potential worth billions of dollars
05:13AM EST - That's it for Bosch
05:14AM EST - Cristiano reiterating that it's going to be a much faster transition
05:14AM EST - "The best years of Qualcomm are ahead of us"
05:15AM EST - "It's not just about the phones at MWC - it's about doing everything in parallel"
05:16AM EST - That's a wrap, thank you all for being with us.