MWC 2019: Qualcomm Press Conference Live Blog (9:00PM UTC)

04:00AM 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.