Qualcomm Partners with Meta and Bose

Qualcomm President and CEO, Cristiano Amon, delivered the opening keynote of IFA 2022 in Berlin. During his hour-long speech, he highlighted the important thing improvements of Qualcomm’s newest compute platform, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1.

One of the important thing pillars of high-end Qualcomm expertise is Snapdragon Connect, the “best in class 5G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth”.

Amon’s imaginative and prescient for Snapdragon Connect is to ”construct the inspiration of the cloud-connected society for the gigabit society, making use of each single spectrum and use intelligence to ship fully new experiences of connectivity”.

Snapdragon sound is one other key pillar of the Qualcomm platform. “In addition to modem and AI, we see that sound now matters more than ever[…] we have been focusing on building the best audio experience possible with Snapdragon sound,” stated Amon.

According to Amon, Snapdragon sound is devoted to delivering high-resolution audio, lossless Bluetooth music streaming, lag-free audio experiences, and noise cancellation.

Qualcomm’s newest client analysis exhibits that for 85% of individuals, crystal-clear calls are key buy drivers when they’re on the lookout for wi-fi headphones and 58% stated lossless or high-resolution audio is the primary buying driver for earbuds, a pattern that’s rising for 3 years straight.

Cristiano Amon and Lila Snyder, CEO, Bose, introduced a partnership between Qualcomm and  Bose, which signifies that Qualcomm S5 Audio SoC will present strong connectivity, ultra-low energy, and superior processing to future Bose merchandise.

Toward the top of the keynote, collectively with Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Cristiano Amon introduced a multi-year broad strategic settlement to deepen technical collaboration between each firms’ engineering and product groups for the event of customized Snapdragon XR chips for the long run Meta Quest VR headsets and different Meta gadgets.

“By partnering with Meta, we are bringing together two of the world’s metaverse leaders to revolutionize the future of computing for billions of people in the coming years,” stated Cristiano Amon, president and chief government officer, Qualcomm.

You can watch the full keynote here.

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