The Economic Observer, as a fairly influential newspaper in the economic field, held the "2020-2021 Annual Meeting of Respected Enterprises" at the end of the year. At the annual meeting, Qualcomm Wireless Communication Technology (China) Co., Ltd. was named "2020-2021 China Respected Enterprise", which is the sixth consecutive year since 2016 that Qualcomm has received this award. The reason why Qualcomm can active this award many times is inseparable from their technical strength.
The organizers of the "2020-2021 Annual Conference of Respected Enterprises" believe that Qualcomm is the world's leading wireless technology innovator and a positive driving force for 5G research and development, commercialization and scale. It has to be said that Qualcomm has played a very key role in network construction, they achieved the goal of being the first in the smartphone RF front-end market revenue a year earlier than planned, and performed well in mobile phone network connectivity. Among them, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is equipped with the 4th generation Of Snapdragon X65 5G modem, which not only supports the R16 standard, but also supports the hybrid carrier aggregation of millimeter wave and Sub-6G, with quite perfect 5G capabilities.
On the basis of the success of the mobile market, Qualcomm has also completed business expansion across all categories, extending the advantages of its modems and RF to Wi-Fi, and applying the RF front end to the automotive and Internet of Things fields. On this basis, Qualcomm's RF front-end units have shipped 8 billion units this year, of which individual module shipments have exceeded 300 million. It is no exaggeration to say that Qualcomm has now become the mainstay of the global 5G network, and will continue to maintain a special position in the development of the Internet of Things, promote the development of the network, and bring users a better network experience.
On the basis of the outstanding performance of RF front-end capabilities, Qualcomm's capabilities have developed very well in many fields. Today, Qualcomm divides its business into four major segments, with four key business areas: smart phones, RF front-ends, automobiles, and logistics networks. Among them, the field of smart phones is the most familiar to everyone, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform CPU performance increased by 20%, energy efficiency increased by 30%, whether it is gaming capabilities or shooting capabilities have been fully upgraded, and now there are mainstream mobile phone manufacturers are hurrying to release the first batch of flagship models equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, which is about to erupt in January, we can wait and see.
It is worth mentioning that the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, as the crystallization of Qualcomm's technology, has a comprehensive strength of quite excellent and has a number of firsts. Among them, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has the world's first commercial 18-bit ISP for mobile devices, equipped with a new generation of mobile GPU Adreno 730, equipped with the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine, with stereoscopic rendering technology and variable resolution rendering advanced version; is the first Snapdragon platform to use a dedicated trust engine, and the comprehensive ability is worth affirming.
It can be found that Qualcomm not only performed well in the consumer market, but also received recognition from professionals, and in China, it can also be named "2020-2021 China Respected Enterprise" for several consecutive years, and its influence can be seen. Their diversified development is in the preliminary process, the future prospects can be described as quite broad, I believe it will bring us more excellent network and product experience.