In recent years, Qualcomm's development in the mobile field is quite remarkable, mainly due to the application of the Snapdragon mobile platform in major mobile phone manufacturers. In addition to the rapid development of the mobile field, Qualcomm has also invested a considerable amount of energy in other fields, and now it is a state of full bloom, including the XR field and the automotive field, Qualcomm's technical strength and business maturity are quite good. At the recent CES 2022 conference, Qualcomm said that it has reached cooperation with a number of well-known manufacturers, including giants such as Microsoft and Volvo.
In the XR space, Qualcomm announced a collaboration with Microsoft at CES 2022 to jointly develop custom chips capable of achieving energy-efficient lightweight AR glasses that will power Microsoft's ecosystem with future augmented reality glasses. At the same time, Qualcomm CEO Anmon also officially announced that the Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces XR development platform will be fully integrated into Microsoft Mesh, which will be available for the next generation of light glasses. This move is actually to accelerate the application of AR in consumers and enterprises, and there will be very good prospects for development in the future.
In fact, the cooperation between Microsoft and Qualcomm is not particularly surprising, because Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 chip has been supplied to Microsoft's HoloLens 2 headset as early as 2019. Today, the two companies are skewing chip cooperation towards ultralight augmented reality glasses, which obviously has a more long-term vision. Qualcomm and Microsoft have also said that this cooperation is to jointly create a metaverse future based on trust and innovation, Qualcomm's core has always been cutting-edge technology, providing specially built XR chipsets, and Microsoft is to provide a more secure flat flat, has helped the overall system system to finally achieve the goal of the metacosm.
While there is a better development in the XR field, Qualcomm has also ushered in a major development opportunity in the automotive field, and on the eve of ces 2022, it showed us the Dragon Digital Chassis Solution, which is a complete set of open and extensible linking platforms that greatly support the function upgrade of the next generation of cars throughout the life cycle. These include the Snapdragon Ride platform, the Snapdragon cockpit platform, the Snapdragon Auto Connect platform, and the Snapdragon car-to-cloud service, which also means that Snapdragon's digital chassis covers all hardware and software, providing a complete set of open platforms that use enhanced security features to help accelerate the car's intelligent connected experience.
This complete set of automotive platforms has also been recognized by more partners, in addition to the previously announced cooperation with BMW, Qualcomm also announced an agreement with Volvo and Polestar brands at CES 2022. And starting this year, the new car will be equipped with Qualcomm's "Snapdragon Cockpit" chip and Google's operating system, which is enough to see the technical strength of Qualcomm core core. In addition, Honda also announced that it will use Qualcomm's third-generation "Snapdragon Cockpit", and Renault will also dock new cars to connect to the Qualcomm platform, provide driving assistance, cockpit experience and cloud services, which is enough to see qualcomm's development in the automotive field.
It can be seen that Qualcomm is not limited to the unilateral development of the mobile field, but a comprehensive layout, and all fields have achieved good results. According to statistics, Qualcomm's automotive platform business has included BMW, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and as many as 37 partners in China, such as the Great Wall, BYD, and Weilai, and such achievements are indeed very remarkable. At the same time, the cooperation between the XR field and Microsoft will also promote the application of meta-universe on the consumer side and the enterprise side, Qualcomm's scientific and technological strength is undoubtedly quite strong, and its development prospects are indeed worthy of recognition.