Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019: Partner Quote Sheet

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 3, 2019

AT&T:

“Together AT&T and Qualcomm Technologies continue to drive the industry forward to unleash the power of the next generation of wireless connectivity over 5G,” said Kevin Petersen, senior vice president, AT&T Mobility. “We worked closely with Qualcomm Technologies to be the first to introduce the U.S. to millimeter wave 5G last year, and we’re working together now to begin offering consumers and businesses the latest low-band 5G smartphone technology.”

HMD Global:

“Our highest priority for 2020 is making 5G more accessible – bringing an affordable yet premium grade, future proof 5G experience for the best possible performance in NSA and SA networks with the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 765 Mobile Platform,” said Juho Sarvikas, chief product officer, HMD Global. “Aside from being an excellent mobile platform for best-in-class 5G connectivity, Snapdragon 765 mobile platform allows us to offer breakthrough entertainment capabilities combined with our PureDisplay technology, and our unique ZEISS powered imaging solutions that enable fans to create and share amazing content over 5G. We also congratulate Qualcomm Technologies on the announcement of its Snapdragon Modular Platform. This innovative approach to making 5G more accessible to OEMs will dramatically streamline the development process and we look forward to exploring possibilities of working with Qualcomm Technologies on this exciting platform.”

Motorola:

“5G is a focus for the entire Lenovo organization - from network infrastructure to personal devices, being the first to launch a 5G smartphone and preview a 5G PC,” said Sergio Buniac, president, Motorola. “As the mobile arm, Motorola will continue leading the 5G era with our expanded lineup of 5G solutions in 2020 - driven by the high-performing Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 765 and 865 Mobile Platforms, re-invigorating our place in the premium flagship space.”

OPPO:

“OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies have maintained a close and strong collaboration, and today we are honored to witness the launch of Qualcomm Technologies’ latest 5G mobile platforms and be part of its global commercialized plan. In 2020 Q1, OPPO will launch its flagship product using the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform, together bringing a faster and superior 5G experience to users. In the era of 5G and intelligent connectivity, OPPO will continue to invest in 5G products, research, standard development and application scenarios, with Qualcomm Technologies and other partners in the industry, to bring more 5G values and possibilities to users around the world,” said Alen Wu, vice president & president of global sales, OPPO. 1 Sprint:

“High-capacity 5G networks coupled with powerful devices have the ability to rapidly transform industries, from gaming and entertainment to healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, energy and more,” said Ryan Sullivan, vice president of product engineering & development, Sprint. “Already we see that our 5G customers are eager to take advantage of the increased capacity and performance that Sprint True Mobile 5G enables.”

Verizon:

“Given its role to date in helping advance the global 5G ecosystem, I’m excited to see Qualcomm Technologies announce plans for mobile platform-based modules designed to further scale products across the industry,” said Nicki Palmer, chief product development officer, Verizon. She added, “the Snapdragon Tech Summit is a great venue for ecosystem partners to collaborate and for Verizon to share our vision of where 5G will make the greatest impact on society.”

Xiaomi:

“The 5G era opens up new opportunities and challenges. It brings great innovations and redefines how users interact with devices, audio, and video applications. The next generation of “Super Internet” will be an all-new model that combines 5G + AI + IoT, and Xiaomi will be at the forefront of this, developing and bringing 5G smartphones to the masses,” said Bin Lin, co-founder, vice chairman, Xiaomi Corporation. “In 2020 Q1, Xiaomi is proud to announce that we will be introducing our flagship Mi 10 – one of the world’s first smartphones to feature the flagship Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform.”

Chinese OEMs, ODMs and Brands:

“In addition to the ecosystem leaders attending the Summit, many leading Chinese OEMs, ODMs and brands including BlackShark, Coolpad, iQOO, Lenovo, Meizu, nubia RedMagic, OnePlus, Realme, Redmi, Smartisan, TCL, vivo, Wingtech, ZTE, and 8848 plan to use Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 5G mobile platforms in their 5G mobiles devices for 2020 and beyond.”

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ArcSoft:

“ArcSoft is a global leader of visual computing and AI (Artificial Intelligence) solutions across devices on major platforms – from smartphones, automobile, smart home, smart robot, smart retail to cloud-based enterprise solutions. ArcSoft was established in 1994, with regional commercial and development facilities in the US (California), Dublin, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. ArcSoft solutions have been shipped with 10 billion hardware products over the past two decades. Our mission is to improve the capture process, image quality and user experience of computational photography and videography. ArcSoft has worked closely with Qualcomm Technologies for more than 10 years in order to improve camera user experiences by leveraging Qualcomm Technologies’ powerful hardware features such as the Qualcomm Spectra™ ISP and Qualcomm® AI Engine.”

Audio Analytic:

“At this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit, we are demonstrating the powerful benefits and value that smartphone brands can offer consumers when their next-generation mass-market 5G phones understand context through a greater sense of hearing beyond speech and music. Our sound recognition technology is able to accurately recognize acoustic scenes and audio events, which will empower the context-sensing capabilities of devices, whether that is enhancing core functionality or enabling innovative value propositions. We are excited to demonstrate our advanced acoustic scene recognition technology running on the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 765 Mobile Platform. As a strategic feature of AI, sound recognition will enable smartphones to do things like dynamically adjust notifications, calls and voice recognition settings based on what is actually happening around the user,” said Dr Chris Mitchell, founder & CEO, Audio Analytic.

Dolby:

“We are expanding our leadership in next generation imaging technology by bringing Dolby Vision to UGC content,” said Taeho Oh, vice president, imaging, Dolby Laboratories. “Through our work with Qualcomm Technologies, we are enabling our mobile device partners the ability to bring Dolby Vision for video capture experiences to consumers.”

Loom.ai:

“The cutting-edge AI capabilities of the 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine inside the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform and the Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK are uniquely positioned to empower novel applications like the real-time Loomie™ avatar conferencing that require high-performance deep learning inference on mobile hardware. LoomieTalk delivers a high-quality and interactive 3D avatar experience, reminiscent of our time in the Hollywood animation industry,” said Mahesh Ramasubramanian, co-founder & CEO, Loom.ai.

3 Mobius Labs:

“Mobius Labs provides next generation computer vision solutions for developing AI-powered camera and gallery applications. By using Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile platforms, we are able to run our algorithms with unparalleled speed and performance while building complex products,” said Hicham Badri, senior computer vision scientist & co-founder, Mobius Labs.

Morpho:

“We are very honored and looking forward to our first attendance to the Tech Summit. As a long-term collaborator with Qualcomm Technologies, we hope to continue to provide solutions that add value to the camera experience enabled by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile platforms from imaging and AI software perspective,” said Toshi Torihara, vice president, Morpho US, Inc.

Sensory:

“Sensory continues to advance the state-of-the-art in on device AI, and we are proud to showcase our new TrulySecure Face on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 765 Mobile Platform,” said Todd Mozer, President & CEO, Sensory.

Snap, Inc.:

“One of our advanced Augmented Reality technologies is based on real-time generative neural networks — transforming an original image in real time through the Snapchat Camera,” said Yurii Monastyrshyn, senior director of software engineering, Snap Inc. “Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies helps us deliver this technology without compromising the experience for our community. Using the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ processor, which is part of the 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine, we are able to speed up the processing time 4 times compared to CPU and 2.2 times compared to GPU. This means we can finally hit smooth 30 FPS.”

Youdao:

“As Qualcomm transforms the world by inventing breakthrough technologies, NetEase Youdao is committed to making an impact on education with technologies. Through the collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, NetEase Youdao fully leverages the 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform to enable the NetEase Youdao on-device real-time speech recognition and translation on mobile devices with higher performance and quality. We look forward to deepening the cooperation in AI field, and further accelerating the innovation of on-device AI applications,” said Feng Zhou, CEO, NetEase Youdao.

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Accenture:

“As part of Accenture’s Extended Reality (XR) practice, I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with Qualcomm Technologies as a key XR ecosystem player to explore and develop XR solutions that both enterprises and consumers can adopt at-scale. I look forward to discussing the great work we’ve done together in areas such as virtual retail merchandising, as well as our plans for future innovations at the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019,” said Raffaella Camera, global head of innovation & market strategy, Accenture Extended Reality.

KDDI:

“KDDI and Qualcomm Technologies have more than 20 years of history of closely working together to drive innovations and we very are excited to bring innovative XR experiences to our customers together in 5G era,” said Yasuhisa Yamada, administrative officer, general manager, service development division, KDDI. “XR is one of key pillars in KDDI’s business strategy to integrate telecommunications and life design in the 5G era and I am pleased to share KDDI’s ‘5G x XR’ vision at Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019.”

Microsoft:

“Connectivity and long battery life is no longer a nice to have, people want access to their content and services no matter where they are, and for an extended period of time. Qualcomm Technologies’ new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ platforms for PCs will make this possible for businesses and consumers around the world,” Nicole Dezen, vice president of device partner sales, consumer & device sales, Microsoft Corp.

Mitchell:

“Through our strategic collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Mitchell is working to give collision repair technicians a single tool for accessing and utilizing information needed to enable a proper and safe repair, during the repair, without disrupting their workflow. We are actively testing our XR smart glasses proof of concept with several facilities in North America, and the results have been overwhelmingly positive,” said Debbie Day, EVP & GM, auto physical damage, Mitchell International.

5 Spatial:

“From the beginning, Spatial was founded on the vision to build a practical AR and VR application that add value to people’s everyday lives,” said Anand Agarawala, CEO, Spatial. “Spatial is a device agnostic and cross reality platform that inspires ideas and allows a deeper level of connection between people not physically together, engaging through the headworn, mobile or desktop interface of their choice. The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ XR2 Platforms offers a taste of the next generation of XR and we’re excited to elevate the Spatial experience even higher on it.”

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Qualcomm Snapdragon, Qualcomm AI Engine, Qualcomm Hexagon, Qualcomm Spectra, and Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

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