Qualcomm Empowers New Industrialization with 5G and AI in Collaboration with Chinese Partners

Qualcomm Empowers New Industrialization with 5G and AI in Collaboration with Chinese PartnersAt the seventh Hongqiao International Economic Forum, Meng Pu, Chairman of Qualcomm China, delivered a keynote speech titled "Innovation Drives the Future of Industry, Cooperation Builds a New Ecosystem" at the sub-forum "Artificial Intelligence Empowering New Industrialization." He shared how Qualcomm is leveraging AI, 5G, and other digital technologies to facilitate the development of new industrialization and showcased applications with its Chinese partners

Qualcomm Empowers New Industrialization with 5G and AI in Collaboration with Chinese Partners

At the seventh Hongqiao International Economic Forum, Meng Pu, Chairman of Qualcomm China, delivered a keynote speech titled "Innovation Drives the Future of Industry, Cooperation Builds a New Ecosystem" at the sub-forum "Artificial Intelligence Empowering New Industrialization." He shared how Qualcomm is leveraging AI, 5G, and other digital technologies to facilitate the development of new industrialization and showcased applications with its Chinese partners.

Meng Pu pointed out that the deep integration of 5G and AI technologies is accelerating enterprise digital transformation. Smart devices such as smartphones, PCs, and connected vehicles have become indispensable tools in everyday life and work. As this trend continues, AI applications are expanding, particularly generative AI, showing significant business potential and value across industries.

Globally, generative AI is predicted to generate economic benefits between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually, roughly five times Shanghai's GDP in 2023. Currently, generative AI applications are in their early stages, but with the emergence of new applications like image and video creation, text summarization, and intelligent agents, the mixed AI model will become a key trend.

Meng Pu emphasized that running generative AI on devices enables faster response speeds, higher accuracy, greater reliability, and stronger privacy and data protection. High-performance and efficient AI processing capabilities on devices will facilitate the large-scale expansion of generative AI, giving rise to a range of new applications, particularly focusing on productivity, content creation, education, research and development, and industrial manufacturing.

As generative AI operates collaboratively in the cloud and on devices, the demand for more reliable and low-latency end-to-cloud connectivity is becoming increasingly urgent. 5G can provide this capability. Meng Pu introduced that Qualcomm completed the first 5G Advanced global standard version this year, known as 3GPP Release 18, marking the official entry of the 5G evolution into its second decade. This will bring improved connectivity experiences for generative AI-based use cases, more energy-efficient devices and networks, and satellite communications. Looking ahead, 5G Advanced will lay a solid foundation for next-generation cellular connectivity technologies, while 6G is seen as a collaborative technology innovation platform with advanced features like AI and integrated sensing and communication.

Qualcomm is committed to making intelligent computing ubiquitous and has industry-leading platforms that are delivering exceptional experiences for a range of consumer and enterprise devices, including smartphones, PCs, wearables, XR headsets, and automobiles. Simultaneously, Qualcomm is continuously pushing the research and commercialization of key technologies, including wireless technology, high-performance and energy-efficient computing, and innovative on-device AI, which can be implemented in areas such as smart homes, networks, automobiles, and industrial manufacturing.

Meng Pu stated that from 3G and 4G to 5G and generative AI, Qualcomm believes these technologies will bring new opportunities for Chinese partners in the smartphone, PC, automotive, and IoT industries, creating more collaboration opportunities. On-device AI is already widely used in various consumer devices and industries, including smartphones, PCs, vehicles, and industrial robots.

In the mobile phone industry, Qualcomm's third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship mobile platform has enabled many mobile phone manufacturer partners to launch a variety of on-device AI experiences. The recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy, can directly deliver personalized multimodal generative AI on devices, supporting voice, context, and image understanding, comprehensively enhancing experiences from productivity to creative tasks, while prioritizing user privacy protection.

In the PC space, Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon XElite product line, and partners have implemented rich AI features on their computers, including real-time translation, real-time transcription, AI image editing, text summarization, writing assistance, and more, significantly enhancing user experience and work efficiency. Snapdragon has become a leading platform in the PC space.

Meng Pu emphasized that Qualcomm's deep collaboration with industry partners demonstrates the strong innovation capabilities of Chinese companies and their rapid response to market demands. Qualcomm will continue to work closely with Chinese partners to drive industry innovation with Snapdragon technology.

Taking the Honor Magic7 series as an example, this phone, based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, has achieved user intent perception and AI learning in smartphones. Through Honor's YOYO intelligent agent, it has achieved intent-aware human-computer interaction, making operation simpler and more intuitive.

In recent years, the automotive industry has been continuously moving towards intelligence and connectivity, becoming one of the representative areas of new industrialization. Qualcomm has created the Snapdragon Digital Chassis, aiming to enhance automotive connectivity, create a more immersive cockpit experience, and always prioritize safety in its design, learning and improving with technological advancements. In the Chinese market alone, in the past three years, Qualcomm has supported nearly 60 Chinese automotive brands, launching over 160 intelligent and connected car models.

Cars are not just vehicles but a seamless extension of our digital life. The Chinese automotive market, with its globally leading development speed, is becoming a frontier for technological innovation and application, and AI is an important part of it. Great Wall Motors leverages the high performance and computing power of the Snapdragon 8295 chip to develop the new CoffeeOS3 intelligent cockpit system and the "five good" intelligent cockpit, which is "beautiful, fun, usable, good-sounding, and intelligent," providing users with a both aesthetically pleasing and practical, entertaining and intelligent in-car environment. Currently, based on the Snapdragon 8295 cockpit platform, multiple Chinese automotive companies, including Li Auto, XPeng, and JiYue, have released their large-language model features for vehicles. With the development of multimodal technologies, generative AI is poised to open up new application prospects for areas such as smart cockpits and autonomous driving.

In the IoT space, AI technology application is also an inevitable trend. Qualcomm continues to launch new IoT product portfolios, building top-notch connectivity, energy-efficient computing, and AI technologies for various vertical IoT sectors. It provides a range of application processors, connectivity chips, and a unified software architecture to better enable partners, customers, and developers to expand and customize their products. Currently, Qualcomm provides a comprehensive range of IoT solutions for over 16,000 customers worldwide, including consumer devices such as home appliances, displays, and home robots, as well as commercial and enterprise applications such as retail, drones, and security cameras, and industrial applications such as controllers, industrial robots, and industrial PCs. In China, Qualcomm has published "IoT Application Case Collection" for four consecutive years, focusing on the key development directions and highlight landing scenarios of the IoT industry, comprehensively showcasing the latest technological directions and innovative ecosystem collaboration models.

In industrial manufacturing, the merging of 5G and AI brings about an intelligent leap. The high-speed connectivity provided by 5G enables AI to extend to edge-side devices, promoting the large-scale expansion of various intelligent applications, and achieving real-time sharing of contextual data and the cloud. In 2022, Qualcomm, together with the China Industrial Internet Research Institute, China Telecom, and Quectel, conducted a 5G fully connected factory project at the Kunichi Industrial Park of Kone Elevator in Jiangsu Province. This project utilizes China Telecom's 5G dedicated network and Quectel's 5G modules, and based on Kone Elevator factory needs, it builds a 5G technology dedicated network based on Qualcomm solutions, providing 5G access capabilities for intelligent industrial manufacturing and realizing production management applications based on the 5G industrial Internet platform. Additionally, Qualcomm is leading the application of on-device AI in industrial manufacturing.

Meng Pu concluded that key technologies like 5G and AI are driving digital transformation and innovative applications across many industries. Looking ahead, Qualcomm hopes to collaborate with more partners, leveraging technological innovation as an engine to drive the development of new industrialization, jointly shape an innovation-driven new industrial era, and build a new industry ecosystem together with all parties.

Since the first CIIE in 2018, Qualcomm has participated for seven consecutive years, exhibiting and attending the event. This year, Qualcomm is showcasing its latest innovations and collaborative achievements in 5G and AI under the theme "Making Intelligent Computing Ubiquitous." We look forward to collaborating with industry partners to drive the development of new industrialization and jointly embrace the new future of digital economic development.

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