On December 5, 2017, Qualcomm held the second Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii, and launched a number of customer, ecosystem and technology products. Christian Amun, executive vice president and QCT president of Qualcomm, and Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile business, from Microsoft, ASUS Sprint、 HP AMD、 The executives of Xiaomi and Samsung jointly attended the event and brought products such as Asus Nova Go and HP ENVY x2. Surprisingly, on the first day of the Summit, Qualcomm launched a new flagship mobile platform, Snapdragon 845.

Always connected PC

Cristiano Amun and Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft Windows and Device Business Unit, reiterated their cooperation and the progress made by the two companies in providing Windows 10 based on the Snapdragon platform in the past few months. Shen Zhenlai, CEO of ASUS, also joined them on the stage and released the first Windows device on the Snapdragon platform, the ultra light and thin two in one notebook ASUS NovaGo, which is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2018. Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager of consumer personal systems of Hewlett Packard, and Christian Amun jointly released a removable HP ENVY x2 Snapdragon platform Windows mobile PC. This new PC category is characterized by the gigabit LTE rate, which can support the experience of always on and always connected. It can also support more than a full day's battery life, and has a slim, delicate, fanless PC design that supports Windows 10.

Shen Zhenlai, CEO of Asustek, released Nova Go, the world's first ever connected PC, which uses Snapdragon 835 processor, supports gigabit 4G baseband, with 4G Ram+64G Rom and 8G Ram+256G Rom configurations, the price is $599 and $799 respectively, and this product will also be listed in China.

HP has brought ENVY x2, which also uses Snapdragon 835 platform. This is a variant that can disassemble the keyboard and bracket into a tablet computer with a stylus. After the keyboard is removed, it is only 6.9 mm. Of course, the biggest selling point is to use Snapdragon 835 platform and gigabit baseband.

Lenovo representatives did not appear on the stage this time, but PC products using the Snapdragon platform will be displayed on CES2018.

Mobile operators also support Qualcomm's new projects. G ü nther Ottendorfer, chief operating officer of Sprint's technology department, announced that Sprint would support this new PC category and looked forward to providing unlimited data traffic for the Windows ecosystem of Snapdragon platform.

QUALCOMM and Kevin Lensing, AMD's vice president and general manager of the customer business unit, announced their cooperation to introduce QUALCOMM's modem technology into AMD's high-performance Ryzen processor platform. AMD and Qualcomm hope to help the world's leading PC companies easily build a top computing platform that not only supports always connected, gigabit LTE speeds, but also has the powerful performance of AMD Ryzen mobile processors.

Cristiano Amon said, "Qualcomm continues to innovate the way people use mobile terminals. At the second Snapdragon Technology Summit, we were very happy to highlight our role in the mobile ecosystem, and continue to implement our strategy with Microsoft through a PC that is always connected. I am honored to be on the stage today with industry leaders from all over the world to explain how we can redefine the way consumers' mobile experience by promoting the development of mobile technology. "

Xiaolong 845 mobile platform

Alex Katouzian released Qualcomm's next-generation flagship mobile technology - Snapdragon 845 mobile platform. All features and specifications of Snapdragon 845 mobile platform will be released on December 6, Hawaii time (December 7, Beijing time).

Later, Cristiano Amon returned to the stage and invited ES Jung, president and general manager of Samsung Electronics wafer foundry business, to the stage, confirming that Samsung Foundry would become the foundry of Snapdragon 845, and the two sides would continue to cooperate to promote the development of chip manufacturing process.

Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, made a keynote speech on the stage, emphasizing the close cooperation between Xiaomi and Qualcomm around the top platform, and that Xiaomi's next-generation flagship smartphone will use Snapdragon 845.

Lei Jun said that Xiaomi has so far sold 238 million smartphones using the Snapdragon platform. At the same time, Xiaomi has returned to the top five in the global smartphone share ranking in the second quarter of 2017.

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