On December 7, 2017, Hawaii - Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), Inc. and NetEase's game business unit (NASDAQ: NTES) today announced that the two companies plan to target Qualcomm ® snapdragon ™ The 800 series of top mobile platforms include the newly released Snapdragon 845 mobile platform to jointly optimize Netease game engine Messiah. This cooperation will help to create the next generation mobile game and XR game content for top mobile terminals, and explore a new immersive mobile game experience in the future.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Wu Shangjie, senior vice president and president of QCT China, said: "We are excited about the cooperation with NetEase Games, the world's leading game content service provider. Through cooperation, the two sides plan to further exert the technical advantages of the top multimedia and VR/AR processing capabilities of Xiaolong 845 mobile platform, so that global game players can enjoy a higher quality immersive mobile game experience."
Wang Yi, Vice President of NetEase, said: "In cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies, we will more effectively target Snapdragon's top series platforms, especially Snapdragon 845 mobile platform, improve the existing and future game content, develop and optimize more and better mobile game products for global game players, and constantly meet the pursuit of global game players for top game experience."
The next generation mobile games represented by mobile games, including VR/AR applications, pose great challenges to the performance and power consumption of mobile terminals. Snapdragon 845 mobile platform is designed to provide strong performance and ultra-low power consumption. At present, the two companies have been supporting Vulkan of Khronos ™ Significant progress has been made in graphics and computing APIs. As an efficient new generation graphics computing API, Vulkan can release CPU load to a greater extent, allowing game developers to take advantage of Qualcomm on Snapdragon mobile platform ® Adreno ™ GPU。 At the same time, Vulkan's multi platform compatibility can reduce the resource restrictions on the common game developers of PC and mobile phones. NetEase's self-developed game engine Messiah is famous for multithreaded parallel execution. It supports advanced technologies such as physical rendering and dynamic shadows. It has been optimized for Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platform, aiming to bring more game content supporting Vulkan to game players.
In addition, the two companies are cooperating in the field of XR technology. Through Snapdragon VR software development kit, NetEase Game has successfully migrated its first top VR game, Twilight Pioneers, which supports 6 DoF, to Snapdragon. InsightAR, a NetEase self-developed AR platform, aims to bring easy-to-use development tools to content developers, and bring high-quality AR experience to end users using Snapdragon mobile platform.
The cooperation with OEM manufacturers is also crucial to the two companies' vision of achieving deeply optimized mobile game experience on the terminal, so the two companies also cooperate with leading terminal manufacturers. For example, NetEase showed its popular mobile game "Knives Out" at the recent launch of the 5T launch of Snapdragon 835 Plus mobile phones. This Wild Survival Third Person Shooting (TPS) game can run perfectly on Yijia mobile 5T in a high frame rate mode, bringing an excellent user experience. All this is achieved by using the execution ability of Messiah on the Snapdragon mobile platform, making the game experience more stable, smooth and with more sharp picture quality details.
The two companies plan to optimize several Netease games to be released in 2018 on the Snapdragon 845 mobile platform.
