January 25, 2018, Beijing - Today, Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), At the 2018 Qualcomm China Technology and Cooperation Summit, Inc. announced that it had signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) with Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Oper Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Vivo Communication Technology Co., Ltd. and Xiaomi Communication Technology Co., Ltd, The four companies expressed their intention to purchase RF front-end components with a total value of no less than US $2 billion from Qualcomm Technologies within three years. The obligation to purchase and supply these parts will be executed according to the subsequent final agreement.
Qualcomm Technologies' RF front-end components constitute a rich and complete combination of system level RF front-end platform solutions from modem to antenna, which is designed to help OEMs quickly build mobile terminals on a large scale and easily achieve global expansion. Qualcomm Technologies' broad RF front-end platform products include GaAs power amplifiers (PA), envelope trackers, multimode power amplifiers and modules, RF switches, independent and integrated filter modules, and antenna tuners covering cellular and other connection technologies.
In addition to today's MOU, as part of its 5G development roadmap, Qualcomm Technologies shared information about its upcoming 5G tunable RF front-end. The breakthrough 5G tunable RF front-end will help OEMs differentiate their 5G products, make their products thinner and have higher performance system level technical expertise, and prepare for 5G products.
Christian Amun, president of Qualcomm Incorporated, said, "Qualcomm Technologies has been supporting China's mobile ecosystem for a long time. Today's MOU signed with Lenovo, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi further demonstrates our commitment to this ecosystem and our strategy to continue expanding our RF front-end business. Our robust RF front-end solutions can help these OEMs not only build energy-efficient terminals in a cost-effective manner, but also provide advanced mobile terminals for consumers in China and even the world. "
RF front-end technology is crucial to the expected mobile experience of users. Qualcomm Technologies' complete RF front-end product portfolio can provide industry-leading mobile solutions that support the current mobile ecosystem, and can meet the rapidly growing complexity and challenges of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G networks. Specifically, Qualcomm Technologies' complete RF front-end product portfolio from modem to antenna is designed to support Chinese OEMs to abandon the previous procurement methods based on RF front-end technology components, and turn to the system level procurement methods required for 5G RF front-end solutions, from modem to antenna solutions. Now, through Qualcomm Technologies' complete system level solutions from modem to antenna, Chinese OEMs will be able to design mobile terminals that support a wider frequency range, larger network capacity, wider coverage and advanced energy efficiency performance to meet the technical requirements of 4G LTE Advanced and the upcoming 5G network.
Christian Eigen, head of Lenovo Group's global strategic alliance, said: "For many years, Lenovo and Qualcomm Technologies have cooperated in a wide range of technology fields facing our laptop and smartphone product portfolio. Through Qualcomm Technologies' system level RF front-end design scheme, we can continue to provide customers with the best signal strength combined with first-class design and innovative products. "
Wu Henggang, Vice President of OPPO, said: "Qualcomm Technologies has a wide range of RF products, and there are many competitive products with obvious advantages. OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies have already carried out in-depth cooperation in the RF field. We look forward to applying more Qualcomm Technologies RF devices to OPPO products with the joint efforts of both parties in the future. "
Shi Yujian, senior vice president of vivo, said, "Our customers all over the world expect their terminals to have high performance, more durable battery life and advanced connectivity. Qualcomm Technologies' end-to-end system level design and support enable us to shorten the work of design import and integration time, while providing consumers with high-performance top-level terminals."
Yan Kesheng, vice president of Xiaomi Mobile and vice chairman of Xiaomi Mobile Quality Committee, said, "Xiaomi is proud to insist on providing the most innovative products to our growing customer base. By adopting Qualcomm Technologies' solution from modem to antenna platform in the RF front-end design, we can make full use of the performance enhancement features supported by the close interaction between the modem and the RF front-end, and more advanced terminals can be introduced to the market more quickly to better meet the global consumer's demand for innovation The demand for beautiful and economical smart phones. "
This press release is part of the Qualcomm China Technology and Cooperation Summit, during which Qualcomm discussed the future of global mobile technology and how the adoption of extended RF front-end technology will play an indispensable role in the rapid evolution of 5G.
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