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Qualcomm Automotive Investor Day: Enabling the Car of the Future

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Qualcomm hosted its first Automotive Investor Day where CEO Cristiano Amon and other members of the Qualcomm executive team made several announcements. Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes a look at these announcements and more, including a new partnership with Mercedes Benz, the Snapdragon Ride Flex System-on-Chip, and overall pipeline growth from $19 billion to $30 billion in the last two months.

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Lego and Epic Games Are Taking the Metaverse to Children by Co-Building Immersive Digital Play Space for Kids – Is This a Move to Entice Grown-ups to Follow?

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Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss dives into the news that Lego and Fortnite’s Epic Games are collaborating with the aim of creating a safe and fun metaverse experience targeted to children. Weiss explores the possibility that this move is perhaps a tempting carrot to later bring adults into the cloudy metaverse mix, along with a look what other brands are doing as we navigate the nascent stages of the metaverse and what’s ahead.

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Intel and Red Hat Aim to Streamline 5G Deployment and Adoption Process

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The extension of the Intel-Red Hat alliance will ease the pain and suffering of service providers as well as enterprises in accelerating their adoption of cloud-native capabilities to rapidly boost the agility and flexibility of 5G implementation journeys. Intel and Red Hat have the portfolios and deployment expertise to reduce the complexity of 5G deployments, particularly in areas such as assuring interworking of open source Open RAN and 5GC technologies in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Platform: Unveiling the Great Wall of Ride

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Qualcomm gains valuable Snapdragon Ride Platform sales and marketing momentum from its GWM win. Qualcomm is demonstrating that even during the uncertainties of the global COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical trade tensions that collaboration with China-based concerns can yield substantial business and technical progress in the fast-emerging autonomous vehicles space.

Qualcomm is showing it can meet the challenges of advancing ADAS capabilities, especially in safely attaining L4/L5 autonomous driving capabilities, working with key partners such as GWM. Now Qualcomm must execute in areas such as demonstrating ADAS-related sensor technology is ready for prime time driving in all conditions and that AI-enable innovations are replicable across the industry to sustain the Snapdragon Ride Platform’s long-term competitive success.

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G’s Slick New Integrated X60 5G Modem-RF System Sets a New High Bar for Global Premium-Tier Smartphone Connectivity

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Qualcomm’s slick new integrated X60 5G Modem-RF system sets a new high bar for global premium-tier smartphone connectivity. Featuring both a welcome return to an integrated modem design, as well as a focus on global connectivity in the 5G era, as far as I can tell, the X60 delivers the world’s fastest commercially available 5G speeds. 7.5 Gbps is pretty impressive this early into 5G deployments and gets us a lot closer to 10 Gbps than I expected to be in 2020.