Qualcomm Targets Wearables, Smartphones, IoT
Qualcomm, which announced LG as a launch partner for the Snapdragon Wear platform last week (see 1602120018), said Wednesday that original design manufacturers Borqs, Compal Electronics and Infomark began offering reference designs based on the Wear 2100 SoC (system on…
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chip), some of which include 3G, 4G, smartwatches, Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi. Qualcomm also said it’s the first company to support hardware-backed biometric fingerprint authentication for Tencent’s WeChat mobile payment service. And at next week's Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm will demo with Ericsson an LTE modem capable of gigabit data transfer speeds, 4-layer MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) in a smartphone and 5G connectivity, Qualcomm said. It will also demo Ultra HD Voice, along with IoT functions.