Irene Yu provides an update to news and activity highlights for Arm at Mobile World Conference Shanghai 2017 from Thursday, June 29th.
IoT & 5G have become the primary highlights of MWC Shanghai 2017. Keynote speakers have touched upon 4 major topics: IoT, 5G, AI and Cloud Services; their talks have described their respective perception of IoT & 5G in terms of how it will enable opportunities and possibilities, not only for the industry, but also the people, echoing the theme of this year’s MWC Shanghai: The Human Element.
Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, delivered a keynote “Innovations Toward 5G”, highlighted what Qualcomm believes are the key trends and important foundations for 5G, including; LTE technology as the instrumental foundation for 5G, expanding LTE to address the connectivity needs of IoT, making 5G real and speeding up technical innovation on devices.
Li Changzhu, VP (Strategy and New Business), Smartphone Product Line, Huawei, described Huawei’s R&D roadmap for the “Smart+” era. Huawei will leverage and integrate 4G/5G, AI, Big Data and advanced sensors and algorithms to create a Huawei IoT Ecosystem; Li also introduced the five core strength of Huawei: users, home networking, HiLink protocol, LiteOS and IoT chips.
China Unicom President Lu Yimin stated in his keynote that operators, broadly perceived as the key architect of the mobile internet era, have already set sail for the IoT era. He said that in a “Everything Connected” world, operators need to become “Smart Operators” and provide better service to users across network, Cloud, IoT and Big Data services.
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