Evolution of Mobile Technologies - What are the challenges for 5G?

Jun Yamada

Qualcomm Japan

December 7, 2016

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Evolution of Mobile Technologies

3G,4G,5G..(2000’s-)CDMA, OFDMA, etc.

2G: TDMA (1980’s-)

1G: Analog (1970’s-)

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Qualcomm - Change of Business Model

1985-2000 2000-

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“Platform” enabled rapid proliferation of smartphones

Network anywhere in the world Any Operating System

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Qualcomm Today

$23.55B (GAAP)

Revenues

$8.34B(Non-GAAP)

Earnings Before Tax

QCT

QTL QCT

QTL

Annual Results (FY2016 e/o Sept 2016)

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>80% revenues generated from manufactures in China, Korea and Taiwan

Now, Asia is the center of terminal supply

ChinaKorea

Taiwan

U.S. Other

Annual Results (FY2016 e/o Sept 2016)

Revenue by region

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Smartphone SoC – commoditization & competition

Huawei (HiSilicon)

MediaTek Samsung

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Smartphone is just a beginning

Automobile Industry

HomeHealthcare

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Leading the world to 5G

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Mobile date traffic is set to explode!!Mobile network is facing significant challenge

Toward 1000x

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Network architecture must evolve to “heterogeneous”

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Key is to bring the network closer to the user

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Viral, ad-hoc deployed small cellsMore “inside-out” deployments

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Unlicensed spectrum integrated with 4G/5G

LTE in unlicensed 5GHz band

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Pursue multiple ways to reach 1000x

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