Qualcomm announced first commercial 5G PC Platform, the Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform. Featuring the second-generation X55 5G modem, the Snapdragon 8cx 5G platform will help PC manufactures take advantage of the global rollout of 5G networks.
With the power and performance of a premium thin and light PC, the Snapdragon 8cx 5G bring faster connectivity, computing and communicating with PCs. New platform will impact consumers, small businesses, the enterprise and those on-the-go, by enabling multi-gigabit connectivity, multi-day battery life and performance computing in a modern device.
“Our platforms were the first to bring gigabit, and now multi-gigabit LTE to the PC,“ said Alex Katouzian, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile, Qualcomm. “We also brought multi-day battery life to the PC, and with the Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform, we innovate once again to bring the best of our computing and connectivity technologies into a single platform to modernize the enterprise.“
The Snapdragon 8cx 5G platform aims to modernize the PC industry by addressing the growing connectivity and performance needs of the modern workplace. With extreme performance, extreme battery life, and extreme connectivity as design tenets, Qualcomm is bringing 7nm innovations to the PC. This combines smartphone-like capabilities with the power and performance of a premium thin and light PC to transform the computing experience and accelerate 5G commercial momentum and adoption in the modern workplace.
Nokia and SURF, the organization for IT in Dutch education and research, have successfully reached a single carrier 800Gb/s optical transmission over SURF’s existing cross-border, multi-vendor research and education network infrastructure.
Nokia and Vodafone are collaborating to test the viability of L4S technology over passive optical networks (PON).
The GSMA believes that critical reform of European laws is necessary to position the region as a technology frontrunner by 2030.
