Qualcomm Technologies today announced its latest products and milestones in wireless connectivity and on-device AI at MWC Barcelona. Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF, its eighthgeneration 5G modem-to-antenna solution and fourth-generation AI-powered 5G connectivity platform. This advanced platform sets new standards for 5G and gives connectivity leadership to the Android ecosystem, achieving peak download speeds up
to 12.5 Gbps1and supporting sub-6 and mmWave for seamless streaming, downloads, and gaming. The Qualcomm X85 features an improved Qualcomm 5G AI Processor with a hardware tensor accelerator, enhancing user experiences through AI-driven improvements in speed, efficiency, coverage, and power consumption.
The Company also unveiled new 4G IoT modems, including one with an industry-firstintegrated SIM (iSIM) to help deliver ultra-low power connectivity across different networks and IoT devices ranging from smart meters, smart city, parking, healthcare devices, wearables, IP cameras, point-of-sale terminals, and more.
The Company announced that its 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) solutions are gaining significant momentum with leading network operators and infrastructure providers around the world. Viettel, Vietnam’s largest mobile network operator, has deployed a live 5G O-RAN Massive MIMO network using Qualcomm Dragonwing Cellular Infrastructure platforms. In addition, NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s largest mobile network operator, has selected O-RAN virtualized Distributed Units (vDUs) that leverage the high performance and power efficiency of Qualcomm Dragonwing X100 Accelerator Cards
for its nationwide 5G vRAN network deployment.
Qualcomm Technologies has redefined mobile broadband with the launch of the Qualcomm Dragonwing Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Gen 4 Elite Platform, the world’s first 5G Advanced FWA platform. Powered by the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF, this platform delivers ultra-fast wireless mobile broadband experiences, with downlink speeds up to 12.5 Gbps. It features on-device AI-enhanced traffic classification and 40 TOPS edge AI integration, significantly boosting network performance and paving the way for advanced generative AI innovation at the network edge. The next-gen FWA
platform is equipped with a powerful quad-core processor, dedicated hardware acceleration, integrated 5G modem-RF, GNSS, Tri-band Wi-Fi 7, and broad carrier middleware support, making it a comprehensive solution for the future of wireless connectivity.
Qualcomm Technologies continues to lead the industry with advanced wireless research across 5G Advanced, 6G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB, focusing on foundational evolution for ubiquitous coverage and massive capacity, operational
optimization through AI and digital twins, and enabling emerging services like immersive experiences and integrated sensing. The latest wireless innovations will be on display at MWC.
At MWC, the Company is showcasing leadership in hybrid AI through a series of neverbefore-seen demonstrations and collaborations that reveal how on-device AI and edge computing unlocks the full potential of AI on devices, creating more intuitive and responsive user experiences:
- Qualcomm Technologies and IBM announced an expanded collaboration to drive enterprise-grade generative AI solutions across edge and cloud. This collaboration includes enabling support for IBM’s Granite models through the Qualcomm AI Hub, and showcasing integration of watsonx.governance across edge devices powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms to help address security, efficiency, reliability, and governance on AI solutions for businesses.
- The Company will be demonstrating on-device, multimodal experiences showcasing agentic AI across Snapdragon powered smartphones, PCs and smart glasses. On smartphones powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platforms, they will demonstrate a variety of use cases using an AI agent user interface, including tasks featuring music, navigation, weather, and messaging information. On Snapdragon X Series PCs, they will demonstrate on-device commercial AI experiences across media and productivity applications. The Company will also be demonstrating an on-device, multimodal agentic AI demo with a smartphone powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite and TCL Ray-Neo Smart Glasses with a large language model (LLM) running on the phone.
