Qualcomm President Derek Abli Receives Xinhua News Reporter Interview The 2017 Annual Meeting of the China Development High Level Forum will be held in Beijing on March 18-20. On March 19th, the President of American Qualcomm Inc. Derek Abli said in an interview with Xinhua.com reporters during the forum that the development of China’s economy needs innovation to drive innovation as an important driver of future economic growth. Innovation is a very important corporate culture. The core of Qualcomm's corporate culture is driven by the spirit of innovation. Qualcomm has made tremendous efforts in the fifth-generation communications technology (5G). Qualcomm and its partners are doubling their efforts and hope to achieve 5G commercialization by 2019. Support innovation and support cooperation At present, with the rise of global trade protectionism and uncertainties in the world economy, China has entered a new normal economy and is undergoing economic transformation and upgrading. As a multinational company manager who closely cooperates with China, Abli said that Qualcomm has been investing in China for a long time. The current development and transformation of the Chinese economy is in the right direction. "Now, economic development needs to be driven by innovation. 'China Made 2025' and 'Internet +' are the driving forces of innovation," said Abbelli. China’s scientific and technological innovation has developed rapidly, and many of the established technology companies have mushroomed. Abli believes that as a large multinational technology company, Qualcomm’s role in China is constantly enriching. “We have extensive cooperation with infrastructure providers, mobile communication operators, and mobile phone manufacturers; we are also committed to helping China. Partners go global." Abri said that in the future, it will continue to expand cooperation with Chinese semiconductor industry companies, including Guizhou Huaxin Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., a joint venture with the Guizhou provincial government, to jointly develop server chips used in the Chinese market. “We are a company that supports innovation and has a spirit of cooperation. Now that we have a cooperation model, I think it is a win-win situation,†he said. Abri believes that Qualcomm has four advantages in the upcoming era of the Internet of Things. First of all, Qualcomm is a very innovative company, investing in early technology development, although this risk is greater, and there are many other companies are not willing to do so. Second, the implementation of Qualcomm is very strong. Third, Qualcomm and its partners must work together to develop the technology they have developed into the market. Fourth, the market needs a variety of different solutions, sometimes even a composite solution, which is also an advantage of Qualcomm. We have been working hard to develop platforms, development technologies, software, and some reference designs, which will help our partners to better develop products. At present, mobile Internet has become a part of people's lives, and innovation is the foundation and driving force of the entire IT industry. Regarding this, Abli said that the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship should be further encouraged, which could bring more creativity. “Qualcomm has gradually evolved from an innovative, start-up company into a multinational company. Now, the core corporate culture of Qualcomm is still driven by innovation and engineers. This corporate culture is the most important element of Qualcomm's ability to maintain innovation. He said. Abbary pointed out that at present, regardless of the size of the company, China is committed to innovation. This is a very important spirit. As long as companies and employees support this innovative spirit, they will certainly do better. In addition, he also pointed out that intellectual property protection is an important foundation for supporting popular innovation. At present, intellectual property protection has been better and more important in China. Without the protection in this area, some small businesses cannot grow up healthily. "Now China's investment environment, policies and plans are all important fulcrums to support future economic growth," he said. Strengthen cooperation in China to promote 5G development China's "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" emphasizes the promotion of information technology, the construction of high-speed and high-capacity optical communication transmission systems, support for the construction of public cloud service platforms, and the deployment of cloud computing and big data centers. In this regard, Abli said that Qualcomm’s development plan is in perfect harmony with the Chinese government’s plans and plans for the information and communications industry. According to him, Qualcomm’s development plan in Guizhou is part of the plan to support China’s cloud services and big data industry; Qualcomm also plans to cooperate with China’s partners in 5G, and to increase investment before commercializing 5G. Abri said 5G will combine more features and usage scenarios. People will gain greater bandwidth, higher data transfer rates, lower latency, more advanced Internet of Things M2M (Machine to Machine) communications, and more advanced multimedia applications through 5G technology. 5G technology, like electricity, is one of the infrastructure of the future society and will lead a new era of innovation and economic development. "5G as a communication technology is bound to be ubiquitous in human society. In the future, we will be connected with everything around us. Everything will be connected to the Internet. Today's seemingly ordinary things will always be Smart devices will all serve us. This will drive a series of services and applications, bringing positive changes, but how this impact will be made difficult to predict, may be virtual reality, may be more The robot application may also be a flying car, or more holographic images... it may not even be imagined now,†he said. Abboli said that 5G technology is just like the raw materials of the high-tech industry and will be everywhere in the society. It is very important. Qualcomm has invested a lot in 5G. He introduced that the deployment plan for 5G is to begin commercial use in 2020, and now Qualcomm and its partners in all walks of life are working harder and hope to advance 5G commercialization to 2019. He said that overall, Qualcomm is very confident in its own technical research in 5G. The fifth-generation communication technology will inevitably be based on 3G and 4G technologies. In this regard, Qualcomm has accumulated and laid the groundwork for many years, and will certainly contribute to 5G standardization, and Qualcomm will be the main contributor. In February of this year, Qualcomm announced that it would support the development of 5G in Barcelona, ​​and 4G still needs continuous development. Therefore, when 5G emerges, it will not be completely separated from 4G, but it will transplant a lot of 4G advanced functions into 5G. For the development of 5G, Qualcomm also deployed and planned in the Chinese market in 2017. Abri said Qualcomm has thousands of employees in China and the vast majority are engineers. In 2017, Qualcomm will increase the number of its partners in China and increase its execution capacity to better advance the development of 5G. In particular, he pointed out that Qualcomm and China Mobile have many cooperation projects on 5G, and they also have many other partners including ZTE. In addition, projects in the automotive industry and Guizhou server chip joint ventures have also progressed smoothly. This year will remain the focus of Qualcomm's work in China.
