Qualcomm partners with China for shared success

(China Daily) Updated: 2015-09-24 10:49

Qualcomm has helped accelerate the development of China's semiconductor industry through our partnership with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp to expand its product portfolio and locations and form SMIC Advanced Technology Research and Development (Shanghai) Corp.

Announced in June, the SMIC partnership is a significant milestone for the Chinese and global IC industries.

SMIC recently announced that its 28nm process technology, which is being used for manufacturing Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processors, and has been successfully adopted into mainstream smartphones. This marks a significant step in the commercial usage of 28nm core chips, and a new era of advanced mobile phone chip manufacturing in China.

This is another major breakthrough in the companies' collaboration on 28nm and reinforces Qualcomm's commitment to the entire semiconductor ecosystem in China.

In addition to our work with SMIC, Qualcomm has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Guizhou province to explore the establishment of an independent Chinese legal entity to develop and sell chipsets based on Qualcomm's ARM-based server technology for use within China.

Promoting development

Qualcomm believes access to advanced wireless technology can improve people's lives.

Qualcomm Wireless Reach is an initiative that brings wireless technology to underserved communities globally.

Wireless Reach has worked with stakeholders since 2006 to launch programs that leverage mobile broadband to achieve economic and social impact in critical areas such as healthcare and education.

To date, Wireless Reach programs have directly or indirectly benefited nearly 850,000 people in China.

Wireless Reach and the organizations we collaborate with have invested an estimated 60 million yuan ($9.23 million) in these programs.

Most recently, coinciding with the APEC CEO Summit in Beijing, Qualcomm announced the creation of the China Center for mHealth Innovation, known as CCmHI, to support the Chinese central government's goal of improving community healthcare in China, as stated in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).

Hosted by the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center and funded by Qualcomm Wireless Reach, CCmHI is set to become a world-class center for mobile health (mHealth) innovation.