Qualcomm's President speaks on the future of servers
 

Cristiano talks about living on the Edge

While there has been a lot of news that Qualcomm is shutting down its server division, it looks like that is not the case. Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon told technology analysts that the server division is here to stay, but it will focus more on edge computing.

Edge computing is expected to grow with the development of faster internet speeds. Many companies including Qualcomm are moving towards building faster and more reliable Mesh WiFi, faster 4G Gigabit LTE speeds and eventually 5G speeds. So, we're talking multiple gigabytes a second and extremely low latency. Latency is more of an issue than the speed.

This is the promise of 5G and Qualcomm and many other big players are investing heavily in edge computing. Cristiano said that Edge is an important technology that can potentially replace the big computing boxes including desktop machines or consoles and workstations and move them into the cloud.

Nvidia is betting big on gaming on the Edge with Geforce Now, but this technology is still in its infancy. Nvidia started just a bit too early. It is better to start early than be late to the game.

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