Samsung is the first Snapdragon 850 OEM
 

SVP of Qualcomm and Samsung and GM of Microsoft on stage

This is one of this we told you so moments as Fudzilla reported in December 2017 that Samsung is working on the Snapdragon for Windows 10 device.

Samsung’s EVP, Kyungsik Choi, took the stage together with Qualcomm’s Alex Katouzian, SVP and General Manager of Mobile Business Unit, to announce the big partnership. Microsoft’s Roanne Sones General Manager at Microsoft who currently leads the Strategy and Ecosystem team within Cloud + AI Platform also took the part of the Computex 2018 Snapdragon 850 event with Qualcomm’s SVP. Katuouzian and Samsung’s SVP Kyungsik. At the press event, they even came up with a great always connected picture. Roanne Sones represents the software and ecosystem, Alex Katouzian represents the Snapdragon 850 and all the hardware and drivers necessary for Samsung’s EVP Kyungsik Cho a representation of OEM to make the think and light always connected PC.

This is a good indication how important the ARM / Snapdragon 850 always-connected strategy is for both Samsung and Microsoft. It looks like that challenging Intel in the PC market is on a lot of companies’ minds. We already shared a lot of details about the Snapdragon 850 in the separate story.

A few months back Fudzilla talked to Cristiano Amon and Alex Katouzian about the Samsung partnership announced in February 2018 and both confirmed that the companies plan to work much closer in the future.

Samsung wants to launch its Always-on, Always-Connected User Experiences and Katouzian believes that this partnership is very important for the future of always on, always connected Snapdragon-based PC. Samsung definitely profits the Snapdragon X20 1.2 Gbps modem as well as advancements in the faster GPU, CPU, audio and wireless performance.
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