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QUALCOMM UNLEASHES A NEW ERA OF AUTONOMOUS DRONE CAPABILITIES WITH WORLD’S FIRST
5G AND AI-ENABLED DRONE PLATFORM

Qualcomm Flight™ RB5 5G Platform Accelerates and Scales Development for Drone
Manufacturers to Deliver Powerful, Purpose-Built Enterprise and Industrial 5G
Drones

Aug 17, 2021SAN DIEGO

Qualcomm products mentioned within this press release are offered by Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Following the success of the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars as a key breakthrough
for unmanned flight powered by the Qualcomm Flight Platform – Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc. continues its drone leadership by unveiling the world’s first
drone platform and reference design to offer both 5G and AI-capabilities, the
Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform. This new solution helps accelerate development
for commercial, enterprise, and industrial drones, and unleashes innovative
possibilities for industries looking to adopt drone solutions and realize the
benefits of the intelligent edge. The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, powered
by the Qualcomm® QRB5165 processor, builds upon Qualcomm Technologies’ latest
IoT offerings, delivering a solution which will drive the next generation of
high-performance, low-power, 5G drones.


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As a primary driver of global 5G proliferation, Qualcomm Technologies has acted
as a catalyst and visionary in enabling 5G to scale and revolutionize the
robotics and drone industry. The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform brings
cutting-edge capabilities to the drone industry by condensing multiple complex
technologies into one tightly integrated drone system to support evolving
applications and new use cases in sectors including film and entertainment,
security and emergency response, delivery, defense, inspection, and mapping.

“We have continued to engage many leading drone companies, enabling 200+ global
robotics and drone ecosystem members in addition to consistently driving and
promoting worldwide drone standardization and transformative 5G capabilities in
organizations such as 3GPP, GSMA, the Global UTM Alliance, the Aerial
Connectivity Joint Initiative (ACJA) and ASTM,” said Dev Singh, senior director,
business development and general manager of autonomous robotics, drones and
intelligent machines, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are proud to continue our
momentum of enabling the digital transformation of global industries by
unveiling the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, a solution that is purpose-built
for drone development with enhanced autonomy and intelligence features, bringing
premium connected flight capabilities to industrial, enterprise and commercial
segments.”

The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform’s high-performance and heterogeneous
computing at ultra-low power consumption provides power efficient inferencing at
the edge for AI and Machine Learning (ML) enabling fully autonomous drones.
 Breakthrough camera capabilities deliver premium image capabilities and
performance. With 5G and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, this platform enhances critical
flying abilities beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) to support safer, more
reliable flight. In addition, safety controls alone can no longer assure
industrial and commercial drone safety, especially when scaling to Beyond Visual
Line of Sight operations. The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform is equipped with a
Qualcomm® Secure Processing Unit to support modern drone demands for
cybersecurity protections as a key enabler of data-protection and safety
requirements.  

Qualcomm Technologies is working with Verizon to complete network testing of the
Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform for the Verizon 5G network, and expects the
platform, which is 5G mmWave capable, will be offered via the Verizon Thingspace
Marketplace.

The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G drone reference design is available for pre-sale now
through ModalAI. The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G development kit is expected to be
available in Q4 of 2021. For more information on the platform, including
technical features, please visit the product details page here.

Global carriers and IoT ecosystem leaders showcase validation and support for
Qualcomm Technologies latest drone solution:   

Asia Pacific Telecom

“As the leader in innovative telecom services in Taiwan, Asia Pacific Telecom
Co., Ltd (APT) is excited to work with one of our most important strategic
collaborators, Qualcomm Technologies on the support of 5G and AI-enabled drones.
APT provides 5G and application integration services to advance the performance
of robots and drones in different perspectives. We truly believe that 5G
capabilities built into the platform will enable new autonomous drone
experiences,” said Mr. Shang-Chen Kao, chief technology officer, network and
technology center, Asia Pacific Telecom.

AT&T

“Many of the anticipated benefits of drones will be further accelerated and
strengthened with 5G, including delivery, inspections, and search and rescue,
which will require a highly secure and reliable connection. We are excited to
see Qualcomm Technologies continue to innovate with their latest announcement on
a platform for 5G drones,” said Kevin Hetrick, vice-president, access
construction and engineering, AT&T.

China Unicom  

“The 5G-enabled digital era has brought wider boundaries for every industry and
China Unicom is committed to pushing the boundaries of the traditional
communications ecosystem and working together with the industrial chain to
realize mutual complementarity. As one of our important collaborators, Qualcomm
Technologies has been working with China Unicom to drive integration of 5G and
IoT into vertical use cases and provide products such as 5G modules and 5G
industrial gateways for automation and robotics use cases, with focused areas
including industrial equipment, iron and steel manufacturing, transportation and
port, mining and energy, and healthcare,” said Li Kai, chief product officer,
IoT division, China Unicom Digital Technology Company Limited. “We believe the
announcement of the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform will benefit more use cases.
China Unicom is looking forward to deepening collaborations with Qualcomm
Technologies in IoT and jointly creating a new blueprint for 5G in the future.”

Everguard.ai

"Use of drones to capture imagery for construction site topographic mapping,
construction progress tracking, security surveillance and equipment tracking in
combination with IoT sensors that are deployed on construction sites are
revolutionizing how construction projects are delivered! 5G enabled data from
drones can be leveraged to unleash the power of artificial intelligence and
machine learning algorithms yielding massive improvements in the safety,
efficiency and productivity of construction projects,” said Sandeep Pandya,
chief executive officer, Everguard.ai.

FlightOps

“By working with Qualcomm Technologies, we have seamlessly installed  the
FlightOps onboard software on the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, allowing for
unparalleled performance, compute power, low energy footprint, high quality
video processing and high speed 5G connectivity to achieve high levels of
autonomy and mission scalability,” said Shay Levy, chief executive officer,
FlightOps.

Juganu

“Qualcomm Technologies has been a leader of breakthrough technologies for years
and their announcement of the world's first 5G, AI-enabled drone platform – the
Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform – is the latest example of their continued
innovation. We at Juganu are excited to work with Qualcomm Technologies as they
continue to push the boundaries of technology and look forward to using these
technologies to innovate across our own smart technology quickly, safely and
securely,” said chief strategy officer, Eran Efrati, Juganu.

KT Corporation

"KT is excited to see Qualcomm Technologies bringing cutting-edge 5G drone
technology based on the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform. We’re leveraging our
deep expertise in translating diverse services and use cases into reality across
vertical industries,” said Byungkyun Kim, head of device business unit, KT. “We
expect Qualcomm Technologies will expand the 5G–based drone industry and pave a
way to the development of the drones based on the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G
Platform.”

LG Uplus

"Qualcomm Technologies’ launch of the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform has great
significance to the drone ecosystem as the integration of drones with 5G
communication and AI technology can maximize drone usability and convenience,"
said Youngseo Jeon, B2B service development director, LG Uplus. "We are
expecting U+ smart drone service which contains telecommunication, control, and
video will combine with the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform and play a key role
across diverse drone industry fields."

MITRE

“The reliability, availability, and low latency of 5G enable previously
unavailable command and control of UAS, solving critical UAS safety
considerations and enabling operation beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). With
this connectivity and the added benefit of moving intelligence to the edge, we
are now beginning to realize real solutions with significant impact on business
and our everyday lives,” said Rakesh Kushwaha, managing director, MITRE
Engenuity Open Generation. “The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform brings advanced
intelligence to autonomous decisions, enabling detect and avoid (DAA) even
beyond network connectivity. It is a game changer. We are looking forward to
having Qualcomm Technologies participate in the MITRE Engenuity Open
Generation.”

ModalAI

“ModalAI accelerates autonomy by providing innovators with robot and drone
perception and communications systems. Since our founding, we have committed to
enabling aerial and ground robot manufacturers with capabilities that can excel
a broad set of industries. We are thrilled to collaborate with Qualcomm
Technologies to bring the first purpose-built 5G drone that opens cutting-edge
computing to a broad set of integrators who can build their applications that
take advantage of the coming aerial 5G wave," said Chad Sweet, chief executive
officer, co-founder, ModalAI.

Taiwan Mobile

“We are glad to see Qualcomm Technologies innovate on the 5G drone application
continuously, including enterprise-related solutions. Taiwan Mobile offers “real
5G” services with safer and faster advantages to support creative development,
and get together with Open Possible,” said Mr. C. H. Wu, vice president, chief
enterprise business officer, Taiwan Mobile.

TDK

“TDK is extremely excited to join with Qualcomm Technologies on such a
state-of-the-art drone platform,” said Peter Hartwell, chief technology officer,
InvenSense, a TDK Group Company.  “TDK has a multi-technology focus on Robotics
across a robust product portfolio – much of which can be found on the Qualcomm
Flight RB5 5G Platform and TDK Mezzanine platforms.  Our decision to collaborate
with Qualcomm Technologies to utilize breakthrough sensor technology alongside
the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, which I believe to be most innovative drone
reference design in the world.”

Veea

“Many of the anticipated benefits of drones will be further accelerated and
strengthened with 5G, including monitoring critical infrastructure, crowd
management, and emergency response which includes detection, containment and
extinguishing of wildfires, reporting on crop health, monitoring of livestock
and irrigation systems at large acreage farms, and much more. The large majority
of these use cases require a highly secure and reliable connection that can be
more readily supported with 5G connections. We are excited to see Qualcomm
Technologies continuing to push the boundaries of innovation with their latest
announcement on the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform and we at Veea are looking
forward to using these technologies to innovate across our deployments of hybrid
edge-cloud solutions such as at large farms, wildlife parks, stadiums, smart
cities, large construction sites and similar projects,” said Allen Salmasi,
chief executive officer, Veea.

Verizon Skyward

“The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform provides a robust hardware platform that
can be certified for the Verizon 5G network, offering the ecosystem of drone
developers a simple path to get connected. That means drones built with the
Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform can leverage the massive capacity of Verizon 5G
Ultra-Wideband to navigate the National Airspace System in safer and more
productive ways than ever before,” said Eric T. Ringer, co-founder, chief of
staff, Skyward, a Verizon company.

Zyter

“Many of the anticipated benefits of drones will be further accelerated and
strengthened with 5G, which provides a high bandwidth connection that is secure
and reliable," said Sanjay Govil, founder and chief executive officer, Zyter,
Inc. "We are excited to begin leveraging and integrating the Qualcomm Flight RB5
5G Platform for 5G drones into our own SmartSpaces™ IoT solutions for smart
campuses and cities, smart construction, and other applications."

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving
force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the
phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational
technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and
5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including
automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a
world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.

Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast
majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of
Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all
of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of
our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business.

5G

Qualcomm and Qualcomm Flight are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm
Incorporated.

Qualcomm Flight, Qualcomm Secure Processing Unit and Qualcomm QRB5165 are
products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Qualcomm Contacts

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Corporate Communications

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corpcomm@qualcomm.com

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Investor Relations

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