A 3G and smartphone stat-attack from the tech giant at its annual innovation showcase.
Today, Qualcomm gathered partners suppliers and journos together in Istanbul for its annual Innovation showcase.
And as usual, there was the usual stat-attack from CEO Paul Jacobs in his opening keynote.
Qualcomm owns many of the technologies that power mobile networks all over the world. It also makes the chipsets that go inside phones, tablets, netbooks and the new emergent 'internet of things' devices. It has spent $15.5 billion on R&D in its lifetime.
So it has a nice lofty position from which it can deliver stats and projections on subjects that affect the whole biz.
Here are its latest highlights:
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* 3G: There are 1.3 billion 3G connections worldwide, and will be 2bn by 2015. In Europe the total is 332m of which 224m are in the West and 108m in the East. That's 39 per cent of all European mobile users. The rate will hit 56 per cent by 2015.
* Next gen 3G: There are 136 HSPA networks live with 193 imminent. Meanwhile 24 LTE networks have been deployed with 166 commitments to come.
* Smartphones: 4bn will be sold between 2011 and 2015, with low end phones powering most growth. Qualcomm thinks the annual growth in sub $300 devices will be 30 per cent. But it also has a roadmap for sub $50 smartphone. Today, 45 per cent of phones in Western Europe and 25 per cent in the East are smartphones. By 2015 the respective rates will be 65 per cent and 43 per cent.
* Chipsets: Mass market devices can now support 1GHz, while the top end device support quadcore processors. The first such devices will ship this year.
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