Your Mercedes-Benz EV may soon wirelessly charge just like a Formula-E car, with Daimler inking a deal with Qualcomm around high-tech car gadgetry. The two companies are partnering up on automotive development, including wireless charging both for cars and the smartphones and tablets inside them, as well as ways to get connected cars online and at high speed while on the move. ForQualcomm, it’s an opportunity to branch out beyond the increasingly competitive smartphone chipset market.
There, the mobile processor firm has seen rising challenges as big names like Apple and Samsung develop their own silicon rather than look to specialists like Qualcomm for chipsets such as the Snapdragon.
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