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Why Qualcomm? They make mobile chips. Are we going to see SoCs specially optimized for communicating with CloudFlare servers? That sounds like a potentially bad
by TorKlingberg 11y ago
Why Qualcomm? They make mobile chips. Are we going to see SoCs specially optimized for communicating with CloudFlare servers? That sounds like a potentially bad idea.
- justicezyx 11y agoThey are the big player in China market, probably only behind IBM MSFT.
- kej 11y agoI'm guessing it's something like this: CloudFlare makes the Internet fast, which makes mobile Internet fast, which helps sell mobile phones, which use Qualcomm chips.
- pakled_engineer 11y agoBoth MS and QC have jointly invested in CDN mobile video streaming before like “DASH: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Better Mobile Video User Experience.” Since Cloudflare has full China access the goal would be to take over the local streaming market I guess, sell Xiaomi or MS phones with streaming packages that likely MS will provide or lease out.
- pki 11y agoMS also has china access via Azure China