Qualcomm said its V2X chipsets will support Japan's 760 MHz band alongside 5.9 GHz

Qualcomm Technologies said on October 20 that its vehicle-to-everything chipsets will support the 760 MHz ARIB-T109 standard, the band Japan uses for its ITS Connect service, alongside the 5.9 GHz band the parts already carry.

The company said the chipsets would support “nearly all major regional V2X deployments worldwide through a single platform”, and that the purpose was to reduce the need for region-specific hardware and lower deployment complexity. Nakul Duggal, who heads Qualcomm’s automotive, industrial and embedded computing and robotics group, attributed the result to extending what he called the company’s V2X technology abstraction to the Japanese band.

The release carried a statement from Keiji Yamamoto, chief officer of Toyota’s digital information and communication group and chair of ITS Japan, who said Toyota welcomed the effort toward a society without traffic accidents and that road accidents could not be solved by any single company, sector or region. Both companies framed the work against Vision Zero, the goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries.

Qualcomm described V2X as the only sensor in the vehicle safety stack that works without line of sight, detecting hazards around corners and beyond visible range, and named pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists among the road users it is meant to protect.

The press note is the whole primary record: no corresponding filing appeared on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s daily index for October 20. Qualcomm did not say which chipsets are affected, when parts carrying the band reach production, or whether any manufacturer has selected them. The claim of native compatibility with the Japanese standard is the company’s own; no ARIB document was checked against it.