|
Home > News > Tags > qualcomm
|
|
30
More: next 50 >>
As we reported to you earlier today, Microsoft has reportedly joined forces with Qualcomm to equip the second-generation Surface tablet with Snapdragon 800 processors, in an attempt to make the devices much faster.
But that’s not the only new thing to be available in Surface 2.0. If we are to trust all rumors ... |
19 June 2013
07:23 GMT |
 |
|
Microsoft is said to be working on Surface 2.0, a new-generation tablet that could be released as soon as this month at the BUILD developer conference. A report by Bloomberg and citing sources familiar with the matter reveals that Microsoft has joined forces with Qualcomm to equip the upcoming tablets with Snapdrago... |
19 June 2013
01:27 GMT |
|
|
Recently, proof that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is working with quad-core processors for upcoming Lumia devices emerged online, yet no official confirmation on the matter has been offered until now.
However, it seems that things are even better, and that Nokia’s Developer website contains reference to t... |
18 June 2013
03:46 GMT |
|
|
Qualcomm and Microsoft have joined forces for what seems to be a really big win for the tech giant, as it continues efforts to bring more Windows RT devices to the market.
Qualcomm will thus provide its high-end Snapdragon quad-core processor for future Windows RT tablets, promising to offer increasing battery life ... |
5 June 2013
10:08 GMT |
|
|
Market analyst firm IC Insight has finished its study of the year 2012, and discovered a surprising thing about the top rankings in terms of total semiconductor sales throughout the 12-month period.
Long story short, AMD came up short compared to three other companies.
While Intel came first, as expected, Advanced ... |
21 May 2013
08:49 GMT |
|
|
A new study reveals the fact that Google employees are the most optimistic about the company’s future. Career website Glassdoor has asked employees what they think about the companies their work for and how they see their prospects for the next two quarters. The study was done across 250,000 companies, but o... |
17 May 2013
08:56 GMT |
|
|
Sony hasn't even launched the Xperia Tablet Z yet, but that hasn't stopped the Internet from uncovering information on the tablet that will, eventually, succeed it.
We don't even have a name really. All we got was a forum post at Esato, where it says that a new Sony tablet will debut in the third or f... |
8 April 2013
07:23 GMT |
|
|
Samsung announced a few days ago its upcoming Galaxy S 4 will be equipped with its own Exynos 5 Octa chipset, which has been confirmed to feature two quad-core processors.However, the South Korean company also stated the Galaxy S 4 will use a different Qualcomm chipset in some markets like United States and Canada.Ob... |
16 March 2013
02:49 GMT |
|
|
Making a comparison between the NVIDIA Tegra 4 SoC (system-on-chip) and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 mobile platform isn't easy, since neither chip is actually out, but The Linley Group claim to have managed it.
Both NVIDIA and Qualcomm have released benchmark results for their respective processors. And since ... |
13 March 2013
04:54 GMT |
|
|
This one’s about as sketchy as they get, but a rumor from Asia says Apple will employ a Qualcomm SoC (system-on-a-chip) to power the wireless capabilities of a “cheap” iPhone model rolling out later this year.
First and foremost, readers should note that, regardless of how many “cheap” ... |
8 March 2013
04:42 GMT |
|
|
One would think that the waves made by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC on the mobile market would put Qualcomm on guard, but this is not the case. Qualcomm is essentially the greatest maker of mobile processors, or one of them. Its Snapdragon chips are found in many phones and tablets. The Snapdragon 800 was launched b... |
27 February 2013
10:30 GMT |
|
|
On Thursday, chip maker Qualcomm announced the launch of the Qualcomm RF360 Front End Solution, a new silicon aimed at enabling advanced connectivity inside smartphones. The new chipset packs global 4G LTE capabilities, and is said to be the first in the world to feature them. Furthermore, it also offers support fo... |
22 February 2013
07:11 GMT |
|
|
Earlier this year, chip maker Qualcomm went official with its new series of processors aimed at high-end smartphones and tablet PCs, namely the Snapdragon 800 and Snapdragon 600 families, but it seems that those were not the only chipsets that the company was preparing for us. On Wednesday, the company made officia... |
21 February 2013
02:16 GMT |
|
|
As we said the other day, batteries have become an important focus of scientists and tech companies. Qualcomm is now adding its support to the movement aiming for better power packs.
There is a certain technology that Qualcomm has invented, which promises to improve the speed of battery charging by almost half.
M... |
16 February 2013
06:20 GMT |
|
|
Windows 8 isn’t doing very well right now, at least not if you’re asking analysts and executives involved in the hardware industry. While Microsoft claims that everything is going according to plan and Windows 8’s early uptake is in line with Windows 7’s, many officials believe that it’... |
14 February 2013
08:01 GMT |
|
|
Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the launch of the next major flavor of the Android platform in the second quarter of the year.
The new OS release, supposedly called Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, has been spotted in a leaked roadmap from Qualcomm, and is expected to be made officia... |
31 January 2013
05:27 GMT |
|
|
Press releases can be a great fountain of information, but sometimes they are nothing more than belated confirmation for something that everyone interested already knows. What we are seeing now is an example of the latter.
Yesterday we said that AMD had snagged former Apple and Qualcomm talent. Now, the company has... |
23 January 2013
09:44 GMT |
|
|
Though we've heard of Advanced Micro Devices firing people more often than hiring them, the number of newcomers to the company's fold has definitely been on the rise as well, as recent events prove.
By recent events we mean to say that two very high-profile men have joined AMD's ranks: Wayne Mertsky a... |
22 January 2013
09:26 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has partnered with Qualcomm for the launch of Windows Phone 8, ensuring that the platform offers full compatibility with the company’s mobile processors, and it seems that it is looking to expand the reach of the OS. With Intel significantly increasing its presence on the mobile phone market, it won... |
10 January 2013
05:21 GMT |
|
|
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, chip maker Qualcomm announced the upcoming availability of a new series of Snapdragon processors for smartphones. The company has once again raised the bar in mobile computing performance through its newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors, which are sai... |
8 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
|
|
Though the demand level on the CPU market leaves much to be desired, the same cannot be said about the graphics card segment, which is why TSMC's update regarding its 28nm manufacturing technology is so encouraging. At this point, the world can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac... |
7 December 2012
03:45 GMT |
|
|
Chip maker Qualcomm has just announced a new Near Field Communication (NFC) chip that makes perfect sense for the next-generation iPhone 6, or even the rumored iPhone 5S. In September, shortly after the iPhone 5 launch event, Apple’s Marketing Chief Phil Schiller put the kibosh on rumors regarding NFC inclusio... |
6 December 2012
04:03 GMT |
|
|
Chip maker Qualcomm has two new chipsets available in the Snapdragon S4 family of mobile processors, namely the MSM8226 and MSM8626 CPUs. Both of them were made official along with their Reference Design versions and offer the Adreno 305 GPU, 1080p capture and playback capabilities, as well as support for photo sna... |
5 December 2012
18:41 GMT |
|
|
The Yen is weaker than the dollar by a great margin, which means that 5 billion Yen isn't as huge a sum of money as it sounds. Then again, random people would consider even a single million dollars a fortune.
Qualcomm is the one that will soon be 5 billion yen shorter. The sum is equivalent to $61 million / 46 ... |
4 December 2012
09:10 GMT |
|
|
Project RAY and Qualcomm have just announced the upcoming availability of an eye-free smartphone aimed at blind and visually impaired people.
The RAY device is an easy-to-use, multi-function smartphone, which is synchronized with Israel's Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped audio bo... |
23 October 2012
16:01 GMT |
|
|
AMD’s HSA Foundation is getting bigger and bigger and the new members that are joining in are really powerful companies with heavy influence in the computing industry. The world’s largest fabless CPU designer, American company Qualcomm has joined HAS as a founder member. Qualcomm is now ruling the ARM ma... |
3 October 2012
16:51 GMT |
|
|
Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, will land on shelves soon with appealing new features packed inside, some of them powered by the Snapdragon S4 processors inside them.
These chips are bound to provide users with great performance levels on their devices, and Nokia is mak... |
1 October 2012
12:31 GMT |
|
|
Today, Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the upcoming availability of the MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q, two new mobile processors that have been included in the Snapdragon S4 Play family of CPUs.
Both of them have been designed to provide users with fast performance, and will be delivered to OEMs both in dual-core and q... |
27 September 2012
03:20 GMT |
|
|
In an interesting development, Qualcomm has decided to leave being its noble and non-combative attitude towards Intel or other competitors. The company has just posted a video where they compare a two-year-old SnapDragon S2 to a 2012 Atom Medfield.
While synthetic benchmarks portray Medfield as a valid competitor fo... |
27 September 2012
01:59 GMT |
|
|
Well-known electronics giant, Japanese company NEC has developed a new tablet for NTT DoCoMo mobile operator. The new device has a 7” display and it is the lightest 7” tablet in the world. The official denomination of the new tablet is Medias Tab UL N08-D and the SoC powering it is Qualcomm’s famou... |
22 September 2012
19:11 GMT |
|
|
Not many were expecting AMD’s old low-power Radeon technology to eventually beat Nvidia’s top performing Tegra 3. Qualcomm has worked really hard on their Adreno series of mobile iGPUs, but the customers still view them as the second best to Nvidia’s mobile GeForce. Once Qualcomm’s Adreno 320... |
19 September 2012
22:21 GMT |
|
|
Intel has been pretty silent about smartphones during this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California. Eventually, the company announced the 2 GHz version of the Medfield Atom and we reported all about that here. The thing is that we’ve compared the new CPU with other mobile processors using ARM archi... |
19 September 2012
07:41 GMT |
|
|
World’s largest fabless chip designer, American company Qualcomm is used to design its own mobile CPUs and their respective integrated graphics processing units (iGPU). We know that the company’s famous Snapdragon processors are based on the ARM architecture, but the designs are original. Many other ARM ... |
17 September 2012
12:01 GMT |
|
|
Once Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system is launched this October, ARM will have secured a serious foothold in the Windows software market. Sure the x86 Windows applications will not work on WindowsRT, but we’re certain that these will be much easier to port than going from ARM Android to x86 Windows 8... |
4 September 2012
21:01 GMT |
|
|
There were many rumors regarding HTC’s highly anticipated tablet device and today, the first ever pictures of the new design have surfaced on the internet. The new tablet is likely to be powered by Qualcomm’s AP8064 quad core mobile processor that we’ve presented here.
The new processor uses four c... |
29 August 2012
19:11 GMT |
|
|
The company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California run by Tim Cook has reportedly failed to secure exclusive access to chip supplies by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), who was once said to be considering creating the A6 SoC (system on a chip) for Apple.
A Bloomberg Businessweek pi... |
29 August 2012
11:51 GMT |
|
|
Qualcomm has been flashing its APQ8064 development tablet ever since the UpLink conference that took place in June this year, as we reported here, but only during the past few days did professionals manage to properly benchmark and compare the new platform with what’s currently on the market. Hardware experts ... |
27 August 2012
07:19 GMT |
|
|
The next high-end smartphone coming for LG, the Optimus G has just been confirmed by the South Korean mobile phone manufacturer.
Details on the upcoming device leaked earlier last week, but LG was mum on alleged Optimus G until recently.
Rumored to come packed with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro all-in-one chip... |
27 August 2012
03:32 GMT |
|
|
We’ve got used to see AMD as an independent and traditional American company for such a long time that a buyout seems like something out of this world. The thing is that corporatism is taking over capitalism and if you look for the other synonym to capitalism, things might not seem so rosy.
A buyout will mean ... |
9 August 2012
08:31 GMT |
|
|
This month seems to be one when lots of high-ranking staff members on the IT market get booted or hired, so it isn't all that shocking to learn that Qualcomm did something of the sort.
Qualcomm has hired a certain someone that people who pay attention to the happenings on the IT industry will remember from whe... |
6 August 2012
08:52 GMT |
|
|
A smaller device means a smaller battery and this may negatively impact the marketing numbers that you’re going to advertise about your new device. It’s only a matter of time until Apple launches the smaller iPad, but there are many design and configuration issues that the company will have to deal with.
... |
31 July 2012
05:37 GMT |
|
|
Lately, there has been a rumor running rampant in the hardware community that Apple’s next iPhone smartphone might face delays due to the current semiconductor shortage. Some reports apparently link the current 28nm capacity constraints to Apple’s timing in the iPhone 5 launch. The main problem the Cuper... |
27 July 2012
05:35 GMT |
|
|
We reported about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro micro-processor many times before. Here you can see it in action at this year’s UpLinq and here is a demonstration of its graphic processing power. New benchmarks have apparently surfaced the internet today and they show Krait completely thrashing the competi... |
25 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
|
|
Qualcomm and its Snapdragon line of power-efficient microprocessors have forever changed the semiconductor world. It is not only that these fueled a performance race in the mobile phone and tablet market, but now the company’s moves are changing the entire business. The success of the previous models launched ... |
25 July 2012
06:11 GMT |
|
|
Chinese computer maker Lenovo is now officially shipping its new 10.1” Transformer-like tablet. The new gadget is more affordable than ASUS’ own Transformer, while claiming longer battery life and better performance. Lenovo’s new tablet is designated IdeaTab S2110 and is built around Qualcomm&rsquo... |
24 July 2012
20:31 GMT |
|
|
After little to no market feedback, four failed launches and overall inability to produce a suitably high and interesting inventory, Qualcomm's Mirasol display technology is being relegated to the back burner.
The Mirasol display, which absorbs ambient light through a process based on butterfly wing iridescence... |
23 July 2012
08:14 GMT |
|
|
We've seen how Apple managed to turn its patent war with Samsung into an absolutely bizarre situation, so now we get to see what weird things happened as part of the latter's counterattack.
Samsung hasn't landed in situations as strange as the one Apple might soon be in, the one that gave ''... |
23 July 2012
06:16 GMT |
|
|
During Qualcomm’s recent Uplink 2012 conference that we reported on here, the company’s VP of product management, Raj Talluri, has presented real console-grade graphics on a power efficient SoC. The chip in question is the impressive APQ8064 processor that we presented here. The processor is set to work... |
17 July 2012
04:51 GMT |
|
|
During the past decade, the costs of building a new and high-end semiconductor factory have risen quite a bit. From two or three billion dollars back in the days of AMD’s Dresden FAB, the costs are now over ten billion for a 450 mm wafer FAB. IBM has historically pulled back from any kind of business that mani... |
15 July 2012
22:41 GMT |
|
|
Back in late spring of this year we were debating on the likelihood that Qualcomm might contract GlobalFoundries to manufacture 28nm chips for them. TSMC was not able to meet the demand at the time and was also clearly not able to comply with future demand increase for Qualcomm’s powerful ARM chips.Although Qua... |
15 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
|
More: next 50 >> |
|
|
Find us on Google+
