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05 Qualcomm Looks to 5G

by Bob Raikes

Rajesh Pankesh is head of R&D at Qualcomm, which makes more than 800 million chips per year as the largest fabless chip company. He gave the first of the end of day keynotes. What …

Meizu Phone Has Dual Displays

by Milos Pavlovic

Chinese smartphone maker, Meizu, has said that its new Meizu Pro 7 smartphone, due in July would use a MediaTek X30 chipset and will also have an unusual secondary display on the back of …

HTC Vive & Lenovo To Use Qualcomm Daydream Reference

by Bob Raikes

HTC and Lenovo are building stand alone headsets based on the latest Qualcomm reference design according to the RoadtoVR blog. Qualcomm has released more information about the components in the reference design including the …

Qualcomm Fingerprint Technology Works Through Display

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has developed new ultrasonic fingerprint detectors that add to the features of the previous version, the firm said. There are sensors for displays, glass and metal as well as the detection of directional …

Tags:Chips| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Qualcomm Boosts Mid-Range

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm announced new Snapdragon 450 series chips for mid-range smartphones and tabltes and based on the 14nm FinFET process. The chip is an upgrade to the Snapdragon 435 series. The GPU and CPU are …

Microsoft Resuscitates the Baby

by Jon Peddie

The father of the PC was IBM and so we suppose Microsoft was the mother. The godfather of the PC may turn out to be Qualcomm if what we saw in Taipei is any …

Tags:Microsoft| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 23| Windows

Asustek, HP and Lenovo Work With Qualcomm on Windows 10

by Bob Raikes

Further to our story a couple of weeks ago about the development of Windows 10 PCs based on the ARM architecture and using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Asus, HP and Lenovo have been announced …

Apple Tells OEMs to Stop Paying Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has issued a complaint against Foxconn as well as Pegatron, Wistron and Compal. The companies had deals with Qualcomm before they started supplying Apple, but they say that as Apple believes it should …

Qualcomm Ships Mid-Range APUs

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm introduced the 630 and 660 Snapdragon application processors which are updates on the Snapdragon 625 and 653 processors with more power, more features and better connectivity as well as addressing battery life. Performance …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Qualcomm-based VRDK Headset to be Launched in 2H 2017

by Alan Spencer

As previously reported, the Qualcomm VRDK is a reference design for manufacturers to use to create headsets based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip, which is built specifically for VR. The first headset to be …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Mediatek X30 Struggling against 835?

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that Mediatek is struggling to ramp up production of its Helios X30 AP (MWC 2017 Round-up) and that, as a result, Qualcomm is winning business for its Snapdragon 835. The site …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon 835 VR Developer Kit Headset

by Arthur Berman

Qualcomm debuted the company’s Snapdragon 835 VR Developer Kit (VRDK) headset at the recent GDC 2017 (Game Developers Conference). The headset is not a consumer device. Rather, the VRDK is primarily intended to serve …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09