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Good News and Bad News for Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

In separate news stories, there was good news and bad news for Qualcomm over the holiday. on the bad news side the company got a fine of $865 million for ‘abuse of market dominance’ …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Microsoft to Run Windows 10 on Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft is developing a version of Windows 10 that will run on systems using Qualcomm chips. Microsoft is said to be keen to get the operating system onto mobile devices that have the lower …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Snapdragon to be Made on Samsung 10nm

by Bob Raikes

We recently reported that Samsung is switching to 10nm technology and now we hear that Qualcomm will have its Snapdragon 835 made with the process. The chip is in production now and sets with …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Qualcomm Results 02/11/2016

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Qualcomm Inc. announced Q4 FY16 consolidated sales of $6.2 bn with Q4 FY16 net profit of $1.6 bn, resulting in a net profit margin of 26%. Both sales and net profit were significantly higher …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Qualcomm Incorporated and NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP. Pursuant to the agreement, a subsidiary of …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Qualcomm

Qualcomm to Buy NXP for $47 billion

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the rumours of a deal between NXP and Qualcomm at the the end of September. Now the deal has been confirmed, but at a higher price and Qualcomm will acquire NXP …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Qualcomm Brings Deep Learning, Ultra HD and Edge Compute to Support Powerful New Connected Smart Cameras

by Milos Pavlovic

Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has expanded its portfolio of technologies to support a new generation of video and imaging devices. The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ connected camera portfolio includes a …

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Qualcomm Adds UltraHD Encoding

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 625 processor which is built using 14nm technology and adds UltraHD HEVC encoding, allowing capture of UltraHD content at 30fps. Other features include an octa-core 64-bit CPU, an integrated X9 …

Qualcomm to Sell All of Its 10-Nano APs to Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

ETNews has reported that Qualcomm has committed to supply all of its 10 nanometre production of its next Snapdragon 830 application processor to Samsung for the next (S8?) Galaxy smartphone. The paper reports that …

Qualcomm Could Acquire NXP Semiconductors

by Yvette Raikes

There have been several recent acquisitions in the chip industry, and another is widely rumoured to be on the cards although neither company will comment. Qualcomm is said to be in talks about buying …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 38

IFA Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Aiptek, the specialist maker of pico-projectors was showing its Boombox P800 which we reported on in detail in June (Aiptek Shows Pico and Micro Projectors at CE Week). The Boombox is now going on …

Qualcomm Drives Iris Scanning on Note 7

by Tom Allen

Samsung is using Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 820 processor on its Galaxy Note 7 phablet in select regions. The processor is key to supporting the iris scanning feature which is unique to the handset.