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Links Week Starting 11th April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. ICDT in China to be postponed because …

Strategy Analytics: MediaTek Exited 2021 with Over 75 Million Unit Lead Over Qualcomm in Smartphone Apps Processors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics published its 2021 result for the smartphone AP market and ranked Qualcomm as top in revenue (38%), but MediaTek sold 75 million more units than the US firm. Both …

Samsung retains top spot in Omdia Q4 2021 semiconductor market analysis

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Omdia reported its Q4 2021 figures for the semiconductor business showing that Intel just, barely, squeezed past Samsung Electronics for the year as a whole although Samsung was in top spot …

Infographic: Q4 2021 | Semiconductors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published its data on the semiconductor market in Q4 2021 which showed Samsung well ahead of Intel with strong DRAM and NAND sales. Major smartphone SoC and GPU vendors …

New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bob O’Donnell is an analyst that we pay attention to (and he sometimes contributes DD articles). When he says something is important, I pay attention. He said that an announcement last …

TrinamiX Announces the Next-generation of Facial Recognition for Upcoming Mobile Devices Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platforms

by Artem Alekseenko

trinamiX GmbH, a leader in 3D imaging and infrared sensing technologies, today announced it has joined the Qualcomm Software Accelerator Program to enable its patented technology for “live skin” detection as the new gold-standard …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| face recognition| Qualcomm

Lenovo Announces the First Arm-based ThinkPad & Boost USB-C Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has announced its first ThinkPad-branded notebook based on an Arm processor from Qualcomm. The Thinkpad X13s is said to have 28 hours of battery life (49.5WHr battery) for video playback …

Tags:Lenovo| Notebooks| Qualcomm| USB Monitors| Windows

Qualcomm’s New Deal With ByteDance and Pico

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm announced at MWC that it is working in a new partnership with ByteDance that is now the owner of the Pico VR company. (TikTok owner ByteDance could acquire VR headset …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 28th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. We were sad to see that VGX …

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Qualcomm is adding AV1 support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm is reported by Protocol Entertainment to be developing a chip, the SM8550, due at the end of the year or later, that will support AV1 native decoding. The article reports …

Qualcomm is Expanding in XR R&D & Developing ‘5G Necklace’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Auganix reported that Qualcomm is boosting its R&D investment in XR with the opening of six new labs in Europe. Separately, Engadget reported that the firm has developed a ‘5G neckband’ …