15 March 2017
Samsung will launch its first smartphone with a chipset made with the 10nm process - the Galaxy S8 that is powered by Snapdragon 835 or Exynos 8895, depending on the market. The Korean company has big plans for its production lines - it announced it...

07 February 2017
The Land Down Under is getting some impressive LTE speeds - Telstra demonstrated its new gigabit network which achieved 930Mbps downlink and 127Mbps uplink speeds in a test. The test was done over a Netgear Nighthawk M1 mobile router.
That router...

03 February 2017
Qualcomm has posted a new ad on YouTube to promote Snapdragon processors. These processors live in tens of millions of devices all over the world, and the chip maker wants you to know that dragons don’t only live in our imaginations.
Despite...

04 January 2017
Earlier today, Qualcomm struck the mobile tech scene hard with the official announcement of the Snapdragon 835 chipset. The efficient 10nm chip is now more power-friendly and capable than ever, with particularly major performance improvements in the...

04 January 2017
Qualcomm has taken the stage at CES 2017 and another staple in the smartphone industry has been announced. Aimed to succeed the Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 835. It will be the first Qualcomm-made SoC that is commercially...

07 December 2016
Qualcomm has teamed up with Windows to provide a way to run Windows 10 x86 (32-bit) on ARM-architecture processors such as those found in smartphones of the past couple of years. With next generation ARM CPUs, Windows would be able to run on...

17 October 2016
After initiating multiple license terms and patent infringement-related actions against Meizu in China back in June this year, Qualcomm announced this past weekend that it has now filed patent infringement complaints against the Chinese company in...

29 September 2016
Qualcomm has announced two new Snapdragon models, the 600E and 410E, where the E stands for Embedded. These two models have been designed specifically for embedded computing and Internet of Things applications. This includes devices such as set-top...

18 July, 2016
Microsoft left a lot of people stunned at this E3 by announcing not one, but two Xbox One sequels. The first one is Xbox One S - slimmer, and slightly more powerful in order to handle 4K and HDR playback, while the Scorpio is coming next year with...

18 July, 2016
The Fair Trade Commission in South Korea is investigating Qualcomm for unfair market competition practices and may fine the chip maker up to 1 trillion Korean Won or $880 million.
The FTC put Qualcomm under investigation 17 months ago for...

29 June, 2016
Google's project Tango is among the company's most ambitious tech endeavors of late. And with the first Tango end user device, the Lenovo Phab2 Pro, already a reality, Google and its hardware partner - Qualcomm are naturally planning for the...

31 May, 2016
Yesterday Qualcomm painted a picture of what chipsets mid-range phones will use in the future, now here's what smartwatches will use. The Snapdragon Wear 1100 will be used in smart wearables that don't need the full power of the Wear 2100 that was...

22 February, 2016
Verizon put a release today from MWC in Barcelona, Spain. Big Red has been working with a few companies to test the blazing fast speeds that 5G technologies can bring to customers.
Verizon has been working with other companies like Apple, Intel,...

04 February, 2016
Everyone is eager to forget the Snapdragon 810 issues and move on to the 820. Early processor benchmarks didn't wipe out the competition, but maybe the new Adreno 530 GPU could impress.
Qualcomm promised a 40% performance improvement on top of a...

04 September, 2015
A couple of days ago, Qualcomm dedicated an entire blog post detailing the design of its upcoming Snapdragon 820 system-on-chip (SoC), with special focus on Kryo, its first custom-designed 64-bit quad-core CPU. The company claimed that the chipset...

03 September, 2015
In a dedicated blog post, Qualcomm announced that the upcoming Snapdragon 820 chipset will be up to twice as powerful and energy efficient as its predecessor, Snapdragon 810. The San Diego-based chipmaker has developed the SoC specifically with...

31 August, 2015
Android's Stagefright vulnerability was so serious it had phone makers pledging left and right that they will provide security updates for their handsets. Clearly mobile security is important and Qualcomm wants to enable it at the hardware level...

05 August, 2015
The Snapdragon 820 has been frequently discussed during the past few months. After the major overheating scandal that engulfed the Snapdragon 810 and definitely took its toll on Qualcomm's standing in the mobile industry as a whole, the company is...

28 July, 2015
Wireless charging has certainly started to pick up steam recently, with even Samsung putting out flagship smartphones using the tech. There's been just one problem, however: so far no one figured out how to make wireless charging work nicely with...

21 July, 2015
Qualcomm has definitely been going through some rough times lately. Its current top-of-the-line chip - the Snapdragon 810, was a major market failure, falling short of its sales forecasts and the company lost one of its biggest clients in the face...

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