Qualcomm and Trimble Introduce Meter-Level Location Accuracy for Smartphones
Published: Mar. 22, 2022 at 7:30 AM EDT|Updated: 5 hours ago Trimble RTX Technology to Work with Premium Snapdragon Mobile Platforms for Enhanced Smartphone Location-based Applications Including Lane-Level Navigation SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN DIEGO,…
Qualcomm thinks Qualcomm-powered laptops are too expensive
TL;DR A Qualcomm executive has criticized the “inadequate” pricing of early Windows on Arm devices. Windows laptops using top-end Snapdragon PC silicon have generally retailed for $1,000 or more. Qualcomm and Microsoft beat Apple to the punch by several…
Gary Explains: Qualcomm, MediaTek, Raspberry Pi, and Qualcomm Again
As 2021 hurtles towards its end and we see 2022 appear on the horizon, you might think that there is no new tech news to be shared. But you would be wrong! There is much to be said about Qualcomm, MediaTek, the Raspberry Pi, and Qualcomm again!…
Qualcomm Takes On Apple’s M1 With The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3
Qualcomm is expanding on its line of PC chips. The chipmaker announced not one, but two new platforms destined for Windows-based PCs. These include the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 computer platform, and the slightly lower-powered Snapdragon 7c+ Gen…
Qualcomm launches new PC chipsets, handheld gaming SoC
Qualcomm has been in the Windows on Arm space for several years now, dating back to the Snapdragon 835 powering the first wave of Windows on Arm laptops back in 2018. We’ve since seen the Snapdragon 8cx range become the flagship processor in this range,…
Qualcomm Pushes Smartphone Tech Forward with Latest Snapdragon Line
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Mobile Platform Gen 1 is the company’s latest premium chip for Android … [+] phones. Qualcomm One of the fascinating outcomes of the pandemic is that PCs have regained center stage as the core device for many…
Qualcomm Deal May Be the Reason Windows on ARM Laptops Suck
Photo: Gizmodo Let your Mac-owning friends boast all they want about the blinding speeds of Apple’s new M-series chips, because who needs fast performance when you have freedom of choice? That’s one of the benefits of buying a PC—or at least, it’s…
Qualcomm Confirms Snapdragon in Galaxy S22, Other Companies’ Flagships
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors will be in 40-50% of the global volume of Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy S phones, the chipmaker said at its investor conference in New York today. That means for the Galaxy S22, Samsung will follow the strategy it has…
Qualcomm Pledges Apple M-Series Competitor in 2022
Qualcomm may be a smartphone leader, but it’s been an also-ran in PCs for years now. While the chipset company has struggled to get its chips into Windows machines, Apple’s M1 chip, based on a similar ARM instruction set, recently took the market by…
Ex-Apple engineers are helping Qualcomm build new chip to rival M1
The performance and power efficiency of Apple’s M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max chips have astounded us over the past year, and now chipmaker Qualcomm has announced plans to debut a rival chip in 2023 with the help of some former Apple employees. This is a…