Advertisements Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC is official. Announced on Tuesday as a part of a virtual event, the new SoC will succeed the company’s Snapdragon 865 (and 865+). As you can expect, Android smartphone makers have lined up to announce that they will be using Snapdragon 888 SoC in their phones. None of these announcements […]
Advertisements The biggest-ever takeover of a chipmaker Broadcom Ltd., which is the largest producer of the Wi-Fi chips, is reportedly exploring a $100 billion deal to takeover Qualcomm Inc in what would be the biggest acquisition of a chipmaker. Bloomberg, which exclusively reported the talks of the acquisition, is saying that the final decision to […]
Advertisements As Apple gears up to introduce the new iPhones later today, Qualcomm has published a blog post reminding users how the company and its Android partners have achieved several industry firsts over the last many years. The timing of the post is very interesting given Qualcomm and Apple are currently a part of a […]
Advertisements Cyanogen Inc has partnered with Qualcomm to offer Cyanogen OS with Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) for various Snapdragon processors. This move will help the small device makers, who use reference designs as a turnkey solution to churn-out smartphones without major development costs. Such vendors will now have the option to choose Cyanogen OS as […]
Advertisements Looks like chip maker Qualcomm is planning to jump in the smartwatch market with its own offering. According to reliable leaker evleaks, the company will release a smartwatch called Zola in September this year. There are no other details available right now but Qualcomm could use one of its entry-level chips and Mirasol display […]
Advertisements Qualcomm has posted the details pertaining to new SoCs for entry and mid-range smartphones/tablets today. Dubbed as Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400, these processors will be seen in several Android devices later this year. According to Qualcomm, Snapdragon 200 processors include quad ARM Cortex-A5 CPUs up to 1.4GHz per core, along with Adreno 203 […]
Advertisements Qualcomm has revealed that 70 smartphones and tablets with Qualcomm chipsets inside them include a new technology called Quick Charge 1.0. It allows the smartphone batteries to charge much faster than normally. Qualcomm states that normally a smartphone battery might take more than four hours to charge fully, but thanks to Quick Charge 1.0, […]
Advertisements After falling to developer requests and releasing ICS Graphic drivers for Adreno 2xx GPUs for ARMv7 based chipsets, company has now stepped up and made available the same for even ARMv6 devices.