Qualcomm has teased that it will announce a Snapdragon 800 powered smartphone at CES 2015. The company gave a first look of the device via its official Twitter account.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip will support Cat 9 LTE support
Qualcomm has added LTE Category 9 network support to its upcoming Snapdragon 810 processor. The Snapdragon 810 processor with integrated LTE-Advanced modem can handle download speeds of up to 450 Mbps over three 20MHz LTE carriers.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 reference hardware devices go on sale
Qualcomm has released reference smartphone and tablet hardware kits. Priced at $799 and $999 respectively, the mobile development platforms are being offered by the Canadian company Intrinsyc.
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Qualcomm buys chipmaker CSR for $2.5 billion
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire UK based bluetooth and GPS chipmaker CSR for $2.5 billion. The world’s number one mobile chipmaker, has agreed to pay £9.00 per share in cash for CSR and the total acquisition is priced approximately at £1.6 billion ( $2.5 billion).
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Qualcomm introduces 3D printable robot Snapdragon Micro Rover
Qualcomm has unveiled a 3D printable robot Snapdragon Micro Rover with an aim to harness the computing power and capabilities of a smartphone and apply that to interesting applications in robotics.
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Timex unveils Ironman One GPS+ smartwatch for $399
Timex has forayed into smartwatch market with Ironman One GPS+. Targeted at fitness enthusiasts and athletes the smartwatch reports speed and distance traveled by the wearer.
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Qualcomm ushers LTE Direct battery saving for contextual awareness
Qualcomm has stated that it has found a solution for battery saving issue while using LTE Direct. The chipmaker is stating a technology which is a device-to-device discovery service to exchange information at a range of around 500 meters.
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Qualcomm buys Wilocity, aims to boost next-gen Wi-fi WiGig
Qualcomm has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Wilocity which is working on chips for the next-generation of Wi-Fi, known as WiGig and 802.11ad. Continue reading “Qualcomm buys Wilocity, aims to boost next-gen Wi-fi WiGig”
Qualcomm spins off location aware business into separate entity
Qualcomm today announced its intentions to spin off it’s bluetooth beacon business into a separate entity dubbed as Gimbal Inc. Gimbal was Qualcomm’s take on Apple’s iBeacon and the company had started selling the proximity beacon in December.
While Qualcomm will remain a substantial stakeholder in the business, it plans to sell off the Gimbal business to third party investors. Working in the same vein as iBeacon, the technology allows stores to create proximity based networks that can communicate with consumer smartphones. With location information of each shopper within the a store, it will be possible for retail locations to notify the consumer of special offers or to perhaps load up a loyalty card. Because iBeacon uses bluetooth positioning to narrow down your location instead of GPS, it can be a lot more accurate when used indoors. Continue reading “Qualcomm spins off location aware business into separate entity”
Qualcomm’s quarterly report shows reducing revenue and hence shares tumble
Qualcomm had posted its quarterly results on Wednesday and it wasn’t something that the company would have been happy with. Qualcomm had posted its first drop in revenue since June 2010. The shift of the smartphone market from the developed countries to developing countries seems to be the main cause for this.
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Testing 4G LTE on LG G2 LTE powered by Snapdragon 800 processor
Last month, LG had announced the LTE variant of their popular G2 smartphone. While they had a demo of the device, it was mainly for the press and media. Now Qualcomm and LG have set up an LTE Experience Zone for the public in Bangalore.
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Qualcomm acquires a big patent portfolio from HP
In a recent move by Qualcomm to gain advantage in the smartphone market, it acquired patents of Palm Inc and iPaq smartphone among the other patents from HP. The total number of patents involved in the acquisition include 1,400 granted patents and pending patent applications from the United States and about 1,000 granted patents and pending patent applications from other countries that include China, England, Germany, Japan and South Korea. However, there was no word on the price that Qualcomm gave for the patents.
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Steve Mollenkopf to be the next Qualcomm CEO
Qualcomm today announced that Steve Mollenkopf will be the next CEO of Qualcomm. Mollenkopf is currently employed as the Chief Operating Officer at the company. The announcement comes at an interesting time when Microsoft is said to have been pursuing Mollenkopf as a potential successor to Steve Ballmer. He would have joined an interesting line up of potential successors to the Microsoft throne including Ford CEO Alan Mulally, VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger and Microsoft’s own Head of Business Development, Satya Nadella. The timing of the announcement hence doesn’t seem like a coincidence. Continue reading “Steve Mollenkopf to be the next Qualcomm CEO”
Intel to make 64 bit ARM chips starting next year
Intel is gearing up to start making 64 bit ARM chips starting next year. Before you jump to conclusions, do know that Intel is planning to fabricate 64 bit ARM chips for its partner Altera, signaling a huge wave of change for the company. It is very well known that Intel is struggling in its mobile business, only recently making strides with the Clovertrail and Baytrail SoCs, and they are all based on the x86 architecture. Intel does not only make its own chips, it does fabrication for other companies too, like Altera for example. The current market leader for ARM fabrication is undoubtedly TSMC, which does fabrication for most companies from Nvidia to Qualcomm. So, in perfect sense, Intel is now a competitor to TSMC rather than Qualcomm or Nvidia.
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Qualcomm introduces Zeroth, Brain-inspired Neural Processing Units
The leader in smartphone chipsets, Qualcomm, is once again thinking ahead of the curve with its new project termed Zeroth. The new processor architecture is inspired by brains and is modeled on real life neurons. Zeroth is capable of learning and adapting based on feedback. This is very similar to how an actual human interprets and reacts.
In its demo video, Qualcomm shows how a robot built around the Zeroth processor adapts to its environment. It displays adaptive behavior in response to real life feedback instead of falling back on pre-coded decision parameters. According to Qualcomm, the technology has already advanced to allow for other companies to develop applications making use of its capabilities. Devices based on Zeroth will be able to see and process data like humans do. This has been achieved by creating mathematical models that accurately characterize biological neuron behavior when transmitting or receiving information. Spiking neural networks encode and transmit data efficiently for gathering environmental information and then processing, fusing them together. Continue reading “Qualcomm introduces Zeroth, Brain-inspired Neural Processing Units”