Popular chipset maker Qualcomm has received permission to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in California in its efforts to enter the self-driving car market. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has issued the permit authorizing testing for one vehicle and three drivers. Continue reading “Qualcomm gets permission to test self-driving cars in California”
Earlier this month, after being rejected for a proposal to acquire Qualcomm, Broadcom nominated a slate of 11 members for the director’s role at Qualcomm’s 2018 Annual Meeting to replace the Qualcomm’s existing board of directors. However, Qualcomm today announced that it has rejected director nominees assembled by Broadcom. Continue reading “Qualcomm rejects Broadcomm’s board of director nominees”
BlackBerry has partnered with Qualcomm to develop and produce automotive platforms for the next generation of connected vehicles. As a part of this non-exclusive deal, both the companies will combinedly develop and optimize select Qualcomm Technologies’ hardware platforms for Next-generation Vehicles. Continue reading “BlackBerry and Qualcomm team up to develop automotive platforms for next-gen connected vehicles”
At the second annual Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm has announced a strategic partnership with Baidu to Support an Optimized On-Device AI for Baidu’s DuerOS for Snapdragon including the latest Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform. Continue reading “Baidu, Qualcomm partner to optimize DuerOS conversational AI system for Snapdragon”
Qualcomm at its second annual summit has showcased its Aqstic Hi-Fi DAC; AQT1000 as headphone jack is slowly becoming obsolete. The Qualcomm-made audio DAC supports playback of formats at up to 384KHz and 32 bits, including the obscure DSD format. Earlier this year it introduced Aqstic USB-C Headset Code WHS9420, single chip USB audio SoC platforms designed specifically for USB-C connected audio devices. Continue reading “Qualcomm introduces USB-C Aqstic Hi-Fi audio DAC AQT1000”
Qualcomm and MediaTek have announced support for the Android Oreo (Go edition) which officially introduced at an event in India earlier this week for low-cost Android devices that have 512MB to 1GB of RAM. Google at the Google For India 2017 event earlier this week said that Smartphones running Android Oreo (Go edition) will be available early 2018. Continue reading “Qualcomm and MediaTek announce support for Android Oreo (Go edition)”
After being rejected for a proposal to acquire Qualcomm, Broadcom has now nominated a slate of 11 candidates for Election at Qualcomm’s 2018 Annual Meeting to replace the Qualcomm’s existing board of directors and propose certain other matters for the consideration. Both Broadcom and Qualcomm have confirmed the new development. Continue reading “Broadcom seeks to replace Qualcomm’s board as it escalates fight over its proposed takeover bid”
Right after Apple filed a countersuit against Qualcomm on Wednesday, the San Diego based chipset maker has fired back by filing three new patent infringement lawsuits against Apple saying there were 16 more of its patents that Apple was using in its iPhones. Continue reading “Qualcomm files new lawsuit against Apple over iPhone X, seeks partial ban in the US”
Last week Broadcom made an offer to acquire Qualcomm at $130 Billion, which is $70 per share which consist of $60.00 in cash and $10.00 per share in Broadcom shares. Qualcomm today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal by Broadcom.
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With a plenty of room for improvement in LTE, at an event for media and analysts in the San Jose Convention Center, Qualcomm and T-Mobile have demonstrated the speed and power of Gigabit Class LTE on T-Mobile’s network with flagship smartphones powered by Snapdragon Gigabit LTE modems.
Continue reading “Qualcomm and T-Mobile showcase Gigabit Class LTE, expands to 430 markets”
Qualcomm has officially announced the commercial shipment of its newest 10 nanometer server processor series – the Centriq 2400 processor family at its press conference in San Jose, California. The latest processor designed for data centers is Arm based and is said to offer high performance for cloud workloads. Continue reading “Qualcomm announces commercial shipment of Centriq 2400 – the world’s first 10nm server processor”
Broadcom has finally made an offer to acquire Qualcomm at $130 Billion, which is $70 per share which consist of $60.00 in cash and $10.00 per share in Broadcom shares just as reported. Broadcom’s offer is almost 28% premium over the closing price of the Qualcomm common stock’s closing price on Nov. 2, 2017.
Continue reading “Broadcom proposes to acquire Qualcomm valued at $130 Billion”
Broadcom is exploring options to purchase chipset maker Qualcomm according to the sources close to the matter, reports Bloomberg and Reuters. The company is considering on bidding more than $100 billion in what could be the biggest ever takeover of a chipmaker.
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Qualcomm has sued Apple yet again, and this time the popular chipset maker has accused Apple of breaching the contract of use of the software that is needed to make the chipset work with other parts of mobile phones and communicate with networks.
Continue reading “Qualcomm sues Apple over contract breach of Phone-Chip Software”
Apple and Qualcomm dispute continue to escalate; A new report from The Wall Street Journal says that the Cupertino giant will drop Qualcomm components and move to Intel or possibly MediaTek for next year’s iPhones and iPads.
Continue reading “Apple might drop Qualcomm modem in next-gen iPhones and iPads”
