Broadcom back in November has proposed an offer to acquire Qualcomm, and the chipset maker rejected the offer saying that the proposal dramatically undervalues Qualcomm and comes with significant regulatory uncertainty. However, Broadcom today has yet again proposed an updated offer at a higher $121 billion and the all outstanding shares of Qualcomm for $60.00 per share in cash and $22.00 per share in Broadcom stock. Continue reading “Broadcom yet again bids to acquire Qualcomm at higher price”
Qualcomm today announced that the company and Samsung Electronics have signed a multi-year strategic relationship agreement over various technology areas and across a range of mobile devices. This agreement will also expand the companies relationship as technology partners. Continue reading “Qualcomm and Samsung expand multi-year cross-license agreement”
At the Qualcomm, China Tech Day event in Beijing, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Vivo, OPPO have shown interest in Qualcomm to support the 5G initiative named as “5G Pioneer” in China and introduce 5G New Radio (NR) standard-compliant commercial devices expected as early as 2019. ZTE Corporation and Wingtech Technology have also extended their support. Continue reading “Qualcomm inks $2 billion sales MOUs with Lenovo, Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO”
Update: Qualcomm has confirmed it has received a decision from the European Commission (EC) relating to an expired agreement between Qualcomm and Apple Inc., which was in effect from 2011 through 2016, for the pricing of modem chips. Qualcomm said that it strongly disagrees with the decision and will immediately appeal it to the General Court of the European Union. It also said that EC decision does not relate to Qualcomm’s licensing business and has no impact on ongoing operations. Continue reading “Qualcomm hit with 997 million euro fine by the EU over Apple mobile chip deals”
Lenovo has partnered with Qualcomm and Microsoft to launch a Snapdragon powered Always Connected PC – Miix 630 at CES 2018. HP and Asus launched their products in December last year at the Snapdragon Summit. I got my hands on the Miix 630 2-1 detachable and it is a pretty nice effort by Lenovo.
Qualcomm at the CES 2018 announced that Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform now helps manufacturers to reduce development time of smart speakers featuring Cortana, Google Assistant as well as Google Services and Alexa Voice Service (AVS).
Qualcomm at the CES 2018 introduced Low Power Bluetooth SoC QCC5100 series with support for third-party Voice Assistant Services, Qualcomm TrueWireless Stereo, Qualcomm aptX HD audio and Integrated Hybrid ANC for wireless earbuds, hearables and headsets. Qualcomm also said that it reduces power consumption by up to 65% for both voice calls and music streaming, compared to previous single-chip Bluetooth audio solutions. Continue reading “Qualcomm introduces QCC5100 Bluetooth Audio SoC series with Hybrid ANC, voice assistant support”
Qualcomm today announced two Home Hub platforms supporting Google’s Android Things; the SDA624 and SDA212 SoCs. The chips are designed with an aim to offer developers and OEMs a cost-effective way to develop home hubs featuring Google services such as the Google Assistant. Continue reading “Qualcomm introduces new Home Hub platforms supporting Google’s Android Things”
Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon 660 and Snapdragon 630 high-end Mobile Platforms back in May this year, which is being used in most top-end and mid-rage phones. Now specifications of their successors – Snapdragon 670 and Snapdragon 640 have surfaced in China. According to the rumors, Qualcomm will finally move to 10nm LPP processor technology for its high-end “Snapdragon 600” series with the Snapdragon 670, but it will stick to 14nm LPP tech for the mid-range Snapdragon 640 SoC.
Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 and Snapdragon 640 specifications surface”
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)”
