Qualcomm announced its flagship Snapdragon 835 based on Samsung’s 10nm FinFET process last week. It did not reveal any details apart from support for Quick Charge 4.0 that, which supports 20% faster charging than Quick Charge 3.0. Now some specifications of the Snapdragon 835 along with a new Snapdragon 660 have surfaced in China. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and Snapdragon 660 specifications surface”
Qualcomm Technologies today announced its vulnerability rewards program designed to expand collaboration with invited white hat hackers who improve the security of the Qualcomm Snapdragon family of processors, LTE modems and related technologies. The program will be administered in collaboration with vulnerability coordination platform HackerOne, offering rewards of up to US$ 15,000 per vulnerability. Continue reading “Qualcomm launches bug bounty program, to offer rewards up to $15000”
Qualcomm has announced its new fast charging technology Quick Charge 4.0 along with the next generation Snapdragon 835 processor which it announced recently. Quick Charge 4.0 is up to 20 percent faster or 30 percent more efficient when compared to Quick Charge 3.0. Continue reading “Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 promises 5 hours of battery life with 5 minutes of charging”
Qualcomm has officially announced next-gen Snapdragon 835 flagship processor. The chipmaker has teamed up with Samsung to develop the new chip which is built on 10nm FinFET node that entered mass production in October. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 based on Samsung’s 10nm process announced, coming in 2017”
Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 SoC is said to support Quick Charge 4.0 with fast charging speeds of up to 28W, according to a latest report from Fudzilla. This will be Qualcomm’s most powerful fast charging solution till date. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 tipped to support Quick Charge 4.0”
Qualcomm has reported revenue for fourth financial quarter and year that ended September 25, 2016. It has reported revenue of $6.2 billion, which is up 13% compared to the same quarter last year and non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.28 for the quarter, beating the average analyst estimate of $1.22. Total revenue for the fiscal year is 23.6 billion, which is up 7% compared to last year. Operating income was 1.8 billion, up 58% YoY and net income was $1.6 billion, up to 51% YoY. Continue reading “Qualcomm revenue up 13% YoY, net income up 51% YoY in Q4 FY16, 211 million chips shipped”
Qualcomm has agreed to buy NXP Semiconductors for $110.00 per share ($47 billion) in cash. The chip maker intends to fund the transaction with cash on hand and new debt.
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Qualcomm has teamed up with Telstra, Ericsson, and NETGEAR, for world’s first Gigabit Class LTE mobile device and network. The device is the NETGEAR Mobile Router MR1100, which uses the Snapdragon X16 LTE modem designed to deliver Gigabit Class LTE connectivity as well as Qualcomm Wi-Fi solutions designed to achieve Gigabit Wi-Fi. Continue reading “Qualcomm announces first gigabit class LTE mobile device and network”
Qualcomm unveiled X50 5G modem at 2016 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong. The X50 5G modem supports download speeds of up to 5Gbps which is 5x faster than the fastest 4G modem. It uilizes wide bandwidths available in the 28 GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) band combined with advanced signal processing technologies.
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Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 SoCs at the Qualcomm 2016 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong. The Snapdragon 653 is the successor of Snapdragon 652 offering 10% improved performance compared to the predecessor, Snapdragon 626 is the successor of Snapdragon 625, offering 10% improved performance compared to the predecessor and the Snapdragon 427 is new processor in the 400 series, which is an upgrade to Snapdragon 425. All these have Integrated Snapdragon X9 LTE modem for 50% faster upload speeds than the X8 LTE, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology and Dual camera support. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 SoCs with X9 LTE modem, Quick Charge 3.0 support announced”
Sunil Lalvani, has stepped down as VP and President of Qualcomm India. He was appointed as India head in July last year. Continue reading “Sunil Lalvani quits as VP and President Qualcomm India”
Qualcomm has announced two new processors – Snapdragon 600E and Snapdragon 410E for Internet of Things (IoT). Both the chips are aimed for embedded applications in digital signage, set-top-boxes, medical imaging, point of sale systems, industrial robotics, and other Internet of Things (IoT) related applications.
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Qualcomm has announced Qualcomm Clear Sight, its new dual camera technology powered by Qualcomm Spectra ISP (Image Signal Processor). “This technology is designed to mimic the attributes of the human eye and will give your photos improved dynamic range, sharpness, and less noise in low light,” says Qualcomm. Continue reading “Qualcomm Clear Sight dual camera tech announced”
Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 821, the company’s latest high-end processor in the Snapdragon 800 series last month. Qualcomm already said that the Snapdragon 821 will be 10% faster than its current flagship Snapdragon 820 SoC. Today it has detailed the clocked speed of its CPU cores GPU and more. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 detailed, comes with Dual PDAF”
Qualcomm has signed a 3G/4G China Patent License Agreement with vivo. Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted vivo a royalty-bearing patent license to develop, manufacture and sell 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 and 4G LTE (including “3-mode” GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) complete devices for use in China. Continue reading “Qualcomm signs 3G/4G China Patent License Agreement with vivo”
