After filing a $1 billion lawsuit against Qualcomm in the U.S. saying that Qualcomm has been charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with, Apple has filed a similar lawsuit against Qualcomm, this time at the Beijing Intellectual Property Court in China seeking 1 billion yuan ($145.32 million) in damages. Continue reading “Apple sues Qualcomm over iPhone modem licensing deals in China, seeks 1 billion yuan”
Apple has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Qualcomm saying that Qualcomm has been charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with. This comes days after Qualcomm was sued by US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for anti-competitive practices relating to maintain its monopoly in the supply of a key semiconductor device used in cell phones and other consumer products. Continue reading “Apple sues Qualcomm for $1 Billion over royalties, Qualcomm says Apple’s claims are baseless”
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm for anti-competitive practices relating to maintain its monopoly in the supply of a key semiconductor device used in cell phones and other consumer products.
Continue reading “Qualcomm sued in the US by FTC over anti-competitive practices”
Qualcomm has announced investment of USD 8.5 million for expansion of their design initiatives in India that will be dubbed as Qualcomm Design in India Program (QDIP). The company has unveiled two programs under this initiative. Continue reading “Qualcomm invests $8.5M to push design initiatives in India, Design in India Program announced”
Qualcomm today announced that it has appointed Larry Paulson as vice president and president of Qualcomm India. He will report directly to Jim Cathey, senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific and India. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategy, R&D, customer development, product marketing and technology creation. Continue reading “Larry Paulson appointed as Qualcomm VP and President of Qualcomm India”
Chipset maker Qualcomm in partnership with Volkswagen, today announced the integration of Qualcomm technologies in its upcoming Volkswagen AG vehicle at CES 2017. Continue reading “Qualcomm to power next generation Volkswagen vehicles with infotainment and telematics system”
Qualcomm Technologies today has introduced active noise cancelling (ANC) technology for its CSR8675 product platform, making it the world’s first Bluetooth audio system-on-chip (SoC) to integrate the technology. “This reduces the complexity and cost of adding active noise cancelling to headphones by eliminating the need for a separate ANC chip, helping manufacturers quickly deliver premium audio experiences in much smaller form factor designs,” said Qualcomm. Continue reading “Qualcomm introduces world’s first Bluetooth Audio SoC with integrated Active Noise Cancelling Technology”
Qualcomm today at the CES 2017 detailed its flagship Snapdragon 835 processor, first processor based on 10nm FinFET process technology. “It is 35% smaller and uses 25% less power than previous designs, and is engineered to deliver exceptionally long battery life, lifelike VR and AR experiences, cutting-edge camera capabilities and Gigabit Class download speeds,” said Qualcomm. It has multi-gigabit 802.11ad, and integrated
2×2 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MU-MIMO.
Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 detailed, Octa-Core Kryo 280 CPUs, Adreno 540 GPU, X16 LTE with up to 1Gbps download speeds”
Microsoft and Qualcomm just announced at the WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Community) event in Shenzhen, China that Windows 10 is coming to the next-generation of Snapdragon mobile processors, years after it failed to bring Windows to ARM chips in the form of Windows RT with Surface with Windows RT and Nokia Lumia 2520. Continue reading “Microsoft, Qualcomm partner to bring Windows 10 to next-gen Snapdragon processors”
Qualcomm today announced commercial sampling and conducted a live demonstration of Centriq 2400, which is the world’s first 10nm server processor. The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 series has up to 48-cores, is built on the 10nm FinFET process technology and features the Qualcomm Falkor CPU. “It has Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies’ custom ARMv8-compliant core, which is highly optimized to deliver both high performance and power efficiency, and designed to tackle the most common datacenter workloads,” said the company. Continue reading “Qualcomm Centriq 2400 is the world’s first 10nm server processor, has up to 48 cores”
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”
