GE (General Electric) has announced that it will be partnering with Apple and Qualcomm to breathe new life into its lighting division. The partnerships are exclusive and while GE is a partner to both, there will be no relation between Apple and Qualcomm.
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Qualcomm has announced DragonBoard 410c, a credit card-sized low-cost development board design based on the 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor for developers, makers and OEMs. This will support rapid software development and prototyping for commercializing new inventions and products and it is the world’s first high performance, 64-bit capable, low cost ARM based platforms, says the company. Continue reading “Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c, a tiny low-cost development board announced”
Cyanogen Inc. and Qualcomm have announced a new partnership at the Mobile World Congress. Cyanogen Operating System will run on certain Qualcomm Snapdragon processors on upcoming Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD). This Cyanogen OS release will be based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Cyanogen OS to power Qualcomm reference devices”
Qualcomm has announced its new Zeroth Platform at the MWC 2015. It is optimized for premium mobile devices based on Snapdragon 820 processor. It uses custom 64-bit CPU architecture in their own ARMv8-based Qualcomm Kryo CPU. It will be based on FinFET process node, but currently it is not clear if it will be based on 16nm or 14nm process. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and Zeroth Platform announced”
Korean operator KT has announced that it has partnered with Samsung and Qualcomm to showcase world’s first LTE-H (HetNet) technology at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona next week. LTE-H merges existing 150Mbps LTE-A and 450Mbps GiGA WiFi, offering top speed of 600Mbps. Continue reading “KT, Samsung and Qualcomm join to demo 600Mbps LTE-H tech at MWC 2015”
Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 chipsets in their Snapdragon 600 and 400 lineup. All these chips have LTE support,including Global Mode RF360 support. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 620 is an octa-core chip with 4 ARM Cortex A72 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex A53 and CPUs, and the Snapdragon 618 is a hexa-core chip with 2 ARM Cortex A72 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex A53 and CPUs. Both the Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 and 415 are octa-core chips with 8 ARM Cortex A53 64-bit CPUs. Both these have Adreno 405 GPU. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 SoCs with LTE announced”
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC was announced back in April last year. We had seen some devices such as LG G Flex 2 and Xiaomi Mi Note Pro with the Snapdragon SoC. Today Qualcomm has announced that the Snapdragon 810 will power devices that will launch in coming weeks and months. Several partners such as Motorola Mobility, Sony Mobile, OPPO, Microsoft, LG and Xiaomi have praised Qualcomm. Continue reading “Snapdragon 810 to power new devices releasing in coming weeks and months: Qualcomm”
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 has announced its new Gobi 9×45 fifth-generation Category 10 LTE cellular multimode modem that supports global Carrier Aggregation (CA) for download speeds of up to 450 Mbps, upload speeds of up to 100Mbps, and CA across the TDD and FDD spectrum, compared to 300Mbps download speeds in the 9×25, 9×30 and 9×35 Gobi modems. It is based on the second-generation 20nm technology node and supports up to 60 MHz 3x CA in the downlink and up to 40 MHz 2x CA in the uplink. Continue reading “Qualcomm Gobi 9×45 LTE Multimode Modem announced, offers download speed of up to 450Mbps”
Qualcomm has announced two new processor in the Snapdragon 200 series. The Snapdragon 210, the company’s latest quad-core processor has multimode 3G/4G LTE Advanced and LTE Dual SIM aimed at entry-level smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon 208 dual-core processor has multimode 3G and can supports entry-level devices with displays up to qHD resolution. Both these have ARM Cortex A7 CPUs, based on 28nm LP process and have Adreno 304 GPU. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 quad-core and Snapdragon 208 dual-core processors announced”
You might have heard about Internet.org project, which is a global cooperation between technology leaders, non-profits, local communities and experts who are dedicated to making internet access available to the two thirds of the world, not yet connected. Continue reading “Qualcomm teams up with Facebook in an attempt to connect rural India to internet”
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 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 introduced its Vuforia Augmented reality technology few years back and demoed some applications based on it. The Qualcomm Vuforia would get a new Smart Terrain feature with Vuforia 3.0 SDK, a 3D reconstruction capability. The Vuforia object recognition technology would also be available soon to select developers in a beta program. Continue reading “Qualcomm Vuforia gets Smart Terrain vision, demoed in new mobile app”
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”
