Qualcomm has announced the appointment of Sunil Lalvani as India head. He will replace Avneesh Agrawal who was senior vice president and president of Qualcomm India and South Asia.
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Qualcomm to slash 15% workforce, outlines restructuring plan
Qualcomm has announced that it reported $1.2 billion in net income during the third fiscal quarter of 2015, down from $2.2 billion a year ago. The company also said that it is reducing its workforce by 15%.
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Qualcomm Snapragon 810-powered Project Tango smartphone coming in Q3 2015
At the Google I/O 2015 yesterday, Google announced its partnership with Qualcomm for its next generation Project Tango smartphone development platform. Project Tango combines the camera, gyroscope, and accelerometer to estimate six degree of freedom motion tracking, providing developers the ability to track 3D motion of a device while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. We still don’t have the complete specifications of the smartphone. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapragon 810-powered Project Tango smartphone coming in Q3 2015”
NTT Docomo becomes the first operator to adopt Qualcomm Snapdragon Sense ID Biometrics Platform
Qualcomm has just announced that the Japanese company, NTT Docomo has become the first operator to adopt Qualcomm Snapdragon Sensor ID Biometrics Platform. The technology will be used for mobile biometric authentication service starting later this month in Japan.
Qualcomm and Daimler announce collaboration to bring connected car technology
Qualcomm has partnered with automaker Daimler to bring new connected car technology. The collaboration will be aimed at improving in car experiences by implementing 3G/4G connectivity, in-vehicle wireless charging and Qualcomm Halo WEVC (Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging) technology.
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Is Qualcomm preparing a deca-core (10-cores) Snapdragon 818 SoC?
According to latest report, Qualcomm is making its first 10-core CPU just like the MediaTek’s new deca-core Helio X20 series processor.
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GE partners with Apple and Qualcomm to provide smart lighting solutions
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 DragonBoard 410c, a tiny low-cost development board announced
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 OS to power Qualcomm reference devices
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 Snapdragon 820 processor and Zeroth Platform announced
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”
KT, Samsung and Qualcomm join to demo 600Mbps LTE-H tech at MWC 2015
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 Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 SoCs with LTE announced
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”
Snapdragon 810 to power new devices releasing in coming weeks and months: Qualcomm
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 hints at Snapdragon 800 smartphone for CES 2015
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 Gobi 9×45 LTE Multimode Modem announced, offers download speed of up to 450Mbps
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”