Qualcomm

Arm's royalty revenues boom, execs talk up hopes for AI bonanza

Q2 climbs 23% on Armv9 adoption, but licensing dips

Systems07 Nov 2024 | 2

Arm to Qualcomm: See you in court? Oh yes, please

Doesn't quite confirm eight-week license cancellation deadline, but does strap on the gloves

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 14

Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses

Qualcomm brands ploy as 'unfounded' cash grab

Legal23 Oct 2024 | 48

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones

New flagship SoC drops Arm and grows its own legs with Oryon

Personal Tech22 Oct 2024 | 9

As Arm rivals cook up custom silicon, Mediatek sticks to tried-and-true Cortex recipe

Interview Exec Chris Bergey tells us what the chip designer is doing to stay competitive

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 5

Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds

Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg

Systems17 Oct 2024 | 5

Qualcomm urges device makers to push patches after 'targeted' exploitation

Given Amnesty's involvement, it's a safe bet spyware is in play

Patches08 Oct 2024 |

If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy

Personal Tech07 Oct 2024 | 98

Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel

Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?

Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21

Intel: Trouble draws private investors like vultures to a wounded giant

Comment Potential $5B cash injection from Apollo as Qualcomm sniffs around

Systems23 Sep 2024 | 5

There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?

Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky

Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 13

Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more

Chipzilla hasn't collapsed yet but the vultures are circling

Systems06 Sep 2024 | 2

Qualcomm guns for Intel, AMD with cheaper 8-core X chips

It’s set to slice up the AI PC competition at $700-$900

Systems04 Sep 2024 | 5

Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October

Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious

Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 3

Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset

Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets

Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 |

Qualcomm sues Chinese handset-maker in India to defend African market

There's a lot of territory to cover here

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 6

AMD spills the beans on Zen 5's 16% IPC gains

Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation

Systems15 Jul 2024 | 13

Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers

Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems

Personal Tech08 Jul 2024 | 31

Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M in all-cash deal to settle licensing suit

Judge asked to green-light payout to shareholders over SEP license and bundling claims

Personal Tech19 Jun 2024 | 4

Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview

Wider release coming real soon – promise – after the Windows faithful give it a thrashing

OSes14 Jun 2024 | 52

Rivals and legal action cast shadows over Windows on Arm market

Player MediaTek: Ready

Personal Tech12 Jun 2024 | 18

AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?

Comment As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.'

AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 18

Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia

Computex Intel boss reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics

Systems04 Jun 2024 | 2

Intel details how Lunar Lake PC chips deliver 120 TOPS

Computex A bigger NPU, faster graphics core in GPU, and on-package memory will do that to a chip

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 2

Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years

Computex That's probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts

Personal Tech03 Jun 2024 | 17

Qualcomm wants to target all ‘all form factors’ with SoCs that power Copilot+ PCs

Computex As Arm CEO declares his architecture is now the de facto Windows standard

Personal Tech03 Jun 2024 | 4

Intel, AMD take a back seat as Qualcomm takes center stage in Microsoft's AI PC push

Build Plus: Windows set for ML-powered always-watching-you Recall feature

Personal Tech21 May 2024 | 22

Among AI infrastructure hopefuls, Qualcomm has become an unlikely ally

Analysis The enemy of my enemy is my best friend

Systems19 May 2024 | 4

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs

One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins

Personal Tech15 May 2024 | 8

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses

Updated Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off

Systems08 May 2024 | 4

Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices

Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit

Systems09 Apr 2024 |

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3

The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU

Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4

Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform

Boosted on-device generative AI's not just for the flagship smartphone kids

Systems21 Mar 2024 | 4

Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips

Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips

Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11

Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow

MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts?

Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2

Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch

Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars

Personal Tech01 Feb 2024 | 10

Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats

So much for isolation

Research17 Jan 2024 | 1

Qualcomm CEO's pay jumps 395% in slow year for phone chips

C-suite exec gets 223 staffers' worth of pay after cyclical headwinds dampen consumer demand for kit

Systems09 Jan 2024 | 6

Apple's quest for modem independence from Qualcomm is going nowhere fast

iPhones could still be running Snapdragons into 2026

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 26

Qualcomm promises 'premium performance' in Gen 3 Snapdragon 7 phone chips

Higher end SoCs for midrange mobes as Honor and Vivo sink it into their next devices

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 6

Qualcomm and Iridium's satellite link-up loses signal

Updated Tech was proven, but nobody wanted to put it in their Snapdragon devices

Personal Tech10 Nov 2023 | 9

Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis

Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins

Systems02 Nov 2023 | 7

Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 3

Intel's PC chip ship is sinking with Arm-ada on the horizon

Opinion That's what happens when you completely misread the market

Systems30 Oct 2023 | 84

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

Opinion History suggests Arm’s place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant'

Systems28 Oct 2023 | 168

Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses 'pretty insignificant' Arm PC challenge

Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps

Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 18

Micron, SK-Hynix's shipping bandwidth-boosting LPDDR5 for on-device AI

So long as you don’t mind that it's soldered down

Systems26 Oct 2023 |

Qualcomm claims its X Elite PC parts can go toe-to-toe with Apple, Intel

Oh, and there's a new Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chip bristling with AI potential

Systems24 Oct 2023 | 6

Sony, Honda tease EV that aims to be a lounge on wheels

Video 'Afeela' packs Qualcomm kit, screens galore, runs Android and will have an app ecosystem

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 37

Google and Qualcomm to bring RISC-V to the wrist in next-gen wearable platform

Wear OS is basically Android, so this effort may do some heavy lifting to evade Arm SoCs in future phones

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 3

Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December

Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas

Systems13 Oct 2023 | 6

The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not

Column 46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6

Networks25 Sep 2023 | 139

EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024

Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd ... but no pricing yet

Networks21 Sep 2023 | 20

Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze

Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order

Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11

Tech CEO admits role in tricking Qualcomm into $150M takeover

Abreezio? Maybe not, but it was a plea deal

Security15 Aug 2023 | 3