We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a … Read more
Qualcomm is building on the promise of its 7x line to enable high-end features for mid-range mobile devices. The Snapdragon 732G mobile platform arrives as a successor to the Snapdragon 730G and it’s targeted at devices with gaming in mind. The big news is that this latest chip will arrive in a new Poco phone. Poco officially spun out of … Read more
There is nothing but good news on the AR front as the duel mobile platform giants Google and Apple improve their mobile AR SDKs. Apple went big with the introduction of ARKit 4 through its online WWDC 2020 conference this year. Of the two, Apple is also the most hardware dependent, which is as to be expected. This year WWDC … Read more
Snapdragon 768G designed for immersive gaming and 5G
In a specification free news announcement, Qualcomm has introduced a new Snapdragon SoC, the 768G. We have found out that the CPU has one core at 2.8 GHz, another at 2.4 GHz, plus six others running at 1.8 GHz. The GPU, however, will remain the same, an Adreno 620, although the clock has been increased to 750 MHz (from 625 … Read more
(Source: Marko C, Ljubljana) Qualcomm Technologies unveiled a new extended reality (XR) reference design headset based on the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company has been successful with its XR program and claims design wins for more than 30 headsets—including major brands such as Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HoloLens 2, and Vive Focus. Many, if not all, of the design … Read more
A back to the future Adventure-style game with video
Maya, an upcoming influencer has been found dead, and an obsessed detective suspects foul play. Her phone appears to be intentionally wiped, and her cause of death seems… unnatural. You are given her phone to conduct an unsanctioned police investigation, and piece together the mystery surrounding her death. Solve the case before whatever happened to Maya… happens again. And so … Read more
Pixelworks has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with the company to develop advanced display systems for smartphones, integrating the latest Pixelworks’ visual processor and software solutions. The companies anticipate the initial phone model from this collaboration to launch in the first half of 2020. Oppo’s current top of its line phone, the X series, has a 6.4-inch touchscreen, with a … Read more
Supporting both mmWave and sub-6 will bring superior 5G connectivity to global scale says Qualcomm about their Snapdragon 765. The platform integrates 5G connectivity with the Snapdragon X52 5G Modem-RF System which works in tandem with the 5th gen Qualcomm AI engine. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 7 Series in 2018, as a new line of processors, to bridge the … Read more
The company said a substantial number of smartphones will be sold next year that will support 5G, not just the high-end, low-volume devices currently on the market.
A group of enthusiasts is proposing a new set of graphics instructions designed for 3D graphics and media processing. These new instructions are built on the RISC-V base vector instruction set. They will add support for new data types that are graphics specific as layered extensions in the spirit of the core RISC-V ISA. Vectors, transcendental math, pixel, and textures … Read more
