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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 678 for entertainment experiences

Qualcomm Technologies just announced its Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform, a follow-on to the Snapdragon 675 introduced in 2018. The new chip, says Qualcomm, will deliver overall performance upgrades, high-speed connections for sophisticated photo and video capture, and immersive entertainment experiences. Snapdragon 678, says Qualcomm, offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: Qualcomm Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up … Read more

Online gaming has been coming; has it arrived?

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 announces Snapdragon 732G for high-end mobile gaming

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

Catching up with AR

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

Qualcomm adds a G to the Snapdragon 765

Snapdragon 768G designed for immersive gaming and 5G

Qualcomm upgrades the Snapdragon 765 to a G

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

Qualcomm’s XR2 5G headset reference design

(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

Find Maya’s kilers in Simulacra 2

A back to the future Adventure-style game with video

Find Maya’s kilers in Simulacra 2

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 to elevate OPPO’s display quality in next-generation smartphones

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

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 — 5G for the masses

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

Qualcomm and 5G

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.