Qualcomm Q1 2023 financial results
Continued softness in handset sales cause Q1 revenue decline by 17%, net income down 33% Y-Y.
Qualcomm Q1 2023 financial results
Continued softness in handset sales cause Q1 revenue decline by 17%, net income down 33% Y-Y.
Aokzoe brings handheld to market
Joins an increasing population of AMD-based handhelds.
HP might exit the VR market, but Sony is holding on
2023 is seeing some disruption in the VR market. Rumor has it that HP will be exiting the VR market, and Sony had to change strategies after disappointing PS VR2 pre-orders.
Qualcomm Q4 2022 financial results
Softness in handset sales has caused Q4 revenue to decline by 11.6% and net income to drop 14.2% Y-Y.
Real-time ray tracing on a smartphone—really?
Qualcomm says they can, and will ship it next year.
Meta partners with Qualcomm in a multi-generational VR agreement
The Meta Quest 2 is powered by Qualcomm’s chipsets. The partnership between the two companies is going to continue for the next few Meta product generations. (Source: Qualcomm) Meta and Qualcomm have just announced a multi-year agreement to collaborate on virtual reality (VR) technologies for the next generations of Meta’s products. The two companies have a long history of working … Read more
Qualcomm handheld game machine—Snapdragon G
Qualcomm’s handheld, game console, reference design. (Source: Jon Peddie) In December 2021, Qualcomm announced a handheld game console reference design. Qualcomm has had a long and effective history of developing reference designs to illustrate how their SoCs could be successfully employed. Often, some OEMs would use the entire design either because they had limited design resources, time, or because … Read more
Qualcomm takes on the ARM CPU challenge
When Qualcomm introduced its PC clone that could run Windows and apps, people got curious. Was it just a Chromebook competitor or was there something new going on? Intel tried it with PDAs back in 1999 with StrongARM, but Microsoft didn’t get it then and made a half-hearted offering of a stripped-down OS, not the real Windows, and people weren’t … Read more
Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
HP makes working at home comfortable
HP introduces multiple products including displays, tablets, and a Qualcomm based laptop
HP makes working at home comfortable
According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations and other data, we estimate the average cost for a tech worker’s space and support facilities in an office is about $15,500 a year.¹ If you could have your employees and contractors work at home, and all you had to do was outfit them with a new computer every three or four years for $500 a … Read more