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
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, 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 introduces multiple products including displays, tablets, and a Qualcomm based laptop
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
Pixelworks has been building video co-processors and offering IP solutions for mobile devices for some time now. The company is an acknowledged leader in the field and knows how to squeeze zillions of colors out without draining the battery (it’s a black art that seems to defy the laws of physics). One of Pixelworks’ customers is Vivo, a Chinese smartphone … Read more
Shut down but don’t shut up
I remember back oh those many years ago when the sky was peaceful and calm before the dragons came. We thought we were done with them, that they had all been put in the dungeons. But then in 2007 Snappy was born in San Diego—dragons like warm climates. Treating the adorable little creature like a lab rat they gave him a … Read more
UK-based GPU designer Imagination Technologies has been in the news of late over a riff with its owner Canyon Bridge Partners, a Chinese government-backed VC firm that bought Imagination in 2017. The disagreement, which caused the company’s noted CEO to resign, had to do with the Canyon Bridge Partners trying to reconstitute the BOD with the goal of moving the … 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
Courtesy of Jodi Meyer Google and its suppliers are beneficiaries of the Coronavirus crisis as schools all over the US buy Chromebooks for low-income families to enable homeschooling. In Marin, California alone, 1,500 Chromebooks were bought. NYC with a school population of 1.2 million is said to have purchased 30k, and LA is buying 10k. Aside from RAM and … Read more
