Remember JP’s rules for AR: Don’t be ugly or obnoxious Don’t be expensive or heavy Don’t be proprietary nreal comes very close to meeting all three requirements. The glasses are lightweight, they are not intrinsically ugly or obnoxious, but are obnoxiously colorful probably for market attention—hopefully, that can be toned-down for people over 25. They are not too expensive … Read more
Is this the one that will go to market? Qualcomm has shown up at Computex with an always on, always connected light-weight Windows compatible clamshell notebook since 2016. And yet, it never seemed to make it to the market. HP built one and Acer built one and Qualcomm showed them at their analysts and press meetings, but they were hard … Read more
In late June this year, Qualcomm reported a record quarter, with overall revenue of $5.6 billion, Net income of $1.2 billion, and shipments of 220 million devices. While some of Qualcomm’s competitors in the semiconductor sector are growing at a faster rate than the reported 4 percent growth from the prior year, Qualcomm remains committed to inventing the future, developing … Read more
Qualcomm announced this week three new additions to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers: the Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429 mobile platforms. These platforms, says the company, are engineered to bring higher performance, better battery life, more efficient designs, impressive graphics and AI capabilities into the highest selling Snapdragon tiers. Snapdragon 632: Based on their market research and customer … Read more
If you thought the Snapdragon 845 was good, and tens of millions of people did (do), then you’re going to be blown away by the Snapdragon 850. It delivers more stuff like pixels, and compute, on less power than any other SoC in the world, and its probably going to hold that title for a while. Snapdragon will be used … Read more
XR1 is a next-generation platform introduced by the Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, at the AWE conference in Santa Clara, California, – last week. Qualcomm’s definition of XR XR1, says QCOM, offers mainstream users high-quality XR experiences while enabling OEMs to develop mainstream devices. The XR1 platform also has special optimizations for AR experiences with AI capabilities offering better … Read more
In cost cutting moves to appease Wall Street, Qualcomm has laid off a bunch of its GPU and vision team, and some high-profile members of the company have left the company because of it. The news will start leaking out this week. So far AMD has been the happy recipient of one of the team members. Others have also already … Read more
Through relationships with Samsung and TSMC, Qualcomm keeps its naming conventions consistent. The Snapdragon SoC from Qualcomm made its debut in 2007, the first being apply named, S1. Incrementing to S4 by 2012, the company added some zeros and introduced the Snapdragon 200 in 2013. The expansive and extensible flagship 800 series was also introduced in 2013. Smaller versions … Read more
10nm plus architectural improvements packs more performance in smaller package using less power Rumored since mid-year, Qualcomm has taken some of the wraps off its new flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 845, and although it won’t actually be available in phones till second half 2018, it will definitely be worth waiting for. The 845 is more than an upgrade or just … Read more
Qualcomm's quest to improve AI and XR leads to alliances with Baidu and NetEase Qualcomm’s second annual Snapdragon Tech Summit had three major parts, Qualcomm’s entry into PCs, a focus on its upcoming Snapdragon 845 with new products appearing early next year (see link), and the company’s expanding efforts in AI and XR for mobile. Qualcomm says its new 845 … Read more
It was a couple of years ago that Qualcomm and Microsoft threatened the status quo with the Always Connected PC, a true PC running Windows 10 on an Arm-based mobile phone processor with enough battery life to run for more than one day, and mobile wireless connectivity to always be connected to the Internet. Today, in Hawaii no less, Qualcomm … Read more
