Articles tagged "Qualcomm"

Honor plans to attend the Mobile World Congress where it will announce the global launch of a Magic phone – the Honor Magic V, perhaps? The company’s first foldable is one of the more interesting devices to be unveiled recently. Qualcomm’s Weibo...

The top-tier SoCs from MediaTek, Qualcomm and Samsung are already official, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 already being powering some phones out in the wild, but we are yet to see how the other two perform in real life. Now we have some preliminary...

As physical space inside electronics becomes more scarce manufacturers are looking for new ways to implement core functions in more efficient ways. A new iSIM (integrated SIM) standard is on its way as Vodafone, Qualcomm and French-based...

Counterpoint Research posted its quarterly analysis on the smartphone SoC shipments. The data showed Mediatek increasing its lead over Qualcomm in the July-September 2021 period, while Unisoc was another big winner, reaching double digit market...

Apple's 15 Bionic launched in September with the iPhone 13 family as it usually does but we are yet to see Qualcomm's competing solution, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Early benchmark results are now out and they suggest that the hype around the SoC's new...

Qualcomm announced that its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC is manufactured in Samsung's 4nm foundries but some production issues are forcing Qualcomm to shift part of the production to TSMC. According to industry's inside sources, Qualcomm...

AnTuTu's Android power rankings for November are out and unsurprisingly, the high end is all Snapdragon 888 Plus' with a few vanilla 888 sprinkled in. The statistics are taken from November 1 until the 30 and only phones to have completed more than...

Yesterday was all about the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, today Qualcomm is focusing on other platforms. Starting with Windows-on-ARM laptops and two new chipsets for them – one flagship and one for affordable devices that nevertheless need 5G...

All the best gaming smartphones use a Snapdragon chipset, says Qualcomm, but the company has identified a related market that currently doesn’t have a dedicated chip line – handheld game consoles, devices like the Nintendo Switch, which sit between...

On Tuesday, Qualcomm officially announced its next chipset. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the chip maker’s first 4nm chipset for smartphones and Motorola has confirmed that the Edge X30 will be its first flagship with the new SoC. Motorola...

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 brings notable improvements in performance and power efficiency for the CPU and GPU. But the camera hardware inside the chip also received major upgrades, so much so that Qualcomm is launching a separate brand for...

Qualcomm unveiled its next-generation chipset for flagship Android devices and it brings improvements across the board. In a way, it is a clean break from previous designs as it switches over to the new ARMv9 instruction set and a new naming scheme....

Qualcomm is expected to announce its upcoming high-performance flagship chipset next week during Tech Summit. Meanwhile, MediaTek announced the Dimensity 9000 last week - the first smartphone chipset built on the 4nm process. According to reports...

What’s this now – a Snapdragon 8Gx Gen 1? A logo for a new Qualcomm chip was spotted in a staging site for the company by @Za_Raczke just days before the big announcement. The title of the page is “Testing icon” and the icon in question sits...

Although MediaTek beat Qualcomm to the punch and announced its flagship 4nm Dimensity 9000 SoC way before its competitor, Snapdragon 8 Gen1-powered devices will hit the market earlier than MediaTek's offerings. According to a tipster on...

The next-generation Android flagships will post scores of over 1 million points in AnTuTu – a result coming from the soon to be unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset seems to have achieved just such a score. The result was spotted by Weibo blogger...

A new report arises from XDA-Developers that Microsoft and Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal to only officially only support Windows on ARM on Qualcomm-powered devices. Given the collaboration that the two companies invested to make Windows on ARM...

Ahead of its Snapdragon Tech Summit on November 30, today Qualcomm has announced some changes to its branding strategy for mobile SoCs (which it calls "platforms"), and also the fact that there are now over 2 billion Snapdragon devices in use across...

Qualcomm is bringing a new flagship chipset on November 30, and according to some reports, it will be named Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Leakster Digital Chat Station claimed on his Weibo page that some phones with the new SoC will be able to offer 150W fast...

Qualcomm had a pretty good naming scheme for its chipsets until a couple of years ago when its ever expanding lineup started to overlap making it hard to tell how two chipsets compare by their names. It now appears that the company is planning on...