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Thursday 18 October 2018
Qualcomm extends Wi-Fi to 5G with 60GHz 802.11ay solutions
Qualcomm Technologies has announced a family of 60GHz Wi-Fi chipsets, the QCA64x8 and QCA64x1, delivering 10+ gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network speeds and wire-equivalent latency.
Thursday 23 August 2018
TSMC to start making Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in 4Q18, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will start fabricating Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon 800 series SoC chips in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a report...
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Smartphone AP with on-device AI gaining momentum
Smartphone applications processors (AP) with on-device artificial intelligence (AI) functionality grew almost three fold year-on-year in the first quarter of 2018, Strategy Analytics...
Tuesday 24 July 2018
Qualcomm delivers 5G NR mmWave and sub-6 GHz RF modules for mobile devices
Qualcomm has unveiled what the company claims is the world's first fully-integrated 5G NR millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-6 GHz RF modules for smartphones and other mobile devices...
Friday 22 June 2018
TSMC likely to make Qualcomm 7nm Snapdragon chips
Speculation has been circulating that Qualcomm will return to TSMC for 7nm. Industry sources believe that the foundry with its 7nm FinFET process node will win back its major contract...
Friday 15 June 2018
Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium launched in Taiwan
Sony Mobile Communications has launched its latest flagship smartphone, the Xperia XZ2 Premium, in the Taiwan market with the availability to begin in the second half of July. The...
Monday 11 June 2018
HiSilicon to launch Kirin 710 to take on Snapdragon 710
HiSilicon Technologies, a Huawei smartphone solution subsidiary, is reportedly to launch its new mid-tier solution, the Kirin 710, in July and, as suggested by its product name, is...
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform for Windows 10 PCs
At Computex, Qualcomm has announced at a joint effort with Samsung Electronics to integrate its Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform, featuring the Snapdragon X20 and Qualcomm AI...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Global 2017 smartphone AP market drops while growth resumes in tablet AP sector, says Strategy Analytics
The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...
Monday 2 April 2018
China smartphone vendors debut new models to tap high-end market
China smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi have lately launched their respective 2018 flagship devices boasting high price-performance ratios and multiple smart functions,...
Friday 23 March 2018
Galaxy S9+ materials cost US$43 more than previous versions, says IHS Markit
The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...
Wednesday 14 March 2018
New MediaTek AI chip to power upcoming Oppo, Meizu smartphones
MediaTek's recently-introduced Helio P60 mobile SoC that comes with AI capabilities has been adopted by Oppo and Meizu for their upcoming smartphone models, according to a report...
Friday 2 March 2018
High cost may dim initial prospects for 5G
With the imminent commercialization of 5G mobile technologies and services, mobile chipset suppliers, telecom operators and related supply chains will all face the initial incorporation...
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Unigroup Spreadtrum RDA sees fresh momentum
China-based Unigroup Spreadtrum RDA, a merger of IC designers Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics under Tsinghua Unigroup, is poised to perform better in the smartphone...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Digitimes Research: ARM-based models may dominate lower-end PC market
As Microsoft and Qualcomm jointly announced in early December that the first Windows 10 notebooks with ARM-based Snapdragon 835 processors will be officially launched in early 2018,...