News tagged ‘qualcomm’
Thursday, 21 Feb 2013
Samsung to Switch to Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 for Galaxy S IV?
Samsung has been now rumored to choose to rely on a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor as opposed to its own Exynos 5 Octa processor for its upcoming Galaxy S IV phone apparently due to "power consumption issues and temperature problems" in the latter.
Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013
AMD Recruits Former Apple and Qualcomm Senior Engineers
AMD may be trying to expand beyond PC chips with the hiring of two senior engineers, Charlie Matar, previously senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, and Wayne Meretsky, previously technical lead for OS X at Apple.
Friday, 11 Jan 2013
STE Exhibits NovaThor L8580 Quad-Core Processor at CES 2013
ST-Ericsson (STE) has unveiled its latest quad-core processor, the NovaThor L8580. It can be clocked up to 2.5GHz and consumes 50% less power than its competitors.
Tuesday, 8 Jan 2013
Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon Mobile Processors, Snapdragon 800 & 600 (Updated)
Qualcomm has announced its answers to NVIDIA's next-gen Tegra 4 processor, the quad-core Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors. Both processors will be available in commercial devices from mid-year and Q2 2013 respectively.
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012
HTC Collaborates with ST-Ericsson on CPU for Entry Level Smartphones
HTC is said to have signed a memorandum of cooperation with ST-Ericsson to co-develop its own CPU for entry level smartphones. The chipset will start shipping in new devices next year.
Thursday, 29 Mar 2012
Qualcomm Deepens Collaboration with Singapore
Qualcomm today announced its plans to establish an integrated circuit (IC) design and engineering R&D Center in Singapore. In addition, it is working with a local school and Microsoft on the WE Learn mobile education project, which uses 3G smartphones to build a 21st century classroom experience.
Thursday, 12 Jan 2012
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 to Power Windows 8 Tablet and Lenovo Smart TV
Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors are moving beyond the Android smartphone and tablet space, powering a new wave of Windows 8 tablet and smart TVs starting with Lenovo's K91 SmartTV that was announced at CES 2012.
Friday, 6 Jan 2012
Qualcomm GameCommand Heading to CES 2012
Similar to NVIDIA's Tegra Zone, Qualcomm's Snapdragon GameCommand gathers games that are optimized for the company's Snapdragon processors. The app will be unveiled at CES 2012 on 10th January with a concurrent launch on the Android Market.
Friday, 9 Dec 2011
SRS Labs & Qualcomm Integrate SRS Audio Technology on Qualcomm's Reference Design Development Platform
SRS audio solutions will ultilize Qualcomm's high performance, low power DSP inside the Snapdragon processor to enhance its mobile multimedia and audio capabilties.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2011
TSMC 28nm Technology in Volume Production
TSMC announced that its 28nm process is in volume production and production wafers have been shipped to customers. TSMC is the first foundry to provide such capabilities.