Qualcomm launches new platforms for IoT, for multiple industries
Qualcomm Technologies launched processors and platforms for the Internet of Things devices across multiple industries that include retail, healthcare, logistics, and transportation. The addition of 5G networks in enterprise networking has allowed companies like Qualcomm to better gain a foothold fo...
Nokia and Qualcomm hit 750Mbps over 11kms with mmWave 5G
The companies set a new world record, achieving near Gigabit speeds for distances of 10 km
Nokia and Qualcomm announced this week that they had conducted a millimetre-wave (mmWave) test on a live 5G network that hit 748Mbps down and 56.8Mbps up at a range of 11.14 kilometres. At a distance of ar...
Qualcomm Announces World’s First 10 Gigabit 5G M.2 Reference Design
The company hopes to leverage the design to accelerate 5G adoption in new market segments
On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G M.2 Reference Designs for accelerating 5G adoption across industry segments.
The targeted segments include PCs, Always-Connected PCs (A...
Millions of smartphones have Qualcomm vulnerability
Slava Makkaveev, from Check Point Software Technologies, published a blog post on Thursday showing a security flaw in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem Interface. It can be exploited to control the modem and dynamically patch it from the application processor.
An attacker could use the flaw to e...
Qualcomm acquires chip designer Nuvia
Chip designer Qualcomm has announced that it has completed the acquisition of smaller chip manufacturer Nuvia. The company says it plans to release self-designed chips in the second half of 2022.
Nuvia is a relatively unknown start-up in the Arm chip market. It was founded by three chip designer...
Smartphones hit by chip shortage, Qualcomm can’t meet demand
Chip developer Qualcomm is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the demand for its smartphone chips. With this, the prevailing chip shortages have claimed a new victim.
Suppliers of Samsung tell Reuters that the smartphone manufacturer is struggling with a shortage of processors from Qualco...
Sophos and Qualcomm partner to provide endpoint protection
Sophos Group announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with Qualcomm to provide Intercept X endpoint protection to 5G PCs powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms.
Qualcomm’s main 8cv compute platform unveiled in December 2018, offers seven-nanometer CPUs designed for Windows 10 P...
Biden looking at solutions for chip shortages
The Biden administration is looking at ways to solve the increasingly severe shortage of semiconductors. The US government is looking at both short-term and long-term solutions.
In the short term, the focus is on bottlenecks in the chip supply chain, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki told Bloom...
Qualcomm introduces 10gbps 5G modem
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X65. According to the company, it is the world's first modem that supports network speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second. The modem is to be incorporated into smartphones, among other things.
The Snapdragon X65 is produced on TSMC's 4nm process. It has more...
Qualcomm’s new chipset brings 5G to budget phones
Snapdragon 480 aims to accelerate global 5G Commercialization and deliver enhanced features to the lower-cost Smartphone market.
Qualcomm this week announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 480 5G Mobile Platform. The company claims the 480 is the first 4-series mobile platform equipped with 5G.
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‘Microsoft working on ARM based processors for Azure and Surface’
Like Apple and Amazon, Microsoft appears to be working on the development of its own processors based on the ARM architecture. The chips are mainly intended for servers, but the company is also looking at possibilities for the Surface line.
The rumours originate from Bloomberg sources. In respon...
‘Apple developing its own modems’
Apple appears to have started developing its own modems. With these modems, the company would no longer be dependent on parties such as Qualcomm or Intel for its network equipment.
Johny Srouji, the senior vice president of hardware at Apple, is said to have informed Apple's employees internally...