Chinese trade block extended to SMIC
US President Donald Trump has added some new names to the list of Chinese companies associated with the Chinese army. These include SMIC, a chip manufacturer, and CNOOC, a major oil company.
The trade ban is a further step in a series of blockades imposed by the US Government for security reason...
Qualcomm allowed to sell 4G chips to Huawei again
The United States on Friday has granted Qualcomm a license to sell 4G chips to Huawei. Trade with the Chinese company is still officially prohibited.
A Qualcomm spokesperson told Reuters that the company has been licensed to sell a number of products, including 4G equipment. Exactly which produc...
Qualcomm expands into IoT, auto and edge computing
The company's latest quarterly report reveals new focus areas.
Qualcomm recently published its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report included automotive and IoT sales. These two sectors also rely on 5G, as does Qualcomm;s core business. However the move into them signals the company's strategic ...
Android phones in danger due to hackable Qualcomm chip
Qualcomm chips are present in more than 40 percent of the smartphones, and those chips have a major vulnerability that enables hackers to gain access to the smartphone. This is a significant threat to Android phones (Apple uses other chips) all over the world. Hackers can spy on smartphone users an...
Qualcomm introduces new FastConnect chips with wifi 6E integration
Qualcomm has announced two new chipsets with support for wifi 6E. The FastConnect 6900 and 6700 will appear in the second half of this year.
The mobile chips, the FastConnect 6700 and FastConnect 6900 can reach a theoretical top speed of 3 Gbit/s and 3.6 Gbit/s. The new chips can reach this spee...
Qualcomm introduces ultra-fast X60 5nm chip
Qualcomm's new X60 chip should become the standard in the next generation of 5G smartphones. The 5 nanometer architecture is extra efficient and offers double the transfer speed.
Qualcomm uses a five-nanometer process, which means that the chip uses less energy than the X55 model of the previous...
EU investigates Qualcomm for forcing chips on smartphone makers
The umpteenth investigation into choices made by Qualcomm has been announced. Whereas in recent years it has already had to pay billions because of anti-competitive behaviour on the chip market, it is now the European Union that is investigating the issue of a new series of chips. The special radio...
Qualcomm invests $200 million in 5G start-ups
Qualcomm is working on 5G hardware for smartphones and other devices. However, the company also wants startups to get involved in this market and to develop new use cases for 5G. To this end, it is now setting up an investment fund.
Through the new Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund, Qualcomm h...
Microsoft makes Vision AI Developer Kit widely available
Microsoft has made its Vision AI Developer Kit widely available through Arrow Electronics. The developer kit is a hardware base built on Qualcomm's Vision Intelligence Platform and designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models locally and integrate with Azure ML and Azure IoT Edge.
The develop...
QualPwn vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chipsets affect Android phones
In this month's Security Bulletin, Android has rolled out security updates that solve two dangerous vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are contained in Qualcomm chips and affect every device that is equipped with these chipsets.
The two vulnerabilities are called QualPwn together, writes ZDNet....
White House wants to talk to Intel, Google and Qualcomm about Huawei prohibition
Top people from various American tech companies have been invited to the White House to discuss the ban on trade with the Chinese company Huawei. That puts two sources who are aware of the meeting opposite Reuters.
The meeting is organized by economic advisor Larry Kudlow of the White House. Ministe...
EU fines Qualcomm for unreasonably low priced chips
The European Union has fined Qualcomm 242 million euros. The reason is that the company sold its chips at unreasonably low prices, hoping to harm competition.
The fine revolves around the older 3G baseband chips for mobile internet dongles. Europe conducted four years of research and discovered tha...