Intel’s revised roadmap includes building chips for Qualcomm
The company plans to catch up with its foundry rivals by 2025.
Intel this week announced that it is teaming up with Qualcomm to manufacture some of Qualcomm's future chips.
Intel will manufacture the chips for Qualcomm using that 20A process technology. Qualcomm currently uses multiple foun... Read more
Qualcomm wants to invest in Arm – under one condition
Qualcomm did not comment on these offers. Nvidia says that an IPO can't sustain Arm's growth, but they can.
The U.S chip giant, Qualcomm, announced recently that it would be willing to invest in the U.K.-based chip company, Arm, only "if they list the company on the stock market instead of selli... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more