Taking the fight to Samsung

Details about the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100 Plus chipset have leaked and it appears that the chipmaker wants to take the “wearables” crown from Samsung.

Yield rate too low

Qualcomm has apparently walked away from Samsung for its 4nm process chips because the outfit’s yields were too low.

SM8550 - will support AV1

Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec next year with the SM8550" supporting it.

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25 to 50 percent faster than the Qualcomm counterpart

The GPU inside Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2200 SoC, called the Xclipse 920, is doing quite well, giving some impressive scores in Geekbench benchmarks.

Backed by Thales, Vodafone, and Samsung

Qualcomm has come up with a mobile processor which has an integrated SIM and the technology is being backed by Vodafone, Samsung and Thales.

Showing off at CES

Qualcomm is working with Microsoft on custom chips that would control lightweight augmented reality glasses for use by both consumers and businesses for metaverse apps.

One of the big ones

Part of today's Qualcomm CES Automotive focused keynote CEO Cristiano Amon and Nakul Duggal, SVP & GM, automotive, announced that Honda chose 3rd generation Snapdragon Automotive cockpit solutions for its upcoming US and Worldwide cars.

Edge X30 Special Edition to feature under-display front camera

It is official, Motorola is the first one to announce a phone with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The Motorola Edge X30 will be coming in two versions, with the Edge X30 Special Edition featuring an under-display front camera. The company also came up with the Motorola Edge S30, one to have the Snapdragon 888+ SoC.

SoC targeting handheld consoles, as well as other devices

Qualcomm is on a roll these days at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021, and a big part of the day-two has been left for the Snapdraong G3x Gen 1, a special SoC targetting handheld consoles and similar devices. It even partnered up with Razer, creating the Snapdragon G3x Handheld Development kit.