Qualcomm is leveraging automotive connectivity for assisted and autonomous driving, digital cockpit, and more
As Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said during CES, the company is “all in on auto.” With its Snapdragon Digital Chassis, a platform designed to facilitate the transition to software-defined vehicles via...
Air interface innovations and new services on the way with 5G Advanced and 6G
In addition to driving the ongoing standardization of 5G Advanced and early scoping of 6G, Qualcomm engages in long-term foundational research geared toward identifying and solving problems facing ever-evolving mobile networks....
Huawei replaced these parts with components developed by itself and other Chinese companies over the last three years
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has replaced more than 13,000 components that had been affected by the restrictions imposed by the U.S government, Chinese press reported, citing the...
Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...
As diversification strategy plays out, Qualcomm tells shareholders about momentum in automotive, edge networking, IoT
“We’re very excited about the future of Qualcomm,” CEO Critiano Amon said earlier this month at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. “And we continue to believe that the best of...
Samsung Electronics plans to make a massive $230 billion investment in South Korea's chip-making capacity, in the form of a new "mega cluster" of silicon manufacturing that could end up being the world's largest such hub.
The investment, to be made over the next...
To propel Open RAN, vRAN and public and private 5G networks, Qualcomm is drawing on domain expertise in connectivity and low-power compute
Qualcomm again demonstrated the ongoing strength of its diversification push during Mobile World Congress with a number of partner announcements highlighting the semiconductor...
The White House is pondering more extensive U.S. limitations on the sale of chips and chip-making equipment to Chinese companies, and those could have substantial impacts on Nvidia's ability to sell to Huawei and a lesser impact on Qualcomm, according to press reports on...
BARCELONA--Every year at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) event in Barcelona, the world’s biggest telecom operators gather among the smartphone OEMs and chip vendors to show off their latest achievements. This year, many of the telcos coalesced around Qualcomm’s XR platform, Snapdragon Spaces. Seven...
Delivering a 5G Advanced-ready modem/RF system will help Qualcomm continue to deliver on its diversification strategy
Qualcomm today gave a first look at its new Snapdragon X75 Modem/RF System that is being positioned as providing device OEMs an evolutionary path forward to 3GPP Rel. 18...
5G NR-Light is considered ideal for use cases like surveillance cameras, wearables and consumer IoT devices
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System chipset, a 5G NR-Light — or reduced capability (RedCap) — modem designed for lower-cost, smaller form-factor devices. According to the...
In Q1 of its fiscal 2023, Qualcomm revenues were down but diversification strategy seems to be working
Global macroeconomic headwinds, as well as weak demand and an inventory drawdown hitting the handset business, impacted Qualcomm’s Q1; the company reported a 12% year-over-year revenue decrease to...
Qualcomm CEO: "The technology you find today in your phone, you can simply think about this future where every other device can have the same technology”
Joining business and government leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon...
At CES Qualcomm unveils concept car, announces new SoC for ADAS and digital cockpit, partners with Salesforce on automotive cloud
LAS VEGAS—Qualcomm executives have for some time been discussing the chipmaker’s diversification strategy, which essentially leverages technologies developed for mobile communications and applies that expertise...
The new chipset is built on TSMC's 4nm fabrication technology
Last month, MediaTek announced its first SoC for 5G flagship smartphones, the Dimensity 9200. This week, the company has revealed yet another chipset in the lineup: The Dimensity 8200. The new chipset is designed for...
The Industry 4.0 concept is driving the popularity of private 5G networks, which are also being increasingly adopted in the manufacturing and logistics space due to the lower costs of spectrum, Renu Navale, vice president in the Network and Edge Group and general manager...
Viettel began testing commercial 5G services in parts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2019
AMD announced the successful completion of a 5G mobile network field trial with Viettel Group’s R&D arm Viettel High Tech (VHT). AMD supplied its Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices for...
Here we go again. Qualcomm has found itself in the middle of yet another grueling battle. This time with Arm, the chip technology company it has been working with. While no one knows how long this new fight will last, looking back on past...
With strategic branded technology partnerships and its Snapdragon Insiders program, Qualcomm is quickly developing its consumer-facing Snapdragon brand
Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit.
MAUI—In July 2021, Don McGuire was appointed senior vice president and chief marketing officer...
As Qualcomm leverages mobile tech to grow automotive, compute, IoT and XR businesses, AI is seemingly the tie that binds
Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with the Snapdragon Summit.
MAUI—The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit is in its seventh year. Looking back...
Latest Qualcomm flagship mobile platform uses AI to power camera, connectivity, gaming, security and sound
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MAUI—At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm today unveiled its latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen...
The new MediaTek 5G chip offers a different multi-link operation architecture than its competitors
Wi-Fi 7 is about more than speed. For those in the industry, it’s becoming increasingly clear that in order for wireless technology to better address the emerging use cases, it’s...
On September 30, 2022, Qualcomm Inc. quietly filed a counterclaim to Arm’s lawsuit against Qualcomm/Nuvia. It was a long-awaited rebuttal as it seemed Qualcomm had gone dark after the company’s General Counsel, Ann Chaplin, released a brief retort shortly after Arm went very public...
The MediaTek Dimensity 9200 supports seamless switching between mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz connectivity
MediaTek this week unveiled its latest 5G chipset — the Dimensity 9200 — which will take up residence in flagship smartphones. The SoC supports both mmWave 5G and sub-6 GHz connectivity, as...
