That Silicon Valley loves anything new is clear in everything from the IT industry’s vigorous promotion of emerging trends and products to its enthusiastic drumbeating for sometimes vaporous start-ups. The value of this Super Lotto culture is seldom questioned, especially […]
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Apple has apparently been trying to force Qualcomm to lower its licensing prices recently—talking its ODMs (original design manufacturers) into stopping payment to Qualcomm and agreeing to pay the ODM’s legal fees if they are sued, which they recently were.
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I’m wading through the Qualcomm answer to Apple’s lawsuit against it and when I hit page 46 (item 4 bullet 4) I had an “oh crap” moment. Qualcomm is alleging that Apple is intentionally crippling certain iPhones so that users
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There was a pretty big announcement this month. Microsoft and Qualcomm just announced they are developing Snapdragon based laptops running Windows. What makes this interesting is that Windows hasn’t supported a platform other than x86 in its complete form since
Intel and Qualcomm Play Game of Thrones for the Desktop and Forget the Queen of Dragons Read More »
This last week Qualcomm announced their next generation system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Snapdragon 835 and oh there are features that make the list of things that are lust-worthy. The top of the list is a combination of 27 percent higher performance
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A couple of years back Qualcomm began an effort to become as powerful in IoT (Internet of Things) devices as it is in smartphone. I recently got an update from Qualcomm, and man—it has made progress. Now Qualcomm just has
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MU-MIMO (multi-user, multiple input / multiple output), the fastest form of Wi-Fi currently has been in market for some time in routers but there has been a dearth of devices that make use of that new standard largely because the
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Qualcomm just released a report on the performance in Korea of its next-generation LTE platform. What is interesting is that for most parts of the world download speeds have been increasing steadily for some time but upload speeds pretty much
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Wearables are a mess at the moment. Pumped to be the next big thing since the iPad, not even the Apple Watch is doing particularly well. A lot of this is because—unlike the iPod, iPhone, and iPad—Apple’s effort broke both
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I was actually expecting a bit more of this earlier but Qualcomm closed their acquisition of CSR this week and the end result is that it will, once the packaging and integration efforts complete, be far better able to compete
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