Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to build it. The idea of being able to get online anytime, anywhere was undoubtedly appealing. A bit problematic about how to deal with the phone … Read more
Pixelworks has been building video co-processors and offering IP solutions for mobile devices for some time now. The company is an acknowledged leader in the field and knows how to squeeze zillions of colors out without draining the battery (it’s a black art that seems to defy the laws of physics). One of Pixelworks’ customers is Vivo, a Chinese smartphone … Read more
AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. AMD addresses security on multiple levels for the new Ryzen Pro 5000 series The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from … Read more
Last week, Japan telecom giant, NTT Docomo, held its annual open house to introduce its current & future technology and activities. In conjunction with this event, Docomo, and USA/Canadian startup, Arcturus Studio, announced their working collaboration to stream high-quality volumetric videos of any length directly to Docomo 5G mobile network customers. Volumetric videos are characterized large and complex files that … Read more
Qualcomm Technologies just announced its Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform, a follow-on to the Snapdragon 675 introduced in 2018. The new chip, says Qualcomm, will deliver overall performance upgrades, high-speed connections for sophisticated photo and video capture, and immersive entertainment experiences. Snapdragon 678, says Qualcomm, offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: Qualcomm Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up … Read more
We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a … Read more
Qualcomm is building on the promise of its 7x line to enable high-end features for mid-range mobile devices. The Snapdragon 732G mobile platform arrives as a successor to the Snapdragon 730G and it’s targeted at devices with gaming in mind. The big news is that this latest chip will arrive in a new Poco phone. Poco officially spun out of … Read more
There is nothing but good news on the AR front as the duel mobile platform giants Google and Apple improve their mobile AR SDKs. Apple went big with the introduction of ARKit 4 through its online WWDC 2020 conference this year. Of the two, Apple is also the most hardware dependent, which is as to be expected. This year WWDC … Read more
Snapdragon 768G designed for immersive gaming and 5G
In a specification free news announcement, Qualcomm has introduced a new Snapdragon SoC, the 768G. We have found out that the CPU has one core at 2.8 GHz, another at 2.4 GHz, plus six others running at 1.8 GHz. The GPU, however, will remain the same, an Adreno 620, although the clock has been increased to 750 MHz (from 625 … Read more
(Source: Marko C, Ljubljana) Qualcomm Technologies unveiled a new extended reality (XR) reference design headset based on the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company has been successful with its XR program and claims design wins for more than 30 headsets—including major brands such as Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HoloLens 2, and Vive Focus. Many, if not all, of the design … Read more
A back to the future Adventure-style game with video
