Like PC sales and tablets, smartphone sales were down in Q1, according to Gartner, IDC, TrendForce, and others. IDC said smartphone shipment volumes for the first quarter of 2019 fell 6.6% on-year after a 4.9% year-over-year decline in the fourth quarter of 2018, and Gartner said Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 2.7% in the first quarter of … Read more
At AWE this week, Qualcomm introduced its new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Smart Viewer reference design that, the company says, will make it easier for hardware companies to create lightweight augmented reality glasses. XR1 is Qualcomm’s newest generation platform that, the company says, when implemented by its OEMs will bring mainstream users high-quality XR experiences. The XR1 platform also has special … Read more
Is this the one that will go to market? Qualcomm has shown up at Computex with an always on, always connected light-weight Windows compatible clamshell notebook since 2016. And yet, it never seemed to make it to the market. HP built one and Acer built one and Qualcomm showed them at their analysts and press meetings, but they were hard … Read more
Computex is shaping up to be another big year. Our friends at AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have been bugging us with hints and promises and demands because they’re lining up their big announcements and they want to make sure we recognize Computex week as a worldwide celebration of compute power. AMD is expected to show the 2nd Gen of Ryzen but … Read more
After years of testing, and trials in various cities around the world, the U.S., the U.K., and other counties are rolling out 5G. AT&T, Verizon, and BT announced at Qualcomm’s Tech Forum currently going on in Hawaii that they have turned on 5G in cities all over the world, including hurricane devastated Panama City where the infrastructure was severely … Read more
December 4, 2018 marks as the rollout of 5G
We’ve all seen that thing where people start to look like their dog. Apparently, it’s a real phenomenon that has produced lots of academic studies to try to explain it. No-one really knows for sure but the consensus opinion is that if an owner can’t find a dog that looks like them, they will change themselves to look like their … Read more
THX came to NAB 2018 with a big agenda and thanks to investment from Razer, some budget to work with. Razer is a major investor in THX and the company’s CEO Min-Liang Tan is currently the acting CEO of THX Ltd. Razer is investing in THX to rebuild the company’s position in cinema and consumer electronics. At NAB, THX showcased … Read more
If you thought the Snapdragon 845 was good, and tens of millions of people did (do), then you’re going to be blown away by the Snapdragon 850. It delivers more stuff like pixels, and compute, on less power than any other SoC in the world, and its probably going to hold that title for a while. Snapdragon will be used … Read more
A scattershot view of the latest news on the front Looks like the first quarter of 2018 is shaping up to be big for the future of AI. Companies in the segment including cloud companies, IP companies, and the traditional semiconductor companies all have major ambitions for the huge explosive market that AI is becoming. A battle is forming around … Read more
Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in high-tier smartphones and can meet the ever-increasing demands of China’s smartphone ecosystem for more premium devices. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series offers … Read more
Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in high-tier smartphones and can meet the ever-increasing demands of China’s smartphone ecosystem for more premium devices. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series offers … Read more
