Articles Tagged “Qualcomm”
Hungry for (wireless) power, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others form alliance
by Bams Sadewo on May 16, 2012 0 Comments">0
The benefits of a wireless charging kit for mobile devices go far beyond than just offering a tangle-free power solution. It also looks infinitely cooler, we think. Samsung is attempting to bring wireless charging to the forefront with the Galaxy S3 and its wireless charging accessory, tackling a challenge that saw others (such as Palm Pre) fail in the past. This time around, the Korean company has the backing of Qualcomm, as the two tech giants are now part of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), along with other members like Ever Win Industries, Gill Industries, Peiker Acustic, Powermat Technologies, …
Love gaming on your Android tablet? $20,000 could be yours!
by Ankit Banerjee on May 06, 2012 3 Comments">3
The massive advances in processor, graphics, and display technologies has made gaming on a handheld device a favorite past-time for many. Not only are there hugely popular made-for-mobile games such as Angry Birds, Draw Something, and Cut the Rope, but we’re now witnessing an increase in classic PC games and far more graphic-intensive games making their way onto our smartphones and tablets, as well. Procrastination, you are our friend. If you are one of those users who is addicted to gaming on your tablet and can go on for hours and hours — 26 hours nonstop to be specific — …
TSMC can only meet 70% of the demand for 28nm chips. First victim? The Asus Padfone
by Bams Sadewo on May 02, 2012 0 Comments">0
Some of the world’s finest artwork took years of labor to complete, so it shouldn’t be surprising to see Asus taking its sweet time with its masterpiece candidate, the Asus Padfone. First teased more than a year ago, we’ve seen the Padfone finally launching in its Taiwan home country in April. Now a tweet from Asus Indonesia seems to suggest that the launch date for other regions could be in jeopardy. Although the tweet didn’t mention specifically any launch delays, it said that Qualcomm is having problems meeting the demand for its highly sought-after Snapdragon S4 processor, which spells trouble for …
Why NVIDIA is going to have a stellar year
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 04, 2012 0 Comments">0
NVIDIA is one of the most well-known, respected and established names in the industry of graphics processing manufacturing. While this may be true, the US-based company has struggled to gain profitability due to a variety of environmental and economic events of the past few years. After being named Forbes’ “Company of the Year’’ in 2007, Jen-Hsun Huang’s electronics giant entered into a slippery slope of economic decline, constantly reporting quarterly losses and dips in revenue. While most companies would have cut costs and considered thinking of reducing production, NVIDIA did exactly the opposite. While the GeForce GPU product line has …
Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon S4 to power ultra-light Windows 8 notebooks
by Mike Andrici on Apr 04, 2012 1 Comments">1
Although Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 (based on the ARM Cotrex A15 architecture) holds out well against other competitors in the smartphone / tablet SoC market, such as the Nvidia Tegra 3, it looks like Qualcomm is about to release a quad-core version as well, one that will target the ultra-portable laptop market, as well as the next generation of superphones. In preparation for the release of Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS, the first Windows edition that will also come in an ARM-compatible variant, Qualcomm’s senior vice president Rob Chanhok has announced that their improved (quad-core) Snapdragon S4 chip will end up powering …
Qualcomm’s dual-core S4 beats Huawei’s quad-core K2V3 chip in GPU benchmark
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 02, 2012 7 Comments">7
The guys at Huawei made quite a stir at MWC earlier this year, when they announced the upcoming release of the Ascend D Quad XL, Huawei’s claim to the title of “world’s fastest smartphone”. While most of us weren’t exactly sold by their very bold statement, a benchmark leaked a couple of weeks ago seemed to confirm Huawei’s claims. The Basemark ES 2.0 Taiji scores at that time placed the Ascend D Quad XL, powered by the quad-core K2V3 chipset, in front of the Galaxy Note and the Asus Transformer Prime, which we all thought were the two most powerful …
Qualcomm forced to license Imagination GPUs for Windows 8 on ARM
by Mike Andrici on Mar 30, 2012 3 Comments">3
Although Windows 8 will be available for ARM-based mobile processors in addition to the usual x86 chips, don’t expect to find the exactly same software running on an Intel Core i5 and an ARM-based quad-core Tegra 3. Nonetheless, the Windows 8 graphic design (and the technical requirements associated) will remain the same in both Windows 8 versions. As a result, it turns out that Qualcomm (the company that sells the most systems-on-a-chip in the world) will have to make some rapid GPU improvements to the Snapdragon S4 SoC, so that it can properly run Microsoft’s upcoming universal OS. While the Qualcomm-produced …
Craving some Snapdragon-powered goodies? Join the “One Charge” competition from Qualcomm
by Bams Sadewo on Mar 28, 2012 2 Comments">2
Prizes, who doesn’t like them? If you’re up for the task, you stand a chance to win a new smartphone or tablet powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip. How? As a way to promote the energy efficiency of its Snapdragon processors, Qualcomm dares you to take the “Around the World on One Charge” challenge, which offers a Snapdragon device as the grand prize. The premise behind the challenge is simple. You just have to think of creative ways to highlight the battery performance of your smartphone, and submit the video or picture to the company’s Facebook page. As you can see …
ARM reveals the Cortex-M0+ architecture: the “internet of things” is closer
by Mike Andrici on Mar 23, 2012 0 Comments">0
Regular Android Authority readers, as well as tech-buffs, know that the mobile processor market is (and has been for the past years) under an almost complete ARM dominance. OK, so what about the big smartphone CPU manufacturers, such Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, Texas Instruments, or Apple? Don’t they have anything to “say” about this? Well, the thing is most smartphone CPU’s are actually built on ARM-developed architectures, no matter if we’re talking about Qualcomm’s S3 and S4 chips, Samsung’s Exynos, or Apple’s A5X SoC. Although Intel’s Medfield chip is marketed and hyped as an alternative to ARM processors, it’s safe to …
Qualcomm vs NVIDIA: a tight battle for the #1 spot in 2012
by Mike Andrici on Mar 20, 2012 6 Comments">6
When it comes to today’s smartphones, there’s a lot of interest around what devices are getting what SoC (System on a Chip). Many expected 2012 to be the year of the quad-core smartphone, but it’s much more likely that dual-core processors will still continue to show up in flagship superphones and attract a lot of customers from the substantial mid-end market. The five major tech companies that dominate smartphone processor sales currently are Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Samsung, and –don’t you know it- Apple. Since the latter two make processors almost exclusively for their own smartphones, and with Texas Instruments …
[Updated] Delay of the S4 production may affect future consumer interest
by Lucian Armasu on Mar 13, 2012 0 Comments">0
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[Updated with TI's input on the OMAP 4460] Nobody seems to have a perfect launch in the chip industry. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t. Their only consolation is that their competitors can have the same problem. We’ve been upset with Nvidia for delaying, for months at a time, both the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 chips, but the others have had and have delays, too. The OMAP 4460 at 1.5 Ghz was supposed to come out last fall, but so far we still haven’t seen it yet, and they’re likely to just skip it and jump straight …
Rumored Supply Chain Problems Could Delay Major Android Releases
by Bogdan Petrovan on Mar 10, 2012 0 Comments">0
San Diego-based Qualcomm supplies SoCs for many Android makers, with its dual-core Snapdragon S4 (Krait) chip powering several high-profile Android devices that are coming over the next months. But Qualcomm is a fabless firm, meaning that it doesn’t actually manufacture the chips it designs and markets. Fabrication is handled by Asian semiconductor specialists, most notably Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Now, Qualcomm seems to be running into serious issues with its S4 chip. According to a rumor reported by Semi Accurate, TSMC has encountered major problems with its 28nm chip line, causing it to halt production. The issues appeared to …
Qualcomm Intros Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC and Three New Gobi Modem Chipsets Supporting LTE Advanced and HSPA+ – Look Out NVIDIA
by Gene Briones on Feb 28, 2012 7 Comments">7
Qualcomm, the world-leading wireless telecommunications research and development company and the world’s largest fabless chip supplier, has introduced a newly improved version of the Snapdragron S4 chip as well as three new Gobi modem chipsets at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, Spain. The newly improved Snapdragron S4 SoC, dubbed as the “Snapdragron S4 Pro”, takes the ordinary dual-core Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 chip used in the HTC One X/S and the Asus Padfone to a whole new different level. So what’s so interesting about the S4 Pro? First and foremost, this SoC has a blazing fast graphics processor, thanks …
Game Developers, Please Don’t Ignore the Other Mobile Chips
by Lucian Armasu on Feb 28, 2012 3 Comments">3
First of all, I think Nvidia has done us a great favor, and we should be thankful to them. I wouldn’t say they’ve brought all the 3D games to Android. That isn’t true or close to being true, but they’ve certainly done their part, and have tried to bring high quality games not just in content but also in graphics to the Android platform, thanks to the Tegra Zone. Unfortunately, that is also a problem, and one that may become bigger in the future as the Tegra architecture becomes more popular and is in more devices. From what we’ve seen …
Qualcomm Brings Us Closer to a Future of All-IP Communications
by Lucian Armasu on Feb 02, 2012 0 Comments">0
VoLTE or Voice over LTE is something Verizon has been trying to implement in their LTE network for a while now. They realize that the future is all about using voice over the data pipeline, and they want to be the first in the US to do it. But to do that they need chips that are able to achieve that in a very efficient way, and Qualcomm is the first to make that happen. Many might not realize this, but Qualcomm used to be a company that was a lot more known for their telecommunications business than for their …
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