by Lucian Armasu, 8 months ago

Today, at IFA, Sony unveiled three new smartphones, each for a certain price range and category: Sony Xperia T, Sony Xperia V, and Sony Xperia J. Out of these three, the Sony Xperia T  (Sony…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

When Qualcomm launched the new “Krait” CPU architecture, I was disappointed that it didn’t launch the new Adreno 3xx GPU architecture as well. Ever since Qualcomm bought the Adreno team and technology from AMD a…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

Qualcomm is the biggest chip supplier right now in the Android smartphone market, in part because its Snapdragon CPU became very popular thanks to the Nexus One and HTC’s phones back in 2010, and thanks…

by Lucian Armasu, 11 months ago

Qualcomm is currently the mobile chip leader in the market thanks to many factors, like the fact that they produce chips from devices that are at the low-end and made for volume, and up to…

by Lucian Armasu, 11 months ago

The original Galaxy S model was expected to sell 10 million units during the second part of 2010, while the Galaxy S2 was expected to reach 20 million in the same period. The Galaxy S3…

by Lucian Armasu, 11 months ago

The Snapdragon S4 processor was made at 28nm, and since 28nm is a brand new process for Global Foundries (Qualcomm’s main foundry) and also for TSMC, which means that some unexpected issues may appear, or…

by Lucian Armasu, 1 year ago

[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…

by Lucian Armasu, 1 year ago

Dual core or quad core? Which should you pick? If the decision was that simple, I’m sure most people would just go with the quad core chip. But what if the dual core chip this…

by Gene Briones, 1 year ago

 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…