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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, Jun 26, 2025
Android handset fans have been chomping at the bit for news on this year's various upcoming flagship chipsets, and the rumor mill produced a fine bit of info. According to known leaker Digital Chat Station (DCS), flagship-level Snapdragon...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jun 09, 2025
In a big move set to significantly bolster its presence in the burgeoning data center and AI infrastructure markets, semiconductor giant Qualcomm announced today its agreement to acquire UK-based Alphawave Semi, a leading provider of...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 02, 2025
Don't expect Qualcomm to pump the brakes as it accelerates further into laptop and desktop form factors with its Snapdragon X silicon. Just the opposite, Qualcomm has stated time and again that it plans on expanding its Windows on...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 15, 2025
Qualcomm today unveiled the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, its newest 7-series chipset to give midrange phones a jolt in several key areas. According to Qualcomm, it delivers performance gains across the board—27% increase in CPU performance, 30%...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 06, 2025
Turns out that recent leaks suggesting that new Surface hardware was on the horizon were right on the money. How so? Microsoft today unveiled a couple of new Surface models, including the Surface Pro, 12-inch and Surface Laptop, 13-inch...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 27, 2025
Qualcomm is reportedly urging multiple antitrust agencies around the globe to intervene in its dispute with Arm, with the former privately alleging in meetings and secret filings that the latter is engaging in unfair business practices...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 17, 2025
If you're not a big gamer, you may have been perplexed at the recent preponderance of portable gaming PCs in handheld game system form. We could talk at length about why they've exploded in popularity *now*, but that's not why you clicked...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 03, 2025
At MWC, Qualcomm announced that it is expanding its 5G portfolio with the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF and the Dragonwing FWA Gen 4 Elite platform, which is the first major product under the company's new Dragonwing branding. While AI is...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 25, 2025
If you are reading this, there's a pretty good chance that you are already familiar with Qualcomm's Snapdragon branding. Snapdragon is the dominant mobile chip platform in Android-based smartphones and Arm-based Copilot+ PCs, with...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
As much as we're enamored by the high-end silicon (like the Snapdragon 8 Elite) that drives flagship smartphones, we're equally impressed by the gains we've seen in the more affordable mid-range segment over the past several years. To that...
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Ben Funk - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Rightly or wrongly, most folks historically assumed that Macs were the way to go, for digital music production. However, Windows has been home to just about every digital audio workstation (DAW) outside of Apple's own Logic and GarageBand...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Feb 06, 2025
Qualcomm's latest earnings report is out, and the company is riding high on strong handset, automotive and laptop platform revenue numbers. For Q1 of FY2025, Qualcomm posted revenue of $11.7 billion, up 14% quarter-over-quarter and 18%...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jan 28, 2025
Qualcomm's ambitions to dominate the ARM-based laptop market took another step forward with the apparent shipping of the Snapdragon X2 Ultra (Premium?) chip, as revealed by recent shipping logs spotted by enthusiast and occasional leaker...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jan 06, 2025
Qualcomm announced today a slew of AI innovations that seek to transform user experiences across multiple categories, with automotive and enterprise/industrial applications among them. In the automotive sector, the chipset maker believes...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 06, 2025
Make no mistake, Qualcomm has big aspirations of taking x86's lunch money in the consumer PC space, and while that's been true for a long while now, the effort really began in earnest with its Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 17, 2024
As more Arm-based solutions make headway into a PC market that's traditionally been dominated by x86 solutions, it's understandable that Intel, the largest player in the x86 chip space, might feel a little nervous. But is there anything to...
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Dave Altavilla, Alan Velasco - Sun, Dec 08, 2024
Apple has long been angling to ditch Qualcomm and use modems designed in-house, and it seems as if the upcoming iPhone SE 4 will be the beginning of the transition process. The company believes the new modem will allow it to manufacture...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 07, 2024
It has taken a few attempts, but Arm is finally starting to hits its stride on Windows, and it's thanks in large part to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors. What's also helped is that Microsoft promoted Snapdragon X...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Nov 06, 2024
When we tested laptops based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors, we were very impressed overall with the performance and the battery life, as both were objectively excellent—mostly making good on Qualcomm's claims.
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Zak Killian - Thu, Oct 24, 2024
HotHardware's very own Dave Altavilla is on site in Maui, Hawaii, at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit where the chip company has revealed its latest Snapdragon 8-family of processors, known as "Snapragon 8 Elite" due to their inclusion of...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Oct 23, 2024
Arm Ltd has reportedly cancelled a license granted to Qualcomm to design chips based on its technology, possibly throwing the mobile market into a state of disarray. The report states Arm has given Qualcomm a 60-day notice of the...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Oct 22, 2024
Qualcomm has just announced its latest intelligent automotive platforms, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite. The big news here is that both systems will be powered by the company's Oryon CPU architecture, which promises...
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