Items tagged with Qualcomm

by Joel Hruska - Thu, Aug 19, 2010

Qualcomm Plans To Launch Extra-Snappy Dual-Core Snapdragon By Q4

When Apple launched the iPad last April, Qualcomm's Snapdragon QSD8250 was a popular point of comparison. The results, if you were a Qualcomm fan, were a bit disappointing. Clock-for-clock, the 1GHz A4 generally whomped all over the 1GHz Snapdragon. To be fair, this could also be the result of unoptimized software or... Read more...

by Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Jun 01, 2010

Qualcomm Enables High-end Smartphones With New Dual-CPU Snapdragon Chipset

Qualcomm announced the third generation of its popular Snapdragon family of chipsets. The new Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM8260 and MSM8660 solutions use two of the company's enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. According to Qualcomm, the MSM8260 and MSM8660 are the first members of the Snapdragon family to have a... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Tue, Apr 13, 2010

FLO TV Plans To Add On-Demand Content And Time-Shifted Viewing

Mobile TV is still a growing technology in the U.S. People haven't had time to decide whether or not they're interested, and it's still available in just a few select markets. But to say it's going away anytime soon would probably be taking things too far. FLO TV, by Qualcomm, is pushing itself as the go-to mobile TV... Read more...

by Jennifer Johnson - Thu, Sep 24, 2009

$399 IREX e-Reader Coming To Best Buy

IREX Technologies' new wireless DR800SG eBook reader will be available in select Best Buy stores at the end of next month. Other retailers will also offer the device in the first quarter of next year. First announced in August, the IREX e-reader features an 8.1 inch screen and supports multiple formats including industry standard ePub format... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Aug 04, 2009

New Smartbooks should Hit The Market Late This Year

Quick question—what's smaller than a netbook, bigger than a smartphone, and doesn't conform to Intel's definition of a MID (Mobile Internet Device?) If you guessed "smartbooks," give yourself a pat on the back for being prescient. If you've never heard of a smartbook before, don't feel bad; the term refers to a series of ARM-based sub-netbooks... Read more...

by Shawn Oliver - Sun, May 31, 2009

Smartbooks Entering The Fray To Take On Netbooks

Things are about to get a lot more cluttered in the netbook/smartphone/MID/UMPC space. As if that area wasn't jam-packed enough, right? This past week, both Qualcomm and Freescale announced news that they would be supporting a new breed of devices entitled "smartbooks," which would be positioned as smartphone complements and priced between... Read more...

by Shawn Oliver - Tue, Feb 17, 2009

Sony Adding Qualcomm's Gobi Chip To Select VAIOs

When Sony's VAIO P was unveiled here in America, many lamented the fact that it's onboard mobile broadband chip was locked to Verizon Wireless. Over at Mobile World Congress, Sony has announced plans to remedy that, though -- oddly enough -- it never mentions if these problem-solving machines will ship to the USA. Sony Electronics and Qualcomm... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 20, 2009

AMD Handheld Graphics and Multimedia Assets Sold

Qualcomm Acquires Handheld Graphics and Multimedia Assets from AMD— Technology and Resource Assets to Strengthen Qualcomm's Leadership Position in Mobile Multimedia — SAN DIEGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- January 20, 2009 -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Qualcomm has acquired certain graphics and... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Oct 02, 2007

AMD Licenses 3D Core Technology to Qualcomm

AMD Licenses 3D Graphics Core Technology to QUALCOMM, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience to Tomorrow's Phones Advanced QUALCOMM Wireless Chipsets to Include AMD Graphics Technology for Immersive Mobile Gaming SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- AMD (NYSE: AMD - News) today announced an agreement to license cutting-edge graphics core technology to... Read more...