Car wars mean Qualcomm needs a bigger boat

Qualcomm is acquiring Autotalks, a fabless chipmaker out of Israel that builds semiconductor and system-on-a-chip technology to aid in automotive safety.

Plans to jack up its royalties

British chip designer Arm wants to increase the royalties it charges for its chip licensing, according to a report by Financial Times.

Qualcomm also working on the new Snapdragon 685 mid-range SoC

With Qualcomm unveiling its new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 mid-range chipset, it does not surprise that some phone manufacturers are lining up to announce their own devices, and it appears that Xiaomi and Realme are the first in line, with Redmi Note 12 Turbo and Realme GT Neo5 SE.

Redmi and realme on the list of devices coming this month

Qualcomm has announced its newest Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 mid-range chipset, featuring an octa-core (1+3+4) CPU configuration, and promising a 50 percent CPU performance improvement, 2x GPU performance boost, and 13 percent better power efficiency.

$499 and it runs Windows

Dell has released a Windows on Arm laptop with a $500 price tag.

1+4+3 CPU core configuration

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC might have a 1+4+3 CPU core configuration like the Gen 2 chip, which is in direct contrast to rumors that claimed Qualcomm would shift to a 1+5+2 setup for its next-gen flagship SoC.

Cristiano Amon and Carl Pei confirm it

Nothing has confirmed at the Mobile World Congress 2023 that the Nothing Phone 2 will be powered by a Snapdragon 8-series SoC when it launches later this year.

From the people who invented Apple’s eSim

Qualcomm is adding the “world’s first commercially deployable iSIM” (Integrated SIM) to its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform.

Qualcomm warns 

Sales of smartphones are going to be dire for a couple of years according to chipmaker Qualcomm -- which has made a bob or two on the tech over the years.

Everyone wants to escape this reality

Samsung  Google and Qualcomm are teaming up to build a mixed-reality platform.