No notebooks and slim EPYC

AMD got mostly positive comments on its financial performance in Q2 18, and it did a great job having the highest quarter in five years. The logic behind this data is that AMD had more than five years of very weak product portfolio to sell especially in desktop/data center and since early 2017 they finally have Ryzen on desktop and EPYC on the data center side.  

Qualcomm CEO confirms

5G is just around the corner in the phone form factor and Qualcomm has now said that OEM devices can be expected in early 2019.

Expand MacPro or PC

Notebooks today have less and less ports as they tend to be very slim but most of the machines including MacBook pro or Dell XPS 13 come with Type C USB that enables a lot of expansion. Minix Neo C Plus is a new adapter hub that brings two HDMI ports enabling 4K 30 Hz each.

199M Snapdragons in Q3 FY2018

Qualcomm has announced its financial Q3 2018 results and the company ended up with $5.6 billion of revenue, at the top end of its $4.8 – $5.6 billian guidance. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was expected at $0.65 - $0.75 and in reality it ended up at $1.01.

Apple lover stuck with slower choice

Qualcomm has been signaling since the beginning of the 2018 that it might not end up in Apple's iPhone 2018 and at its last financial conference call it officially confirmed it.

Will repurchase $30 billion in stocks

Due to the China regulatory agency's standstill in regulatory approval, Qualcomm has decided to terminate the NXP $44 billion acquisition deal and pay the $2 billion breakup fee.

Partial payment from a disputed licensee

Qualcomm Technologies Licensing (QTL) has announced that a licensee in dispute with the company decided to pay it $500 million, something that heavily reflected on the QTL financial results for fiscal Q3 2018. This number goes on top of a good fiscal Q3 2018 where the company beat previous estimates.  

Why is mmWave crucial for Multi Gbps speeds

A few months back Fudzilla  reported about a 5G reference design of the phone with three mmWave antenna openings, and today, Qualcomm announced the new design with four antennas at half the size. Nick covered this part well, but we wanted to add some additional information about this important step in the development of 5G.

TIM Italy with multi Gigabit speeds

After yesterday’s announcement that Qualcomm has four mm wave 5G antenna solution for a phone form factor, we wanted to shift some attention to carriers that might support these wave lengths and fast speeds and it looks like US and Europe will start straight away.

Turn around looks established

IBM reported second-quarter profit and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations as it benefited from growth in higher margin businesses including cybersecurity and cloud computing.