Qualcomm won’t be in the 2018 iPhone
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.
Qualcomm officially terminates the NXP deal
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.
Qualcomm QTL made extra $500 million
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.
5G mmWave and sub 6Ghz phones will arrive in early 2019
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.
European telcos implementing mmWave 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.
Big Blue is back and beating Wall Street
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.
Xilinx acquired DeePhi Tech for AI and ML
Accelerate data center and intelligent edge
Xilinx is getting big on intelligence and adaptive computing and the company just announced that it acquired DeePhi Technology Co., Ltd (DeePhi Tech) company specializes in machine learning, deep compression pruning, and system-level optimization for neural networks. Let’s just sum this up and say that it is good at AI and ML.
Xiaomi Mi MAX 3 is 6.9 inch
Snapdragon 636, 6GB RAM 5500 mAH
Remember the Nexus 7tablet, that tablet has change it all and it was the right size/performance and excellent price? Years later, Xiaomi is preparing to launch wait for it, a 6.9 inch phone called the Mi MAX 3.
Xiaomi needs to think internationally
Mi8 still not launched in Europe
Xiaomi has finally listed publicly, and the company has launched a few flagship phones including Mi 8 and MI8 SE but these latter two are yet to be shipped in Europe.
Makibes G03 Plus GPS smartband
Good tracking for €38.57
Makibes is not a big established brand in the bushel of smart fitness trackers but the company managed to make an affordable, connected, GPS smart band and price it for under 40 Euro / $44 USD.