Qualcomm snaps up chief branding lady from Intel
Penny Baldwin is the new CMO
Qualcomm announced late last week that it hired Penny Baldwin to join it as the senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO). Penny’s last job was the VP, General Manager, Global Brand Management, Partner and New Technology Group Marketing at Intel.
Bitcoin hits $6,000 while mining peaks
Crypto GPU market here to stay
AMD and Nvidia are heavily profitinging from the crypto market right now. Today, a few quarters into the whole Bitcoin and Ethereum, it looks like the cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
RTG falls under AMD again
Inside shake up
There's been a lot of noise about Raja Koduri Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. His job is to run the Radeon Technologies Group and it was confirmed that he is taking a few months off as a sabbatical. Now Fudzilla has learned about a big shake up inside AMD.
Microsoft Cortana speaker hits stores
Invoke speaker at $199
Microsoft has joined a long list of vendors supporting smart talking speakers. The marriage with the famous Harman Kardon manufacturer created a Cortana powered speaker called Invoke.
One Plus 5T gets Snapdragon 835
As there is no faster 83x version
The upcoming One Plus 5T phone is based on the Snapdragon 835 and will be the quickest Snapdragon to ship this year.
Essential phone PH-1 is now $499
A Snapdragon 835 at great price
Essential phone PH-1 sales are slower than the company bosses expected, and the company has decided to cut the price by $200.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 is 10nm
7nm is next year
Qualcomm's flagship SoCs are the leading-edge process and Fudzilla can now confirm that Snapdragon 845 SoC, likely to be presented this year, will be made on a 10nm FinFET manufacturing process.
Qualcomm pushes Gigabit 4G beyond 1.2 Gbps
Exclusive: Confirmed by Cristiano Amon and Alex Katouzian
Top Qualcomm executives have confirmed that the chipmaker is working out ways to take 4G beyond Snapdragon X20 speeds of 1.2Gbps.
Snapdragon on Windows runs Netflix for 29 hours
Up to 18 hours on an LTE 4G connected battery
Cristiano Amon gave us more details about the Snapdragon on Windows 10 and confirmed that there is an extreme battery life gain.
Qualcomm routers with 802.11 ax in 2018
Confirmed by the Qualcomm’s SVP of connectivity
Qualcomm's Connectivity bloke Rahul Patel claims that the next big thing when it comes to Wireless will be 802.11 ax SVP and we can expect Qualcomm powered 802.11ax routers to appear in 2018.