Vernee Mars announces Helio P20 phone
November, 6GB RAM
It looks like MediaTek wants to get on board with 6GB RAM phones and the Helio P20 platform may well be the first one to support it.
Intel won’t dominate in 5G
Here is why
Intel, Samsung, MediaTek, Huawei and Qualcomm all claim the leadership for 5G and most of them will have a tough time to deliver on this promise. Nokia, Huawei and Ericsson - from the networking component standpoint - claim they can do great things with 5G.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has Snapdragon and Exynos
Same as S7, S7 Edge
Samsung will launch its Galaxy Note 7 today and it will stream events. The latest info is that the phone comes with Exynos 8890, the similar to what we’ve seen in S7 and S7 Edge but we have heard that there will be a Snapdragon version too.
LG to launch V20 in September
Android 7.0 Nougat and Snapdragon 821
LG has confirmed that the successor to the V10 called the V20 will launch in September with Android Nougat 7.0. This is, most likely, one more Snapdragon 821 design win.
10nm Snapdragon is taped out
Qualcomm's CEO confirmed it
Last week Qualcomm’s CEO confirmed to its investors that the company has taped out its 10nm system on a chip (SoC).
Tesla fires Mobileye as auto pilot supplier
Ends in a divorce
Tesla just ended its long term relations with Israeli based Mobileye. This comes as a rather sudden and unexpected shock as Mobileye is the company behind Tesla’s now very famous autopilot.
Nvidia announces 12GB Pascal Titan X
We told you so
Nvidia just sent us an official note that the company has its 11 teraflops, 12 billion transistor Pascal based Titan X card and will start start flogging it on 2 August for $1200.
Qualcomm stock soars on great quarter
Revenues, income and stock rise five percent
Qualcomm has had a better than expected results in its Q3 earnings, beating street and even its own estimates.
The iViz Snapdragon 600 ultrasound tablet saves lives
The SonoSite portable iViz ultrasound system
Technology can save lives, and i was interested to learn that Fujifilm Sonosite had developed a Snapdragon 600 based portable iViz ultrasound system that saved five soldiers' lives in Afghanistan.
Nvidia to make its Tegra Next SoC announcement on August 22
By ex ATI, AMD now Nvidia engineer at Hot Chips
The Hot Chips conference that takes place in the last weeks of August will be a fun place to be. Among many others topics, Nvidia plans to talk about its Tegra-Next System-on-Chip.