Qualcomm abandons Guizhou venture
Walks away from $570 million joint investment
A joint venture between US smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and China’s Guizhou province will shut down by the end of the month.
Qualcomm announces AI datacenter Cloud AI 100 SoC
Series of products in 2020
Last week Qualcomm announced a Cloud AI 100 data accelerator targeting future AI loads in big data centers. Facebook and Microsoft seem to be interested as they presented at the Qualcomm AI events in San Francisco.
Late 2019, early 2020 high-end mobile chips will be 7nm
Huawei, Qualcomm, Apple
TSMC has announced that it is doing a test production of 5nm EUV chips, but real production starts in 2020. A long-term investigation leads us to believe that most chips launching in the latter part of this year or early next year will, unlike the UK, remain on 7nm.
Intel walks away from 5G smartphone modem
Apple to go alternatives
In a surprising twist of events, Intel has just announced that it plans to exit the 5G Smartphone modem business. The surprising announcement happened just hours after Apple announced that it had settled its years of legal battles against Qualcomm.
Apple, Qualcomm fire lawyers, make up and kiss
Nothing hurts any more...
The continuing dispute between Qualcomm and Apple has resulted in both giant firms stalling the divorce agreement and patching things up.
Apple vs. Qualcomm trial begins
Billions of dollars at stake
The multi-billion dollar Apple and Qualcomm five-week court case has opened in San Diego that'll determine whether Qualcomm operates a smartphone modem chip monopoly and charges too much in licensing fees.
Qualcomm reveals AI ready chips
Gunning for Nvidia
Chipmaker Qualcomm revamped the midrange products in its system-on-chip portfolio with faster graphics, more power efficient cores, and Nvidia beating AI functions.
Intel headhunts Qualcomm’s George Davis
Gets a new chief financial officer
Intel announced the appointment of George Davis as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).
Apple 7, 8, 10, Xs and Xr infringe Qualcomm patent
Judge recommends ban on some iPhones
ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara has declared some verdicts. Apple is infringing one of three patents and she recommends a ban on iPhones manufactured in China being imported into the USA. This is a hardware patent 674 and it doesn’t look that there is a quick workaround.
South Korean watchdog cuts Qualcomm fine
Only $200 million now
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has lowered a decade-old penalty imposed on US chipmaker Qualcomm by 18 percent to $200 million.