The new chipset is built on TSMC's 4nm fabrication technology
Last month, MediaTek announced its first SoC for 5G flagship smartphones, the Dimensity 9200. This week, the company has revealed yet another chipset in the lineup: The Dimensity 8200. The new chipset is designed for...
The Industry 4.0 concept is driving the popularity of private 5G networks, which are also being increasingly adopted in the manufacturing and logistics space due to the lower costs of spectrum, Renu Navale, vice president in the Network and Edge Group and general manager...
Viettel began testing commercial 5G services in parts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2019
AMD announced the successful completion of a 5G mobile network field trial with Viettel Group’s R&D arm Viettel High Tech (VHT). AMD supplied its Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices for...
Here we go again. Qualcomm has found itself in the middle of yet another grueling battle. This time with Arm, the chip technology company it has been working with. While no one knows how long this new fight will last, looking back on past...
With strategic branded technology partnerships and its Snapdragon Insiders program, Qualcomm is quickly developing its consumer-facing Snapdragon brand
Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit.
MAUI—In July 2021, Don McGuire was appointed senior vice president and chief marketing officer...
As Qualcomm leverages mobile tech to grow automotive, compute, IoT and XR businesses, AI is seemingly the tie that binds
Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with the Snapdragon Summit.
MAUI—The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit is in its seventh year. Looking back...
Latest Qualcomm flagship mobile platform uses AI to power camera, connectivity, gaming, security and sound
Editor's note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with the Snapdragon Summit.
MAUI—At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm today unveiled its latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen...
The new MediaTek 5G chip offers a different multi-link operation architecture than its competitors
Wi-Fi 7 is about more than speed. For those in the industry, it’s becoming increasingly clear that in order for wireless technology to better address the emerging use cases, it’s...
On September 30, 2022, Qualcomm Inc. quietly filed a counterclaim to Arm’s lawsuit against Qualcomm/Nuvia. It was a long-awaited rebuttal as it seemed Qualcomm had gone dark after the company’s General Counsel, Ann Chaplin, released a brief retort shortly after Arm went very public...
The MediaTek Dimensity 9200 supports seamless switching between mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz connectivity
MediaTek this week unveiled its latest 5G chipset — the Dimensity 9200 — which will take up residence in flagship smartphones. The SoC supports both mmWave 5G and sub-6 GHz connectivity, as...
mmWave 5G Standalone tests saw 7.1 Gbps download, 3.6 millisecond latency
Chinese network equipment vendors CICT Mobile, Nokia Shanghai Bell and ZTE have tested the performance of mmWave 5G Standalone using devices equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System. According to a press...
As automotive architectures evolve to support electrification, Qualcomm focused on automated driving, digital cockpit and vehicle connectivity
Vehicles are evolving very quickly and along multiple vectors—complex systems of cameras, LIDAR, radar and other sensors are being employed for assisted and autonomous driving; digital cockpits are...
The Dimensity 1080 chipset supports sub-6GHz 5G and Wi-Fi 6
MediaTek says its newest chipset, called the Dimensity 1080 (D1080), offers 5G smartphones a “nice performance bump and significantly upgraded camera features.”
When compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 920, the 1080, sports an upgraded...
Executives from BMW, General Motors, Great Wall Motor, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis talk tech partnerships with Qualcomm
At a recent Automotive Investor Day event in New York City, Qualcomm executives updated the company's automotive design win pipeline to $30 billion, and took a deep dive into...
First came the challenge program focused on exploring autonomous, real-time spectrum sharing. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has put together a new program aimed at supporting the foundational computing for more intelligent and capable radios.
Amid current policy conversations about what a...
Mercedes-Benz taps Qualcomm Snapdragon Digital Chassis for digital cockpit and automotive connectivity
Providing its Snapdragon Digital Chassis to the automotive industry has been a major driver of Qualcomm expanding its total addressable market to $700 billion by the end of the decade. Just two months...
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Google have signed an agreement to cooperate on semiconductor development for license-free, domestically produced chips to support technology and product R&D.
The chips will be manufactured in Bloomington, Minnesota, by SkyWater Technology, which has a chip...
The new factory will be built in the Indian PM’s home state of Gujarat
Taiwanese semiconductor giant Foxconn and Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta have announced a deal with the Indian government to build one of the first semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The $19.5...
Qualcomm updates on diversification strategy, including automotive, XR, IoT and PCs
Ahead of an Automotive Investor Day event on Sept. 22, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano provided an update on the company's growth into the automotive sector—along with discussion of market trends around extended reality (XR), the...
Meta and Qualcomm entering into multi-year engineering collaboration to shape metaverse technology
During his keynote presentation at IFA 2022 in Germany, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon continued his characterization of Qualcomm’s technologies as “your ticket to the metaverse,” calling the transition from 2D digital experiences to...
If the courts side with Arm, Qualcomm could be forced to destroy any designs it has produced with the licenses in question
Arm is suing Qualcomm and Nuvia, the startup that Qualcomm acquired in 2021, claiming that the companies violated the licenses they have to...
Qualcomm is looking to leverage growth of cloud to expand reach of connectivity, processing and AI portfolios
Since CEO Cristiano Amon took the helm at Qualcomm, the company--traditionally associated with smartphone technologies--is expanding its focus in an effort to grow total addressable market to $700...
"Growth in 5G adoption" drove $600M in annual wireless revenue – CEO
Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology posted results for its second fiscal quarter on Thursday, with revenues of $1.52 billion for the June quarter, offering adjusted earnings of 57 cents per share. Those numbers were...
Picocom President: “We need a healthy ecosystem of semiconductor vendors in the Open RAN world selling chips that are freely available to anyone that wants to buy them.”
The RAN Intelligent Controller is seen as a key way that Open RAN can provide operators with...
