All the stories tagged with: qualcomm
AMD to double down on mobility, thin & light
02/02/2012, During its Analyst day, AMD’s CEO Rory Read said that his company would “leverage its PC chips technology” to enter the tablet market. He also said that AMD would stay away from smartphones at the moment, because it is a [...]
Qualcomm Hits Records Revenues in Q1
02/01/2012, Qualcomm has just announced record revenues for the first quarter of 2012 (Q1 2012), which is no small feat given that the company is already flying high. For comparison, the revenues of $4.68B are up 14% from last quarter, and [...]
Kobee Jin Yong Reader gets a Mirasol display
01/30/2012, At the Taipei International Book Fair, Qualcomm has announced that Kobee has selected the Mirasol display technology for their Jin Yong Reader (the reader has been named after Jin Young, a popular author in China ). The tablet features a [...]
Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processor shows up in benchmark results
01/30/2012, The folks over at Engadget took a look at the Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processor when they roamed the showfloors at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, and someone else from Engadget came up with an outing of the processor using [...]
Qualcomm owns a game studio, will release flagship title annually
01/27/2012, Who would have thought that a company like Qualcomm would actually own a game studio? And here I was, under my comfortable coconut shell, thinking that processors were the staple of Qualcomm’s products. Mobile gamers could be familiar with the [...]
Wanted: Star Trek Tricorder
01/12/2012, [CES 2012] I would suppose that the presence of a Star Trek Tricorder in our universe might actually mean doctors could end up less relevant, although specialists and surgeons would still be in demand. Having said that, there is a [...]
Bambook Sunflower: the first mirasol display e-reader
01/10/2012, [CES 2012] Qualcomm’s mirasol display has been announced quite a while ago but we have yet to see it in products this side of the world, however that may all change soon. Today Qualcomm MEMS Technologies and The Shanghai Nutshell [...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon GameCommand to launch next week
01/05/2012, Remember the Tegra Zone competitor that Qualcomm announced in November last year? It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about it, but it looks like Snapdragon GameCommand is about to go live. According to a press release issued today, the Qualcomm [...]
Qualcomm supports dual GPS+GLONASS positioning
12/15/2011, Qualcomm has just announced the support of GLONASS, a global positioning system developed and operated by the Russian government. GLONASS is a network of 24 satellites that basically perform the same job than the American GPS system. However, Qualcomm can [...]
NVIDIA, Qualcomm,TI to supply ARM processors for Windows 8 tablets?
12/06/2011, Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform is expected to be both a desktop software and a mobile platform for tablet as well, and if Digitimes’ latest piece of rumor is to be believed, it seems that we can expect a variety of [...]
HTC to focus on quad-core devices in 2012
11/21/2011, We’ve previously heard rumors about HTC’s upcoming quad-core devices, but it looks like the company will have a lot more of those in store for us. According to DigiTimes’ industry sources, HTC will focus on producing quad-core tablets and smartphones [...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon GameCommand announced
11/16/2011, NVIDIA has the Tegra Zone, for selling Tegra-optimized games, and now it looks like Qualcomm is taking the same route with its latest app. Called Snapdragon GameCommand, the app will let users of Snapdragon Android phones quickly and easily look [...]
Mirasol displays might extend Android phone battery life to days
11/15/2011, I have gone through a few Android-powered smartphones from the HTC Desire to the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Live Walkman, Sony Ericsson Arc S, and now, the HTC Sensation, and have found one common denominator (no, if you answered [...]
