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Qualcomm’s new Fingerprint sensors work under glass, under displays, and underwater

Qualcomm is probably best known for making the chips that power smartphones, but the company has also been developing fingerprint sensors for a while. The company’s latest drop the Sense ID name and are just called Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensors. And along with the no-nonsense name come features designed for modern smartphone hardware. For example, there’s […]

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Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Wear 1200 platform for wearables

Qualcomm’s latest smartwatch chip is designed for low-power, always-connected devices. The new Snapdragon Wear 1200 platform is a 28nm chip that features a 1.3 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 processor and support for the new LTE IoT standard. While LTE IoT doesn’t provide the kind of high-speed internet access you get from 4G LTE, you do get […]