Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Hummingbird, TI OMAP, NVIDIA Tegra… you see these names a lot these days, as they’re the chips powering the newest, most powerful Android smartphones and upcoming tablets. But while most of these chips run at clock speeds between 800 MHz and 1.2 GHz, we’ve moved far past the point where you can […]
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Qualcomm: More than 20 tablets in the works
Chip maker Qualcomm reported its quarterly earnings this week, and the company did pretty well for itself, pulling in 39 percent more revenut than the same quarter a year earlier. But even more interesting (for tablet enthusiasts anyway) is news that there are more than 20 different tablets in the works which may ship with […]
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Qualcomm to buy Atheros for over $3 billion
Wow. I thought it was big news when Atheros announced a new wireless chip yesterday that would combine 802.11n and Bluetooth in a small form factor unit for tablets and other mobile devices. Today we have bigger news: Chip-maker Qualcomm is buying Atheros for $3.1 billion. Qualcomm is best known for making low power ARM-based […]
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Next-gen Qualcomm chips to be 5 times faster, use 75% less power
Chip maker Qualcomm has announced plans for an upcoming 28nm chip which the company says will offer 5 times the performance of one of the company’s original Snapdragon chips. At the same time, it will use 75% less energy than today’s chips, which could mean phones, tablets, and other mobile devices with better performance and […]
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Qualcomm’s dual core chips could end up in 10 or more tablets in 2011
Chip-maker Qualcomm is developing dual core versions of its popular Snapdragon ARM-based chips, and Qualcomm president Steve Mollenkopf told investors during a recent earnings call that the company is working with 10 different companies on tablets that could use the upcoming dual core chips. Mollenkopf says it’s too early to say how big the market […]
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Qualcomm Mirasol low power displays coming in early 2011
Qualcomm has been showing off its Mirasol display technology for ages. I got a chance to check out a prototype eBook reader with a Mirasol display at CES in January. But it looks like the displays won’t actually reach the market until early 2011. That’s according to GigaOm’s Om Malik, who caught up with the […]
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Qualcomm’s 1.5GHz dual core chips due out next year
Qualcomm is working on a new 1.5GHz dual core Snapdragon chipset. We’ve known that for a while. What we also know now is that it won’t ship in 2010. Instead, Qualcomm says it it probably won’t be out until close to the end of 2011. On the other hand, we should start seeing devices with […]
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Whatever happened to smartbooks? Tablets
There’s a company in Germany that will tell you Smartbooks have been around for years and will continue to be so — but that company happens to be named Smartbook and it pumps out fairly standard looking notebooks, as well as the occasional tablet. The rest of the tech industry has taken to using the […]
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Qualcomm reportedly investing $2 billion in Mirasol color eReader displays
While Pixel Qi has been grabbing a lot of headlines for its dual-mode LCD displays which can function as full color laptop or tablet screens or low power, high contrast eReader displays, the company isn’t the only game in town. Qualcomm has been working on its own solution: a low power eReader display with a […]
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Qualcomm to launch 1.5GHz dual core ARM-based chip by year’s end?
If you thought the 1GHz ARM-based processors showing up in smartphones like the Droid X and Samsung Galaxy S are ridiculously fast for low power chips, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Computer World reports that chip maker Qualcomm is set to introduce its 1.5GHz dual core chips in the fourth quarter of 2010. The new […]