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It has Wear OS 4, new chip and better apps – but still lags behind rivals on workouts and can’t be repaired

We're here in sunny Hawaii for day two of Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit. Yesterday, of course, was the company's prime keynote, where they announced their forthcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC for laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for smartphones. As well, the company gave us our first…

The new handsets are set to borrow the best camera tricks from Google's Pixel phones and boast a new AI chatbot to boot

Fast memory is crucial for the performance of high-end system-on-chips that are getting more sophisticated every year. When it comes to smartphones, the most obvious way to boost memory performance is to push its data transfer rate. Apparently, this is what Micron and SK Hynix are doing with their new…

Apple's release of Arm-based system-on-chips for its desktops and laptops three years ago demonstrated that such processors could offer competitive performance and power consumption. On the Windows-based PC front, only Qualcomm has offered Arm-based SoCs for notebooks in recent years, but it looks like it will soon be joined by…

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite mobile CPU platform could be the next big thing for laptops — here's everything you need to know.

While Qualcomm has become wildly successful in the Arm SoC market for Android smartphones, their efforts to parlay that into success in other markets has eluded them so far. The company has produced several generations of chips for Windows-on-Arm laptops, and while each has incrementally improved on matters, it’s not…

An exclusivity agreement between Microsoft and Qualcomm is coming to end, opening the door to a new crop of Arm CPUs for Windows personal computers.

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Working together, the two companies will be bootstrapping a RISC-V ecosystem for Wear OS devices, with Qualcomm providing the…

Chip stocks fell yesterday after the U.S. Commerce Department announced new restrictions on exports of high-end AI chips to China. However, while Nvidia appears to be the hardest hit by this latest move, other companies could also stand to lose significantly if the chip war escalates.

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