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  • Strong, slow finish for TSMC in 2011

    FinancialTSMC is currently one of the two go-to foundries (the other being Samsung) with enough capacity to cater to fabless designers such as Nvidia, AMD, Xilinx, Altera and Qualcomm.
  • Wintel tablets will demand sky-high prices

    ARM and Qualcommchips are likely to undercut the Wintel alliance for Windows 8 tablets. If they are able to match or beat Intel's specs while costing less to build it will make life interesting for Chipzilla.
  • Imagination Technologies announces PowerVR Series 6

    CES 2012Things are looking even better of late for Imagination, as one of their main competitors, Qualcomm with its Adreno graphics, has surrendered and licensed PowerVR for its forthcoming SoCs.
  • Qualcomm wants PC push

    CES 2012Qualcomm wants to push itself into the mainstream PC space with help from Windows 8.
  • IBM is patent king in 2011 despite Asian dominace

    As well as the automotive industry, mobile and wireless firms saw some movement up the chart with Broadcomm at 17, Qualcomm at 26 and RIM moving into the top 50 at 40.
  • Motorola's Jha explains his conversion to Intel

    CES 2012His comments are a little odd because until now, Jha has been a big fan of Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor. This is hardly surprising as he was in charge of the development of the Snapdragon family of processors when he worked for Qualcomm under CEO Paul Jacobs.
  • Jane Austen comes to Las Vegas

    CES 2012In keynoting news, Paul Jacobs from Qualcomm has already done is keynoting here in Lost Wages, while this afternoon Paul Otellini is expected to go roadmapping and keynoting at the same time.
  • Smart TV hype suggests Android home invasion

    CommentCompanies like Qualcomm are ploughing heaps of cash into R&D, convinced that there will be convergence - eventually tying in with the Internet of Things - where your smartphone will act as the central, personal device for everything else around you.
  • Lenovo unboxes its Google TV

    CES 2012The K91 smart TV comes in 42-inch and 55-inch flavors and it packs LED backlit IPS displays with 3D support and 240hz refresh rate. The OS of choice is Android 4.0, but the TV is based on Qualcomm's 1.5GHz 8060 dual-core processor, not a Marvell chipset.
  • 2012 to become emerging market smartphone battleground

    CES 2012With the proliferation of smartphones in emerging markets, there are major opportunities for the chip industry. Intel realises this and so does Qualcomm, both of which are keen to invest in China and elsewhere. Nokia is still confident its feature phones will keep selling.
  • Rockchip sticks Android on the cloud

    Rockchip is but one of several chipmakers, including Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, which is trying to find uses for Android tablets.
  • Qualcomm and Intel prepare handbags for CES battle

    Nevermind AMD, Intel's real enema is Qualcomm and the word on the street is that we will start to see the gloves come off at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas.
  • Intel leaks Medfield tablet platform

    VR Zonesaid that the chip scores 10,500 in CaffeineMark 3, a Java-based cross-platform benchmark. This is better than Nvidia's Tegra 2, which by comparison, scores just 7,500 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon MSM8260 scores 8,000.
  • TT Docomo to make its own chips

    The main reason for the move is that TT Docomo is not that happy having to to rely on Qualcomm which dominates the market for semiconductors used in smartphones.
  • Intel Medfield nearly ready for prime time

    Talking to Reuters, Bell, who left Palm to join Intel more than a year ago, believes Medfield can hold its own against rival chips offered by the likes of Qualcomm and Nvidia.
  • Qualcomm sells airwaves to AT&T

    AT&T has won approval from US  regulators for its $1.93 billion purchase of Qualcomm airwaves.
  • Qualcomm Mirasol colour display needs volumes to fly

    E-paper using MEMS (microelectromechanical system) colour technology by Qualcomm has already been implemented in a South Korean reader.  But the Qualcomm Mirasol tech comes at a price, even though it holds out promise for the future.
  • Qualcomm slashing prices in China

    Chipmaker Qualcomm is slashing the price of its chipsets in China in a bid to see off low-cost outfits such as MediaTek.

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