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Apple Files $1B Lawsuit Against iPhone Partner Qualcomm
Apple has filed a $1 Billion lawsuit against Qualcomm, the company who makes iPhone’s baseband processor, claiming that they were pressured to exclusively use Qualcomm’s modem technology exclusively for a five year period ending in 2016. This lawsuit is directly related to the US Federal Trade Commision’s anti-trust filing against…
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US FTC Sues Qualcomm Over Anti-Competitive Practices
After being hit hard by both Chinese and South Korean regulators over the past months, American firm Qualcomm is going under the regulatory spotlight once again. This time around, the fight is on their home turf with the FTC. According to the complaint, the SoC maker is withholding their products unless…
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Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 835 SoC
Just before the end of the year, Qualcomm teased their new Snapdragon 835 SoC. Now only would it be a significant update over the current 820 and 821 SoCs, the new chip would also be the first to be designed for and built on Samsung’s new 10nm process. With these…
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South Korea Hits Qualcomm With Record $850M Fine
Every now and then, regulators take a good hard look at a companies practice. Other than the usual targets like Apple and Microsoft, Qualcomm has been facing various investigations from different countries. In a recent development, the South Korean KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission) has fined the American firm a massive…
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Microsoft Brings Windows to ARM For Real
Ever since mobile became a thing, Microsoft has been trying to break into that market. Generally, the company has not been met with great success. One of the major impediments is that mobile devices tend to use ARM chips and not x86. Robbed of their dominance over the x86 market, Microsoft’s…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Reportedly Hits 3 GHz
Earlier in the month, Samsung announced their new 10nm process. One of the first products announced for the new node is Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 835 mobile SoC. During the announcement, no details about the new chip were released. Now we have a new leak that shows off the new direction…
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Qualcomm Unveils 10nm Snapdragon 835 SoC
Since the rise of the mobile sector, the bleeding edge of technology has shifted away from the traditional markets. Gone are the days where the latest fabrication nodes went to CPUs and GPUs first. Today, the mobile SoC is often the first mass produced chip on new process nodes. As…
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Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 Boasts 50% Charge in 5 Minutes
One of the pervasive problems around smartphones is the battery life. While smartphones have taken up an increasing amount of our computing time, this places enormous stress on the battery. One way to solve the problem is with top up charges throughout the day but charging can take away. To get around…
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Dual-Deal Backfires on Apple as Not All iPhone 7 Perform Equally
Not long after the latest Apple mobile phone hit the streets, people started to complain about a poor performance on the iPhone 7 while other people couldn’t reproduce the issue at all. The reason for this is the dual-deal Apple struck with Qualcomm and Intel to have them both provide…
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Millions of Android Devices Potentially at Risk Because of Qualcomm Flaw
A little while ago, a team of researchers from Checkpoint Security has uncovered a total of four vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chips, and it looks like these vulnerabilities could be serious enough to allow hackers to take control of Android devices powered by these chips. The flaws were collectively named “Quadrooter,” and…
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Qualcomm Security Flaw Letting Others Read Your Messages
When it comes to privacy we all like the idea that we can keep some secrets to ourselves. If you write it down in your diary you often have to worry about others reading it, so some decide to share their secrets via their mobile phone with friends. Sadly it…
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Nvidia and Samsung Settle All Patent Disputes
For the last few years, IP and patent wars have waged nearly unabated. Nearly two years ago, Nvidia kicked off a patent infringement case against Samsung and Qualcomm. The patents in question dealt with GPUs, with Nvidia claiming that Samsung and Qualcomm infringed on them. After a long and drawn…
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Linksys Introduces the EA7500 AC1900 MU-MIMO Router
Linksys recently revealed their new line of MAX-STREAM devices capable of Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple Output technology (MU-MIMO) and now they have announced the first of the units becoming available. The newly available router is the Linksys MAX-STREAM AC1900 Dual-Band MU-MIMO Gigabit router (EA7500). The MU-MIMO technology helps to ensure uninterrupted Wi-Fi connectivity…
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Microsoft Will Only Support New Processors on Windows 10
Microsoft has recently stated that security updates for Windows 8 will stop this month, and we all know that leaves people with only two fully supported operating systems for windows. Currently, the choice is now between Windows 10 and Windows 8.1, both options that some people may not like. The…
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Wall Street Analysts Want Qualcomm to Merge with Intel or AMD
Despite being one of the largest firms in the smartphone SoC market, Qualcomm has been seen some trouble recently. Just a few months ago, the firm had considered splitting into separate licencing and manufacturing segments. While that idea silently died a quickly deserved death, it seems like Wall Street still…
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