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Qualcomm Officially Unveils the Snapdragon 820 Processor
Qualcomm has officially unveiled its new Snapdragon 820 Processor at an event in New York City. A number of leaks have already revealed the Snapdragon 820’s benchmark, as well as rumours that the chip is prone to overheating. “As one of the most cutting-edge mobile processors ever created,” Qualcomm’s site…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Also Plagued by Overheating Issues
Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 810 processor has been marred by overheating issues which made a number of premium handsets uncomfortable to use during games or intensive tasks. Thankfully, this has been somewhat resolved in the latest version of Android but continues to add a negative aspect to many devices. Given the negative…
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HTC Announces A9 Smartphone
HTC has unveiled the A9 smartphone which features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 Octa-core 64-bit processor with four cores clocked at 1.5GHz while the other four operate at 1.2GHz. The handset supports NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4GHz/5GHz and opts for Dolby Hi-Res Audio. In terms of storage, the base unit…
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Court Rules NVIDIA Did Not Invent the GPU
NVIDIA has lost two patent infringement lawsuits that accused Samsung of building GPUs without its permission – effectively claiming that NVIDIA itself invented the GPU – with a third suit being thrown out as invalid. The US International Trade Commission has ruled that Samsung did not infringe on NVIDIA’s patents…
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Qualcomm Unveils 24 Core ARM Server Processor
Ever since ARM took over the mobile world, we’ve been hearing about how the RISC architecture was trying to expand into other higher performance areas. While ARM first entered the server world via relatively weaker micro-servers, it looks like performance options are coming along soon. Qualcomm, one of the major ARM partners…
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ITC Court Rules in Favour of Samsung in Nvidia Patent Dispute
Nvidia and Samsung have been locked in a bit of a patent war for a while now, with Nvidia filing a class action lawsuit claiming that they effectively invented the modern 3D GPU and that Samsung is using it without their permission. Of course, Samsung wasn’t going to back down…
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Amazon India Lists Nexus 5X Specifications Before Official Announcement
Amazon India has mistakenly listed the Nexus 5X prior to Google’s official announcement and provides key information about the handset’s technical capabilities. According to the store page, the Nexus 5X features a 5.2-inch full HD display with a pixel density of 423ppi. Additionally, the device utilizes a Snapdragon 808 processor…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs 810 Compared in Leaked Benchmark
The Snapdragon 810 is Qualcomm’s flagship mobile chip and used in a variety of high-end handsets including the LG Flex 2, One Plus 2 and Sony Xperia Z5 Premium. However, many of these devices suffer from overheating and throttling issues on Android 5.0. Thankfully, this has been somewhat fixed in…
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Qualcomm Cuts Staff and Mulls Break Up after Profits Drop 50%
After years of dominating the mobile SoC industry, Qualcomm has suffered a pretty bad quarter. Compared to the same time last year in 2014, the firm has earned 47% less profit which means they made about half as much as they did the year before. Interestingly, the stock market has…
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Marshall Announces Their Very First Music Dedicated Smartphone
When you hear of Marshall, you are thinking about speakers, headphones or dedicated music gadgets for your instruments. But a Marshall smartphone? That’s something completely new and somewhat interesting. While Marshall is just ‘borrowing’ the name and not building the actual handset, the thing itself looks pretty good. However, the…
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Qualcomm Looks to Acquire AMD
We all know that AMD is struggling in the current market place, NVIDIA keeps crushing every graphics card they release and Intel are so efficient with releasing more powerful processors that AMD are just running in circles. Intel release on a Tick Tock schedule, while AMD seem to produce on…
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Google Android One Program Lands in Europe
Google’s Android One, a standard created for Android systems, mainly targeted at a range of customers looking forward to buying their first smartphone. The devices are usually low-end and run the latest version of Android. This program is already up and running in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Philippines and Indonesia. Google has…
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NVIDIA to ‘Wind Down’ Icera Operations
NVIDIA, graphical dominator in the enthusiast market; has decided to pull out of its lesser known smartphone chip design and manufacturing. This follows the purchase of Icera in 2011 to bring NVIDIA powered technology to the smartphone sector. Taken directly from the NVIDIA website: “NVIDIA today announced that it will…
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Sony Unveils Xperia Z4
Sony have unveiled the latest phone in their Z range.The announcement arrived on their Japanese website outlining the specs for the new device. The Z4 will have a 5.2-inch, HD display and is 6.9mm thick. The device will weigh 144 grams and contains a 1920*1080 resolution screen. Sony have made…
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Nvidia Wins Round One in Lawsuit Against Samsung and Qualcomm
It’s still early days in the lawsuit launched by Nvidia against rival chipmakers Samsung and Qualcomm for infringing on seven of its patents, but the company can now claim its first victory after the International Trade Commission has returned a pretrial claim construction ruling, also known as a Markman ruling. “We’re…
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