It’s not just the bandwidth on mobile networks that slows your mobile browsing down; sometimes it’s the processor that prevents your phone from providing the full and best mobile experience, Steve Mollenkopf, EVP and general manager of CDMA Technologies at Qualcomm, said at Mobilize today. Read More »
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Nine months after Apple introduced the iPad, Qualcomm has finally admitted that the smartbook market it envisioned is essentially dead. Amid much criticism, I explained in January how Apple beat everyone to this market and that it simply wouldn’t matter what features iPad was missing. Read More »
An HTC smartphone with multiple cores is reportedly in the works, based on results found from a benchmark testing website. A powerful chip — likely from Qualcomm — would be welcome in smartphones, but might be better suited to Android tablets compete against Apple’s iPad. Read More »
Qualcomm has much to fear from Intel, which is attempting to gain a foothold in the mobile market even as Qualcomm looks upmarket to computers. However, MediaTek, a Taiwanese baseband provider that today signed an agreement to license LTE technology, should have Qualcomm more worried. Read More »
In an effort to gain a toehold in the smartphone business, Intel is inching closer to acquiring the wireless business of German chip maker, Infineon. Analysts believe that this deal is likely to have a big impact on the wireless chip industry. Read More »
Qualcomm is looking at options for its MediaFLO mobile television service, which represents an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars but never performed as well as the chipmaker hoped. In late June I sat down with Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm’s CEO, who discussed MediaFLO at length. Read More »
Qualcomm is joining Sematech, an organization advancing research for semiconductor manufacturing, and is the first chip company that doesn’t manufacture its chips to do so. When a fabless chip company helps fund R&D on next generation manufacturing, it’s an indication that Moore’s Law is in trouble. Read More »
China Telecom is going forward with a plan to upgrade its existing mobile network to EVDO Rev. B. With 56 million subscribers on the China Telecom network, Qualcomm’s 3G royalty stream will keep earning checks for now, just as the COO had hoped last year. Read More »
The twin assault of powerful mobile chips such as Qualcomm’s new dual core Snapdragons and Google’s Android OS along with the looming spectre of tablets, growing demand for smartphones (and slow shift away from PCs), the decades-old Wintel duopoly is facing its worst crisis. Read More »
Few people are as excited as I am about the coming Long Term Evolution wireless networks, but I experienced a little bit of of a reality check thanks to Qualcomm’s VP of Technology Jou Yu-chuen who said he didn’t see LTE as being widespread until 2014. Read More »
Intel’s Paul Otellini said on Tuesday night that the chip firm would release a dual-core Atom chip during the second quarter. Intel won’t be alone in adding more cores for mobile devices, smartphones could get multiple cores by the end of this year or in 2011. Read More »
Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in India’s upcoming 3G auction. Qualcomm doesn’t want to operate a network – nor does it want to deploy a 3G technology — it wants to jumpstart demand for 4G chips and provide better mobile broadband. Read More »
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