Qualcomm Snapdragon platform coverage: flagship, mid-range, PC, and automotive chip launches and deep dives.
In spring 2025, Washington banned and then unbanned Nvidia's H20 chip, causing confusion in AI markets. Despite efforts, trade with China lagged. Amid a…
Qualcomm delivered another strong quarter with its Q3 FY2025 results on July 30, 2025, reporting revenue of $10.98 billion — up 19% year-over-year —…
Qualcomm reported $959 million in automotive revenue for Q1 2025, marking significant growth. Its Snapdragon X line also gained share in premium laptops. With…
Jensen Huang's presence in Beijing coincided with the U.S. Commerce Department's lifting of a chip ban, allowing Nvidia and AMD to resume shipments to…
Malaysia's new 30-day permit window on H100-class accelerators is the part of the directive that actually changes procurement, and the same export coalition is…
The Snapdragon X Elite NPU and NVIDIA's H20 are the same story from opposite ends of the compute stack. Memory bandwidth, not TOPS, decides…
Qualcomm and Xiaomi renewed a 15-year partnership the same week Xiaomi shipped its own XRing O1 chip. The modem gap explains why both tracks…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite walked into Computex 2025 with 9% of the AI PC market. The custom Oryon core and 45-TOPS NPU deliver, but…
Gerard Williams III, former Apple architect, founded Nuvia to adapt Apple’s microarchitecture for a broader market, leading to Qualcomm's Oryon chip. The architecture features…
OnePlus kills the Open 2, and the real story is the OPPO group consolidation, the BBK empire's collapse, and why Motorola, not Samsung, is…
The Snapdragon 8 Elite represented a step-change in on-device AI performance when it launched in late 2024, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insider content has done…
The comparison between Apple's iOS 18 with Apple Intelligence and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite highlights a key architectural difference. Apple's system relies on cloud…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2024 delivered something historic: the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company’s first chip featuring a custom Qualcomm Oryon CPU architecture rather than…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insider program has evolved into one of the most distinctive loyalty and community ecosystems in the tech industry. Born out of a…
Qualcomm reported its Q3 FY2024 earnings on July 31, 2024, delivering impressive results that underscored the company’s growing diversification beyond smartphones, a strategic move…
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