Qualcomm has unveiled its next flagship mobile chip architecture, highlighting three main components: the Oryon CPU reaching 5GHz, Adreno GPU incorporating AI-dedicated units, and…
Qualcomm's latest mobile CPU features a 50% increase in Large Shared Memory in its Hexagon NPU, emphasizing memory efficiency amid soaring RAM costs. This…
Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino aims to transform robotics by integrating edge AI with real-time control on a single board. The new Uno Q and…
Cristiano Amon announced that Samsung's Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 now use Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite, marking a shift from Samsung's Exynos…
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 pushed the flagship's on-device generative AI down a full price tier, and looking back from 2026 that quiet move…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite shipped this spring and the reviews are in: up to 18 cores at 5.0 GHz, an 80 TOPS NPU, and…
Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 packs an 18-core Oryon CPU, up to 700 TOPS, a safety island, and dense sensor I/O. A voice-driven architecture deep dive,…
The Snapdragon X Elite owned the entire ARM Windows lane and still took barely 1.5% of the market. A teardown of Oryon, the AI…
A silicon-level read on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: the all-Oryon 2+6 CPU, the Adreno GPU, the Hexagon NPU, and the TOPS number…
Jensen Huang navigated U.S.-China trade dynamics as Nvidia's export licenses for the H20 chip were contingent on a rare earth deal. Unlike Nvidia’s precarious…
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…
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