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Scott McGregor, the CEO of Broadcom, recently told attendees at the 2011 Bernstein Conference that he predicts his company and Qualcomm will likely be the two major players supplying handset vendors with mobile chips in the foreseeable future. His exact words: “There are only two companies that I am aware of that have the breadth…
The bean counters at iSuppli just released a report that says revenues from devices that utilize wireless charging are set to hit $885.8 million this year, which is an increase of 616% compared to 2010 figures. If you’re having a hard time trying to think of any products on the market that actually even charge…
I’m here at the Qualcomm Uplinq conference and you just know the company is touting its Snapdragon processor. Senior VP Rob Chandhok was confident enough to say that the company’s dual-core Snapdragon CPUs will be able to outperform competitors’ quad-core A9 CPUs. In a wide-ranging interview, Chandhok didn’t mention the competition by name but he…
We’ve known for quite some time now that NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor is the bee’s knees. It has found its way into dozens of Android smartphones and tablets, and for good reason, too: it powers the platform quite well. On the other hand, Intel’s Atom processor might be a shade behind. A video showing the…
I’m live here at the Qualcomm Uplinq conference and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs just said that the quad-core Snapdragon processor is “coming soon.” That’s not much of a surprise but you have to wonder when this will actually land in products and if it will be good enough to keep up with the competition.…
Mobile media hogs will be happy to hear that soon they’ll be able to bump up their 32 GB memory cards to 64 GB. A little-known manufacturer, Kingmax, has announced that their class 6 microSD XC 64 GB card recently.the card meets SD 3.0 specifications, and includes an Error Correction Code that fixes data errors…
A handful of rumors have been flying around about Amazon’s entrance into the tablet space. Both rumored tablets, the Coyote and Hollywood, may ship with NVIDIA processors (Tegra 2 & Kal-El) and now we’re hearing that these tablets could land sometime this holiday season and range from $349 to $449. Amazon’s tablets stand a good…
Nokia is getting set to build Windows Phone devices after its partnership with Microsoft was announced some time ago, and it looks like Qualcomm will be powering the devices. Of course, options do seem limited when Qualcomm has been working closely with Microsoft for processors in WP7 devices. However, Nokia did state that it was…
OmniVision, makers of the camera sensors that find their way inside many of the smartphones and tablets out on the market, have just announced their latest creation, the OV5690. We know, terrible product name, but here’s what makes it special: It takes 5 megapixel photos using a second generation backside illumination architecture, so low light…
When the first Amazon Kindle was released back in November 2007, no one thought that it would become the huge success that it is today. Amazon’s philosophy of letting you read a Kindle book on whatever device you own, whether it be one of their dedicated electronic ink readers or your smartphone, has helped propel…