Creating art normally takes skill and dedication, but now it just takes a few keystrokes to create original AI art good enough to win contests. Most of the AI tools you’ve seen have been running on powerful servers in the cloud. Qualcomm just showed what’s possible on a smartphone with …
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Looking at the wearable market today, Apple is way out in the lead with the iconic Apple Watch. It wasn’t always this way, though. Google actually beat Apple to the smartwatch game by more than a year, but lackluster hardware allowed Cupertino to lap everyone else. Google’s wearables might get …
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The Nintendo Switch has proven that handheld game machines have not been totally subsumed by smartphones. Valve is planning to release the Steam Deck, although the timeline has been pushed back. Not to be outdone, Razer is prepping the release of a Qualcomm-powered gaming handheld known as the Snapdragon G3X …
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Qualcomm just unveiled a new high-end 800-series ARM processor, and I know what you’re thinking: Didn’t Qualcomm already announce its 2021 flagship system-on-a-chip (SoC)? It did, but the new Snapdragon 870 will slot in below the flagship Snapdragon 888. The 870 is more akin to last year’s 865, but …
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Qualcomm has announced that it will acquire Nuvia, one of several ARM-based startups we’ve had our eye on for some time. Qualcomm’s purchase of Nuvia caps a several-year saga in which the company has been both all-in on its custom CPU designs and conclusively out of that market. Back …
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Most of the premium Android phones that launch in 2021 will have the latest Snapdragon 888 inside. Qualcomm teased the name of the chip at its Snapdragon Summit yesterday, and now we have all the details. The 888 comes with a new CPU design, integrated 5G, and a massive …
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Slowly but surely, ARM-based processors are finding their way into laptops. Qualcomm announced its 8cx chip for Windows laptops in 2018, but only a few devices have used it. Apple recently confirmed it would design its own ARM-based silicon for upcoming MacBooks, which might push the latest Qualcomm laptop …
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Qualcomm Breaks 3GHz Barrier With Slightly Faster Snapdragon 865 Plus ARM Chip Most of the fancy new 5G phones on the market run on the Snapdragon 865, but that’s old news. Qualcomm has announced a new mobile chip, the Snapdragon 865 Plus. What’s “plus” about it? Well, not as much …
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When Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 835 earlier this year, the general conclusion was that the new core would feature an improved version of the company’s Kryo CPU architecture, with better performance thanks to fine-tuning of that design. It turns out that’s not the path Qualcomm is taking. Kryo: Frozen out The …
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Qualcomm acknowledges that “processor” is an accepted and broadly used generic term for a wide range of products, including ASICs, CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, MICs, and probably at least a few others. It also admits that we already have a term to describe microprocessors that integrate a wide range of functionality, …
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