Qualcomm buys $10 billion of its own shares
Share price rises
Qualcomm has decided to buy back $10 billion of its own stock to replace the previous $15 billion stock repurchase program announced in March 2015, which had $1.2 billion of repurchase authority remaining.
Snapdragon 730 and 710 details leaked
8nm and 10nm 2+6 cores
Qualcomm is expected to launch its 700 series rather soon and the latest leaks describe two rather robust products coming soon. The Snapdragon 700 series was launched by Cristiano Amon, the company’s president at the Mobile World Congress 2018 without going into any details.
Qualcomm promises new Wear chips
Out in Autumn
Qualcomm has promised to update its ageing chips for Wear platforms.
Qualcomm backs Microsoft’s IoT plans
Working together on developer kit
Qualcomm Technologies and Microsoft have announced that they are working together to help customers and developers quickly create IoT solutions like home monitoring cameras, enterprise security cameras and smart home devices that use on-device vision artificial intelligence (AI) in retail, manufacturing and logistics applications.
Qualcomm is ready for Android P
Snapdragon 845, 660 and 636
Qualcomm announced that it plans to fully support Android P on select Snapdragon mobile platform. Having early access, that enabled Qualcomm to optimize its software on Snapdragon 845, 660 and 636 mobile platforms to ensure readiness for OEMs to upgrade to Android P at the time of launch.
Qualcomm allowed to quiz Apple's Eddy Cue and Chief Executive Tim Cook
Could prove crucial
A court has allowed Qualcomm to depose Apple services chief Eddy Cue in addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook as part of its case against the fruity cargo cult
Snapdragon 845 PCs ready for holiday season
Faster than the SoC in phones
Qualcomm and Microsoft helped its partners to release the first generation of the Snapdragon 835 on Windows 10 and it is almost time for the second generation.
Oculus Go is out in 23 countries
$199 in the US, €219 in Europe
the Facebook announced Oculus Go standalone VR back in October and yesterday, at the F8 conference, the company announced that it started shipping it to 23 countries.
Qualcomm adjusts its licensing model
Calming conflict
Qualcomm has broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, which could sort out some of its conflicts with regulators.
Apple can't dump Qualcomm
Intel is not ready to fill the gap
Fruity cargo cult Apple, which has been refusing to pay what it owes Qualcomm because it is asking too much might have no choice, according to a new report.