…contracts with companies like Qualcomm and Apple. While Samsung has also signed deals with both AMD and Nvidia, neither of those companies moves nearly as much hardware as mobile SoC manufacturers -- which…
…Samsung has long-term foundry customers such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, and IBM, and it's built logic for Apple in the past. But a large percentage of its manufacturing capacity is dedicated…
…Sony has VR plans for the PlayStation 4, Qualcomm claims VR capabilities are baked into its upcoming Snapdragon 820 , and both AMD and Nvidia are planning marketing blitzes of their own. It…
…ARM and Android have become ubiquitous precisely because they allow Samsung, Qualcomm, TI, and Nvidia to reap the benefits of research and product development without being directly responsible for the implementation. Intel…
…While GPUs used to serve as the early "pipecleaner" designs for new nodes, Apple and Qualcomm have filled that role for several years now. AMD moved to 7nm roughly 10 months after…
…By bringing DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.4, OpenGL ES 3.0, hardware tessellation, and CUDA 5 support to smartphones, developers can write one game for a console, and then easily port it…
…The older Cortex-A9 can’t keep up with newer architectures based on x86 and Qualcomm’s custom Krait, but Cortex-A15 needs a lot of power and a large chip to…
…Custom chips from Qualcomm and Apple have taken the wind out of A9-based hardware in recent months, which makes the Cortex-A15's debut downright timely. The best way to understand…
…Putting aside the fact that it will almost certainly not reach its funding goal (current estimates put the total at around $20 million after 31 days), there are a slew of hardware…
…increases to continue and hardware to eventually become difficult to find, which would open up a commensurately greater opportunity for the company's rivals, potentially including Qualcomm. But so far, the only…