Qualcomm should be worried in the mid-range segment, as MediaTek announced the Dimensity 8300, which appears to be better than the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (and even the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2) on paper. The most obvious part where the Dimensity 8300 shines is its 1/3/4 CPU layout, where its Cortex-A715 Prime Core runs at […]
This year’s Snapdragon Summit has officially unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as Qualcomm’s new chip that will power 2024 premium flagship phones. While performance improvements are expected compared to the previous-generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Qualcomm is taking cues from Google’s playbook in its big bet on AI. One of the main highlights of […]
We don’t know why tech brands love the letter X: MediaTek used to have its Helio X series chips back in the mid-2010s, and Elon Musk even renamed Twitter to simply X. Qualcomm does use the X designation for its Snapdragon modems, and they just confirmed that their ARM PC chips will be called the […]
Despite that Apple is using its A-series (for iPhones) and M-series (for iPads and Macs) chips on its entire lineup, they don’t have their own 5G modem yet. Apple uses Qualcomm’s 5G chips, and Qualcomm recently announced an updated agreement with Apple where it will supply the latter with Snapdragon 5G chips until 2026. “This […]
Qualcomm made an announcement that they will be holding an event on March 17. Despite already holding the Snapdragon Summit last December 2022, there’s speculation that the said Qualcomm event might unveil the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 (or 7+ Gen 1). Qualcomm has yet to reveal a successor to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (the […]
Haven’t had enough of Drive to Survive? That racing bug get to you? Well, you’d be happy to know that Qualcomm has officially inked a multiyear partnership with the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team. At least now you can say that you have a piece of racing DNA in your device. What’s this all about? According to […]
While Qualcomm has exciting news in the flagship segment with the unveiling of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (where the X90 Pro+ is the first phone to use it), things are very unexciting for the chipmaker in the mid-range segment. Despite announcing the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, only OPPO and Xiaomi actually used it, and […]
Without a doubt, Apple’s M1 chips shocked everyone, as the ARM-based processor proved to offer great performance regardless of what device it is put in. The unique aspect of M1 is that it can be used in phones, tablets, laptops, and even desktops. Qualcomm does make ARM-based processors for laptops, but it’s overall performance is […]
MediaTek, has been making immense strides in the business ever since it launched the Helio G90 series in 2019, and the Dimensity 800 series in 2020. Since then, MediaTek has been beating Qualcomm in the mid-range segment, especially when price-to-performance is concerned. With MediaTek aiming to challenge Qualcomm further in the flagship segment with its Dimensity […]
A week after an alleged spec sheet of the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 was revealed, Qualcomm decided to go ahead and announce not just a new mid-range processor, but also a new entry-level processor with the Snapdragon 4 Gen 1. While it did not detail their CPUs, Qualcomm promised as much as 35% better GPU […]
Samsung made a different approach with the Galaxy S22 series, as it adopted more models using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 over the Exynos 2200 across multiple regions. While we’re expecting to see the Exynos 2300 on the Galaxy S23 series, Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks otherwise and made a statement that Samsung is going to […]
Several years after Qualcomm was accused of antitrust practices–particularly when it paid billions of Dollats to Apple from 2011 to 2016 to only use its chips on iPhones–the US chipmaker won its fight against antitrust regulators in Europe. Qualcomm’s win meant that it will not need to pay the 997 million Euro fine imposed on […]