Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) It’s looking increasingly likely that Wi-Fi 7 will be an option next year. This week, Qualcomm joined the list of chipmakers detailing Wi fi 7 products they expect to be available to homes and businesses soon. The Wifi Alliance, which makes Wi-Fi standards and includes Qualcomm as a member, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to commandeer millions of Android devices equipped with mobile chipsets made by Qualcomm and MediaTek. The vulnerability resided in ALAC—short for Apple Lossless Audio Codec and also known as Apple Lossless—which is an audio format introduced by Apple in […]
Enlarge / A sample chiplet design, with the CPU dies made with a more advanced manufacturing process and the chipset and some other functions made on older, cheaper processes. (credit: Universal Chipset Interconnect Express) Some of the CPU industry’s heaviest hitters—including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung—are banding together to define a new standard […]
The Facebook and Instagram parent remains too much at the mercy of Apple and Google, requiring a big gamble on the future. Read More
Enlarge / The full Polestar 3 design isn’t revealed yet, but Volvo released this camouflaged photo. (credit: Volvo) Volvo, Qualcomm, Google are teaming up to make car infotainment even more smartphone-like than ever. If Wintel (Windows plus Intel) is the default software+hardware combo of the PC era, then the smartphone equivalent has got to be Android […]
Sony, Samsung, and chip makers created buzz ahead of the annual tech convention in Las Vegas. Read More
Enlarge Microsoft has created versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 that run on ARM chips, but to date, the company has not been interested in selling Windows on ARM licenses to anyone some other than PC builders. The ARM versions of Windows can run on things like the Raspberry Pi or in virtualization apps […]
Enlarge / The ECS LIVA QC710 mini PC. (credit: ECS) Developers interested in testing out the ARM versions of Windows haven’t had much flexibility when it comes to testing hardware. On one end of the spectrum are $1, 000-ish tablets like the Surface Pro X , which, especially for indie developers, is a lot of […]
The Huawei P50 Pro, in several colors. Despite facing down a global chip shortage, a US export ban, and plummeting market share , Huawei is still plowing ahead and announcing its next flagship smartphone, the Huawei P50 Pro. The phone, which was teased back in June , is the particular company’s first smartphone launching with […]
Intel’s graph of the past and future. [credit: Intel ] Earlier this year, Intel got a new CEO and kicked off a new business plan that would open its foundries to other chip-design firms, just like how TSMC and Samsung Semiconductor operate. At its “Intel Accelerated” event today, the company laid out a roadmap for its […]