Qualcomm announces Windows laptop AI-powered chip to outpace Apple's Mac processors in select tasks
1 year, 5 months ago

Qualcomm announces Windows laptop AI-powered chip to outpace Apple's Mac processors in select tasks

Live Mint  

Demand for laptops with AI capabilities expected to increase, driven by applications like image generation Qualcomm detailed a chip for Microsoft Windows-based laptops on Tuesday, mentioning its superiority in certain tasks over Apple's Mac computer chips, as per Reuters. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} This revelation follows a recent Reuters report indicating that Microsoft has urged Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices to develop new chips capable of accommodating a range of innovative AI features in Windows, the world's most widely used PC operating system. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} Reportedly, Qualcomm asserted that its X Elite chip outpaces Apple's M2 Max chip in certain tasks and exhibits superior energy efficiency when compared to both Apple and Intel PC chips. What stands out as the most significant feature, as emphasized by Qualcomm Senior Vice President Alex Katouzian, is the chip's capability to effectively process artificial intelligence models boasting 13 billion parameters.

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Apple to launch new MacBook Air with M4 chip next month
1 month, 1 week ago

Apple to launch new MacBook Air with M4 chip next month

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Reports suggest that Apple has already started clearing out existing MacBook Air stock, a strong indication that the new models are just around the corner. A major hardware upgrade on the way Reports suggest that Apple has already started clearing out existing MacBook Air stock, a strong indication that the new models are just around the corner. Apple’s move towards …

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 6 chip sharpens gaming & AI for budget Android phones
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 6 chip sharpens gaming & AI for budget Android phones

Hindustan Times  

Qualcomm’s focus on making affordable Android phones more capable, remains steadily consistent. The chipmaker has announced a new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chip for budget Android smartphones, with key focus on gaming and artificial intelligence applications; this ideally will determine a much higher performance baseline than the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip that it succeeds. Generational performance gains between the …

Next-Gen Snapdragon 8 Elite: Unleash the Power of AI and Flagship Performance
5 months ago

Next-Gen Snapdragon 8 Elite: Unleash the Power of AI and Flagship Performance

Live Mint  

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite is a new top-of-the-line flagship smartphone that will be unveiled at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It is powered by a second-generation Oryon chip that has been optimized for mobile use. The chip has two 'prime' cores running at 4.3GHz and six performance cores running at 3.53GHz, forgoing the efficiency cores of yore to deliver …

Snapdragon 8 Elite: Unleash the Power of AI and Beyond
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5 months, 1 week ago

Snapdragon 8 Elite: Unleash the Power of AI and Beyond

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite is a powerful mobile chip that challenges Apple's A18 Pro. The chip features advanced AI capabilities, improved performance, and enhanced connectivity. It offers a 45% increase in performance and energy efficiency thanks to the new Hexagon NPU. The Snapdragon 8 Elite also supports large language models, enabling AI-powered apps to process voice commands, generate text, and …

Qualcomm Unleashes Innovative Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip for AI, Signaling Expansion into Mobile Phone Market
5 months, 1 week ago

Qualcomm Unleashes Innovative Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip for AI, Signaling Expansion into Mobile Phone Market

The Hindu  

Qualcomm unveils a new chip for AI, which will be used in its mobile phone chips. The chip, called Snapdragon 8 Elite, is designed to handle generative AI tasks, such as generating images and text. The chip will be available to developers and will offer special tools beyond the ones already available in Alphabet's Android operating system.

Qualcomm expands Snapdragon X series for AI PCs
11 months, 1 week ago

Qualcomm expands Snapdragon X series for AI PCs

India TV News  

Qualcomm, a popular chip maker in the world has announced to expand its Snapdragon X Series portfolio. Original equipment manufacturers are expected to launch PCs powered by Snapdragon X Plus alongside devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite, starting mid-2024. Snapdragon X Plus features ‘Qualcomm Oryon CPU’, a custom-integrated processor that delivers up to 37 per cent faster performance compared to …

Microsoft Feels It Can Finally Beat Apple With Its Big Plans For The PC Market: What We Know
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Microsoft Feels It Can Finally Beat Apple With Its Big Plans For The PC Market: What We Know

News 18  

Microsoft is going all in on AI PCs in 2024 and going forward and the company is now even confident of challenging Apple’s M-series silicone with its own focus on AI hardware and software integration. Reports this week suggest Microsoft is banking on the Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite to give Windows PCs the performance that not only matches but …

A snowball effect in personal tech: Looking ahead into 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

A snowball effect in personal tech: Looking ahead into 2024

Hindustan Times  

Part of the speed at which personal technology is evolving has to do with need, but much of it is pure momentum. Early 2024 will see the release of the first laptops powered by Intel’s new, consumer-focused Core Ultra chips. Canva Magic Studio, the Adobe Firefly generator, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot illustrate a growing number of tools and use-cases that …

Qualcomm unveils new PC laptop chip with AI features for 2024
1 year, 5 months ago

Qualcomm unveils new PC laptop chip with AI features for 2024

The Hindu  

Qualcomm on Tuesday gave details about a chip for Microsoft Windows-based laptops that it claims will be faster at some tasks than Apple's chips for Mac computers. Qualcomm executives said the company's new Snapdragon Elite X chip will be available in laptops starting next year and has been redesigned to better handle artificial intelligence tasks like summarizing emails, writing text …

Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
1 year, 5 months ago

Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

The Hindu  

Nvidia dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units that would run Microsoft’s Windows operating system and use technology from Arm Holdings, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Microsoft's plans take aim at Apple, which has nearly doubled its market share in the three years since releasing its own Arm-based …

Qualcomm Working On Its Apple M2 Rival, Could Launch Later This Year
2 years, 2 months ago

Qualcomm Working On Its Apple M2 Rival, Could Launch Later This Year

News 18  

Qualcomm is a chipset behemoth in the mobile sector but the company is equally keen on building its profile in the PC industry, where it will soon have rival hardware to go up against the Apple M2 silicone. Qualcomm is working on the chipset which is likely to be included in the Snapdragon 8cx Gen series as per reports. This …

Qualcomm brings Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processors
2 years, 10 months ago

Qualcomm brings Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processors

Live Mint  

Qualcomm has today announced its latest lineup of mobile platforms, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, to power the next generation of premium and high-tier Android smartphones. We implement these features first in our Snapdragon 8-series and then waterfall them down our mobile roadmap," said Christopher Patrick, senior vice president and general manager, mobile handsets, Qualcomm Technologies, …

Intel's first foray into the metaverse will be software to use others' chips
3 years, 3 months ago

Intel's first foray into the metaverse will be software to use others' chips

The Hindu  

In their first public comments on its strategy for tapping into the "metaverse," Intel Corp executives said the firm is working on software that will help laptops tap into computing power from other devices, including chips from its rivals. The trend is expected to require vastly more computing power, and firms like Nvidia Corp, which makes chips and software used …

Apple’s New MacBook Pro Chips Flex the Power of Custom Silicon
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple’s New MacBook Pro Chips Flex the Power of Custom Silicon

Wired  

The combination of the Windows operating system and Intel chips was once so successful that the duo was referred to as “Wintel.” Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops, revealed Monday, show just how much things have changed. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said the MacOS and software apps had been recrafted to get the most out of …

Intel Suddenly Trying To Look Cool And Attack Apple Is All Desperation, And Is Backfiring
4 years ago

Intel Suddenly Trying To Look Cool And Attack Apple Is All Desperation, And Is Backfiring

News 18  

A few days ago, Intel released a series of video adverts on YouTube, everyone’s favorite platform to while away time. They are titled “Justin Gets Real”, biggest achievement of these ads may just be that they’ve managed to get the former star of Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads, Justin Long on board. Among a lot of comments that also invoke …

After Microsoft, Now Intel Is Mocking Apple M1 Mac For Everything it Lacks
4 years, 1 month ago

After Microsoft, Now Intel Is Mocking Apple M1 Mac For Everything it Lacks

News 18  

Apple announced the launch of Apple M1 chipset last year that powers the new line of Apple MacBooks and Mac mini – therefore, departing from Intel CPUs after nearly 15 years of collaboration. Intel’s latest jibe comes weeks after Microsoft released an advert mocking Apple Macs for lacking touch support and more for the price tag the notebooks come with. …

How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the mighty M1 chip
4 years, 3 months ago

How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the mighty M1 chip

Wired  

When Apple announced the transition to its own Apple Silicon chips for its new Mac line, few could’ve imagined the extent of praise and plaudits that followed the release of the hardware. Several manufacturers have already taken their own steps into similar territory as the first Apple Silicon chip, from Intel’s Lakefield processors, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips as well as Microsoft’s …

What went into Apple’s new M1 chip?
4 years, 4 months ago

What went into Apple’s new M1 chip?

The Hindu  

At the November 10 ‘One More Thing’ Special Event, streamed virtually from Apple Park, California, Tim Cook and his team at Apple unveiled the first Apple Silicon SoC : M1. Apple states macOS Big Sur is engineered to take full advantage of all the capability and power of M1, delivering a massive boost in performance, astonishing battery life, and even …

Qualcomm aims to take on Nvidia, Intel with new AI chips
5 years, 11 months ago

Qualcomm aims to take on Nvidia, Intel with new AI chips

Firstpost  

Qualcomm to begin testing its new Cloud AI 100 chip with Microsoft Corp, other partners later this year. Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work, aiming to diversify beyond its stronghold in mobile phone chips and into a fast-growing market now dominated by Nvidia Corp and Intel Corp. At an event in San …

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor for PC unveiled: Promises 'Extreme Power'
6 years, 3 months ago

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor for PC unveiled: Promises 'Extreme Power'

India TV News  

Qualcomm, the company known for being the biggest chip supplier for smartphones, on Thursday announced its push into the PC market with a line of chips that are designed to power business machines. The company has introduced a new Snapdragon 8cx processor with a 7nm design that is designed for personal computers. Also, read: Oppo R17 Pro with Snapdragon 710 …

Snapdragon 8cx: Qualcomm’s most powerful chip yet will power the PC of the future
6 years, 3 months ago

Snapdragon 8cx: Qualcomm’s most powerful chip yet will power the PC of the future

Firstpost  

The Snapdragon 8cx is Qualcomm’s most powerful chipset yet and can allegedly take on Intel’s best. Last year’s ACPC platform was announced on the Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform and followed up with an update to the Snapdragon 850 platform, which was essentially a more powerful Snapdragon 845. Today, Qualcomm followed up with what they claim is their most powerful chipset …

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 highlights: Portrait mode in video, huge AI and performance gains
6 years, 3 months ago

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 highlights: Portrait mode in video, huge AI and performance gains

Firstpost  

Great design is one thing, but without an intelligent core, a smartphone is little more than a metal and glass paperweight. According to Qualcomm, the chip will be 45 percent faster in the CPU department, feature a 20 percent faster GPU, a new DSP for 3x faster AI performance and huge improvements to the camera department. While competitors tend to …

New Qualcomm flagship chip to take on Apple A12 processor
6 years, 7 months ago

New Qualcomm flagship chip to take on Apple A12 processor

India TV News  

New Qualcomm flagship chip to take on Apple A12 processor The Snapdragon 855 processor is widely expected to provide better performance, improved battery efficiency and on-board artificial intelligence processing. Global chipset-maker Qualcomm's next flagship processor, which is likely to be Snapdragon 855, will be built on the same 7nm process technology like its rival Apples powerful A12 and Huaweis in-house …

Qualcomm unveils new mobile chips as investors eye Asia
11 years, 4 months ago

Qualcomm unveils new mobile chips as investors eye Asia

Firstpost  

Qualcomm announced a handful of new chips for mobile and networking gadgets ahead of its annual investor event on Wednesday… Qualcomm announced a handful of new chips for mobile and networking gadgets ahead of its annual investor event on Wednesday, where analysts are likely to quiz executives about a shift in smartphone growth from the United States to China and …

MWC 2011: Qualcomm Announces Next Generation of Snapdragon Chipsets
14 years, 1 month ago

MWC 2011: Qualcomm Announces Next Generation of Snapdragon Chipsets

Firstpost  

The new architectures will come in single, dual and quad-core versions and include new Adreno GPU series. Evolving Mobile CPU’s, 1 GHz at a time… Coming in single, dual and quad-core versions, these chipsets will also include the latest Adreno GPUs integrated with an LTE modem. The MSM8960 will also support dual-channel LP DDR memory and will feature the Adreno …

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