Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC will bring "premium performance" to mid-range smartphones
Everything is better, except for Qualcomm's increasingly confusing mobile chip branding
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite outperforms AMD's Radeon 780M in 3DMark
Clearly beating mobile x86 processors in performance and efficiency, but Apple remains ahead
PC CPUs are getting more interesting, and competition is coming
Why it matters: Five years ago there were only two companies that made CPUs, today there are a dozen. Most of the new entrants went after the big, profitable data center market, but now competitors are coming for PCs. Nvidia and AMD are reportedly preparing Arm-based CPUs for PCs. With Microsoft opening up the market for Arm laptop CPUs, this spells bad news for Qualcomm today, and potentially bad news for Intel over the very long term.
Qualcomm's next-gen Arm SoC runs Windows, can beat Intel and Apple in some applications and efficiency
Something to look forward to: After years of monotony and relative stasis in the PC industry, things are starting to change. And man, it's getting exciting again! Earlier this year, AMD launched the Ryzen 7040, the first PC SoC with a built-in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) – otherwise known as an AI accelerator. Then a few weeks ago, Intel debuted its Core Ultra chip featuring its own AI accelerator. Now Qualcomm is putting an exclamation point on the AI PC trend with the launch of its Snapdragon X Elite SoC for PCs.
Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Wear OS-based wearable devices
Highly anticipated: After betting on the future of RISC-V with an industry-wide alliance, Qualcomm is now bringing its first chip based on the open-source architecture to the mass market. The American chipmaker will join Google in creating a new hardware platform for the Wear OS system.
CPU rumor mill: New details about Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm's roadmaps
Future desktop and mobile chip lineups detailed
Upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon X SoCs aim to match Apple's M-series performance and efficiency
An "inflection point for the PC industry"
Qualcomm lives to fight another day
There is also the potential for Apple and Qualcomm to mend fences. Maybe.
Apple extends Qualcomm modem deal through 2026
Apple buys more time for its in-house 5G modem project
Looking deeper into Arm's IPO prospects: First and second impressions
The search for more money
Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon G-series chips for handheld game consoles
The new lineup comprises three chips, including the successor to the G3X Gen 1
Five chipmakers bet their money on the future of RISC-V
A new joint effort to accelerate the adoption of the RISC-V open architecture
Qualcomm's quarterly results mirror broader smartphone market decline
Revenues are down, profits have halved, and the future is uncertain
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 entry-level chipset built on 4nm process node
More-efficient budget phones
Hybrid AI concept would move AI generation from the cloud to our devices
Distributed computing for generative AI
Qualcomm agrees to buy auto-safety chipmaker Autotalks
Qualcomm paid as much as $400 million, sources say
Qualcomm Snapdragon to bring resolution upscaling to mobile gaming
Adreno GPUs can save performance and battery life with super resolution
With no easy path to replace Apple revenue, can Qualcomm ever grow again?
Hoping your competitor fails is not a great strategy
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 brings faster performance, better photography, and more
The new chip is coming to smartphones later this month
Massive Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leak reveals surprising new core configuration and more
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 could be a big leap in mobile processing
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC could have higher clock speeds than Apple's A17 Bionic
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 promises to be a beast
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC features iSIM silicon to replace SIM cards and eSIM chips
Saving space and money for manufacturers, removing portability for users
Opinion: Semis Top Five
Editor's take: The industry has changed a lot in the eight years since we wrote our first analysis on the top five chip companies. We anticipated semis were no longer a growth industry and the only way for companies to keep growing was to win market share (hard) or buy other companies. This is especially true in semiconductors because most of these companies outsource their manufacturing to foundries like TSMC and GlobalFoundries.
Qualcomm ran a complete Stable Diffusion AI model on an Android phone
Optimizations led to a completely offline image generation experience