Drop in market share expected

Taiwanese market research institute TrendForce claims that Samsung's foundry business will lose market share in 2022.

Might be called Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

According to the latest rumor, upcoming Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7 series SoC could end up with four Cortex-A710 and four Cortex-A510 CPU cores.

Snapping the codec from obscurity

Qualcomm’s moves to adopt the open-video codec AV1 could snap the standard out of its funk.

Updated: Counterpoint claims Qualcomm has 55 vs 37 percent

MediaTek might have just beaten out Qualcomm to claim the biggest market share of any chipmaker for Android phones in the United States.

Makes 5G sing

Qualcomm has just unveiled the Snapdragon X70 modem which promises to deliver an even better 5G experience for the next generation of smartphones and tablets.

Taking the fight to Samsung

Details about the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100 Plus chipset have leaked and it appears that the chipmaker wants to take the “wearables” crown from Samsung.

Yield rate too low

Qualcomm has apparently walked away from Samsung for its 4nm process chips because the outfit’s yields were too low.

SM8550 - will support AV1

Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec next year with the SM8550" supporting it.

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25 to 50 percent faster than the Qualcomm counterpart

The GPU inside Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2200 SoC, called the Xclipse 920, is doing quite well, giving some impressive scores in Geekbench benchmarks.