At an event today, Qualcomm and many of its partners made big announcements of technology and products that will be bringing Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi, to a broader market much faster than you may have expected.
Around six months into its life cycle, the Snapdragon 855 is getting a sequel in the form of the Snapdragon 855 Plus — offering big improvements for gaming.
While Qualcomm is readying the powerful Snapdragon 8cx for always-connected PCs, it turns out it has a cheaper dedicated PC chip in the works as well. Currently dubbed the "Snapdragon 7cx," the little is known about the chip for now other than Qualcomm is aiming for it to appear in PCs ranging between $300 to $800.
At Computex 2019 Qualcomm showed off the new Snapdragon 8cx ARM processor built for Windows 10. New benchmarks from UL showed that when put up against the Intel Core i5-8250U the 8cx often beat it in real-world app usage scenarios in addition to nearly doubling battery life.
Lenovo and Qualcomm just showed us the first 5G Always-Connected laptop coming in 2020. The laptop is powered by the new Snapdragon 8cx and X55 5G modem and is part of a years-long collaboration between the two companies. While details are scarce we did get to see it streaming in 5G for the first time.
HP has two versions of the Envy x2. One has a Qualcomm processor, the other an Intel Core i5. But which should you get?
5G speeds are coming to an Always Connected PC near you, potentially as early as the end of this year, thanks to Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X55 modem.
Mozilla and Qualcomm are working together on a native ARM64 version of Firefox built for Always Connected PCs with Snapdragon chips.
Qualcomm just announced the Snapdragon 8cx, its most powerful ARM processor ever, and it's only for Windows 10.
Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon 855 mobile platform, Qualcomm is also debuting new in-display fingerprint technology that will be deployed in commercial phones in 2019.
It's official: the latest and greatest mobile platform from Qualcomm to lust after is the Snapdragon 855.
Developers can now submit native ARM64 apps to the Microsoft Store, unlocking the full performance potential of the Snapdragon processors powering Windows 10 on ARM PCs.
Lenovo's first Snapdragon 850-powered laptop, the Yoga C630, is now available at Best Buy for $800.
Both the HP Spectre Folio 13 and HP ENVY x2 are premium Windows 10 devices designed for different users, which makes choosing between the two products a somewhat easy decision.
According to Qualcomm, a native ARM version of Chrome is in the works, which could mean a nice performance boost for the browser on Snapdragon-powered laptops.
The Surface Go seems to hit all the right notes, but why is Microsoft not using Qualcomm's mobile Snapdragon chipset and instead went with Intel? Here are a few reasons.
Details of Qualcomm's next major ARM chip for PCs are starting to surface, and it's looking like the chip maker is aiming to bring the fight to Intel.
With AMD and Qualcomm both making news of late, is Intel's relevancy in the Windows PC space beginning to dwindle a little?
The most remarkable thing about a PC powered by the new Snapdragon 850 processor is just how unremarkable it is. On a surface-level view, the experience is perfectly fine, but it's clear that this little chip is going to shake things up.
The Always-Connected PC category is iterating fast. Just as we're breaking in the Snapdragon 835 ARM processor Qualcomm unveils the new Snapdragon 850 due later this year. You won't find this any phone though as it's only for Windows 10.