Last month Intel’s stock lost $50 billion in valuation — while the valuation for Taiwan-based TSMC jumped by over 50%. The former chief of staff to Intel CEO Andrew Grove (and later general manager of Intel China) explains why this moment was 15 years in the making: Learning curve theory says that the cost of manufacturing a product declines as the…
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Will More Powerful Processors Super-Charge NASA’s Mars Rovers?
The Texas Advanced Computer Center talks to Masahiro (Hiro) Ono, who leads the Robotic Surface Mobility Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory which led all the Mars rover missions (also one of the researchers who developed the software that allows the current rover to operate):
The Perseverance rover, which launched this summer, computes using RAD 750s — radiation-hardened single board computers manufactured…
Qualcomm Wins US Antitrust Lawsuit Appeal Over Chip Licensing
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling against chip supplier Qualcomm in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission. From a report: The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals also vacated an injunction that would have required Qualcomm to change its intellectual property licensing practices. The decision amounted to a near complete victory for…
WSJ: Qualcomm Asks US Government to Let it Sell Chips to Huawei
“The Wall Street Journal said it had obtained a Qualcomm presentation lobbying the U.S. government to remove restrictions and let it sell Snapdragon processors to Huawei,” reports Engadget: The ban won’t prevent Huawei from obtaining necessary parts and could just drive “billions of dollars” of U.S. sales to foreign chip makers like MediaTek and Samsung, Qualcomm reportedly said — lifting the…
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to ‘Achilles’ Flaw in Qualcomm Chips
“Researchers have found that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, one of the most widely used in Android phones, has hundreds of bits of vulnerable code that leaves millions of Android users at risk,” reports Gizmodo:
To back up a bit, Qualcomm is a major chip supplier to several well-known tech companies. In 2019, its Snapdragon series of processors could be found on nearly 40%…
New Repository Leaks Souce Code From Microsoft, Adobe, and Dozens of Other Companies
Bleeping Computer reported this week that a new public repository of leaked code includes big names like Microsoft, Adobe, Lenovo, AMD, Qualcomm, Motorola, Roblox, and Disney:
The leaks have been collected by Tillie Kottmann, a developer and reverse engineer, from various sources and from their own hunting for misconfigured devops tools that offer access to source code… According to Bank Security, a…
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 Can Get a Phone To 50 Percent Battery in Five Minutes
Qualcomm is giving its Quick Charge technology a sizeable boost, one that the company claims will be able to plug in and get a device with a 4,500mAh battery from 0 to 50% in five minutes and from empty to 100% in 15 minutes. From a report: The new technology — which will make its first appearance in devices during the…
Google Invests $4.5 Billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms
Google has become the latest high-profile firm to back India’s Reliance Jio Platforms. The search giant is investing $4.5 billion for a 7.73% stake in the top Indian telecom network, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Wednesday. From a report: The investment today from Google is one of the rare instances where the Android-maker has joined its global rival Facebook…
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold
Today, Qualcomm is announcing an update to its extremely successful Snapdragon 865 SoC: the new Snapdragon 865+. AnandTech reports: The new Snapdragon 865+ is a new binned variant of the [Snapdragon 865] with higher peak frequencies on the part of the “prime” CPU as well as the GPU, promising +10% performance on both aspects. Whilst in relative terms the new chipset’s…
First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X
As expected, developers with early access to Apple silicon-based transition kits have leaked some early benchmarks scores. And it’s bad news for Surface Pro X and Windows 10 on ARM fans. Thurrott reports: According to multiple Geekbench scores, the Apple Developer Transition Kit — a Mac Mini-like device with an Apple A12Z system-on-a-chip (SoC), 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB…