Category: Processors

Who tried to take down Qualcomm? What were they after? Why didn’t they prevail? What does Qualcomm’s resilience mean for the future? These are the questions that Futurum Senior Analyst, Olivier Blanchard, dives into in the first episode of this three-part series, in which regulators challenged the company’s technology licensing model. Under the guise of investigating potential “anti-competitive” behavior, the Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, and European equivalents of the United States’ FTC all took turns attempting to paint Qualcomm’s technology licensing and/or business practices as anti-competitive, when they, in fact, were not.
Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard covers Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888+ 5G Mobile Platform, a mid-year upgrade to its flagship Snapdragon 888, which it had just introduced in December. Improvements include boosted CPU clock speeds and significant AI engine performance, blistering 7.5 Gbps x60 modem, triple ISPs, up to 200 MP photo capture, 8K video capture, and all of Qualcomm’s Elite Gaming features.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including the announcement that Windows 11 is coming, Amazon invests in Plus, news out of HPE Discovery, and other topics you won't want to miss.
The proposed NVIDIA acquisition of Arm has received a mass of attention. This week, Broadcom and Marvell came out in support of the deal.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcement by Canonical to support RISC-V with the Ubuntu operating system. Canonical has for years now taken the most holistic approach to porting Ubuntu to multiple platforms. While open source leaders such as Red Hat and SUSE focus on x86 based architectures, Canonical has taken a different path and arguably the most open.
Contextualizing the most recent PC shipment numbers from Canalys. HP and Samsung grew fastest in Q1 on increased demand for Chromebooks.
A quick run through of some of this week's biggest tech stories including NVIDIA, Arm, Oracle Earnings Preview and Apple's Privacy Woes?
NVIDIA has many levers of growth, and its standout performance may earn it inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The EU will introduce a digital wallet initiative ahead of the US, setting a first major milestone for 2022. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard covers the many nuances of that initiative, including Qualcomm’s prescient 2019 updates to its Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform and subsequent security clearance, what’s likely ahead there, as well as whether the EC will back down at all in its crusade against major US tech companies, whose assistance will no doubt be needed here.
The new Qualcomm-Microsoft Snapdragon developer kit announcement signals growing enterprise buy-in for an always-connected compute platform. Futurum analyst Olivier Blanchard breaks down why the market is hungry for good enough performance laptops and explains Microsoft’s interest in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon compute platform.
AMD CEO Lisa Su shrewdly leveraged the Computex Keynote to promote AMD’s latest portfolio-wide innovations and capabilities including especially its first application of 3D chiplet technology. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how AMD’s foray into 3D chiplet technology is key to advancing ecosystem-wide semiconductor development and how its new portfolio solutions strengthen AMD’s ability to fulfill customer demands across the auto, mobile, gaming, PC, and data center server market segments.

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