Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 is an AI and computer vision powerhouse
Although Apple’s latest A14 Bionic chip enabled the iPhone 12 family and iPad Air tablets to deliver impressive performance improvements, Qualcomm is making clear...
Standalone VR headsets are finally ready to make a big leap forward
Tech company media events broadly divide into two categories: Apple-style events where completed new products are revealed just before they hit stores, and Qualcomm-style...
The DeanBeat: 13 humble predictions for gaming in 2020
I’ve never been good at making predictions about the game industry, but I enjoy it. I figure if I make enough, some of them...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...
Qualcomm interview: Snapdragon XR’s future, from wired to 5G, VR to AR
Day three of Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit is a big one for mixed reality — VR, AR, and XR — thanks to the...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort:...
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 865 and 765, promises devices in Q1 2020
After yesterday’s announcement of names and bare concept outlines for its upcoming Snapdragon 865 and 765 mobile platforms, Qualcomm today detailed how the upcoming...
Qualcomm reveals 5G-ready Snapdragon 865, 765, and 765G
Qualcomm’s annual Tech Summit is underway right now in Maui, Hawaii, and as expected, the company is teasing some major new chipsets: the flagship-class...
AI and the next big esports boom for pro players, amateurs, and entrepreneurs
Presented by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Esports is a billion-dollar competitive video gaming phenomenon, and a booming market. Professional players are drawing larger and larger...
At Qualcomm, 5G is headed everywhere and into virtually everything
It was easy to call 5G inevitable. Whatever it was, some next-generation cellular technology was certain to follow 2G, 3G, and 4G into the...