Qualcomm wants a piece of the PC market with its upcoming Snapdragon S4 chips as the company looks to jump out of its traditional stronghold market of smartphones and tablets, CEO Paul Jacobs said on Tuesday.
Apple has asked a federal court in California for an order enjoining Motorola Mobility from suing the company in other courts for patent infringement in connection with its use of chips from Qualcomm in its products.
While the Verizon iPhone is a CDMA-only device, it actually has a chipset capable of supporting both CDMA and GSM.
According to the team at iFixit, the CDMA Verizon iPhone uses a Qualcomm MDM6600 chip, the same chip used by the Motorola Droid Pro to connect to both CDMA and GSM networks. iFixit says that the chip supports 3G HSPA+ data rates that max out at over 14Mbps.
Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for thin and light Windows 8 laptops, which the chip maker hopes will steal some thunder from Intel's second wave of ultrabooks due later this year.
A major public-private partnership comprised of Axesstel, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), Dell, the Nairobi Provincial Medical Office, Qualcomm, RTI International and Telkom Kenya is planning to improve the supply of AIDS drugs and treatment through the use of wireless technology.
It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which dominate that market.
The first mobile devices with Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon chip featuring an integrated modem will be shown off later this month, the company said on Monday.
Although the smartphone patent disputes have so far revolved around mobile operating systems, you can expect a lot more suits to focus on LTE technologies in the coming months.
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Late last month, Verizon Wireless announced that it had created a task force with the "industry's 'best and brightest' network engineers and strategists from Cisco, Lucent, Motorola, Nortel and Qualcomm." The team was formed to further work by standards bodies on IP Multimedia Subsystem.