Qualcomm Inc re-elected its board of directors on Friday with weak support from shareholders, who grilled the U.S. chipmaker over its strategy following its successful defense against a $117-billion hostile bid from Broadcom Ltd. Qualcomm has been under pressure to defend its decision to take Broadcom’s bid to a U.S. national security panel for review. […]
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Communications chipmaker Broadcom Ltd is planning to unveil a bid for smartphone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc by Monday, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, an attempt to create a roughly $200-billion company through the biggest technology acquisition ever. A tie-up would combine two of the largest makers of wireless communications chips for […]
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Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have successfully completed a lab trial for a Cat-M1 solution with MTN South Africa in support of MTN’s Internet of Things (IoT) ambitions. This is the first Cat-M1 test implementation of its kind on the African continent and represents the first stage of a wider scope of test activity. The Cat-M1 […]
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Take note, tech writers: as of this morning, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are no longer processors. Henceforth, the company would like you to refer to Snapdragon as a “platform.” In a post this morning, the San Diego-based chip – sorry processor – maker has detailed why it’s replaced one p-word with another. And why it thinks […]
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5G’s coming — and it will be here faster than predicted. 5G New Radio (5G NR), a flavor of the next-generation wireless network that’s expected to be the global standard, should be available for large-scale deployments in 2019, a year earlier than anticipated, nearly two dozen companies said Sunday. The companies who’ve vowed to reach […]
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Apple took a huge decision with the iPhone 7 series. Reports according to Forbes reveals that Apple decided to dual source the LTE modem from Intel and Qualcomm. As a result, there are huge performance differences in cellular connectivity between the two different versions of the iPhone 7, a new study says. Cellular Insights put both […]
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