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We recently saw a report out of Korea that Samsung was working with Qualcomm to address heating issues on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor. The report adds that if these issues aren’t addressed, then the Galaxy S27 Ultra could be exclusively powered by an Exynos chip instead. Qualcomm previously refuted this claim…

Following a report that Samsung might skip the latest Snapdragon flagship, Qualcomm says that rumors about the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 running into overheating issues are “inaccurate.”

Arm accuses Qualcomm of filing the lawsuit to get out of paying ‘billions of dollars’ in royalties

The chip shortage and accompanying price increases across the market have put financial strain on both manufacturers and consumers. Meanwhile, the pace of development of pricier processors and the even more expensive devices they power hasn’t slowed. But according to one industry insider, we may just find a savior from that unaffordable future thanks to…

CPU testing goes about as expected, but GPU benchmarking is another story altogether. By •

Qualcomm is talking a big AI game with two flagship chipsets this year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. But a closer look at the differences between these two chips reveals that the Extreme nomenclature is doing quite a lot of heavy lifting. Rather, it might be more…

Qualcomm and Apple have renewed their global patent licensing agreement, extending a deal that was previously set to expire in 2027. Here are the details.

It’s taken a couple decades, but something big has finally started happening for how we get computing done on laptops. After years of trying to be tiny desktop computers, running the same kind of chips that were never really designed for power efficiency, laptops began broadly embracing RISC computing — including models built around Qualcomm…

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 as a substantial chipset for upcoming audio devices, with a massive focus on better AI performance for audio wearables.

Qualcomm today announced two flagship smartphone processors, called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with a focus on facilitating better AI-focused features.