Less expensive version with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip

ASUS has officially announced its less expensive version of the ROG Phone 9, the ROG Phone 9 FE, which will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon Gen 3 SoC, while the rest of the specifications remain the same.

Great results can’t please anyone

The reaction to Qualcomm and Arm’s stonking results is more proof that Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs don't really know anything.

Thinner, lighter, and with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 12GB of RAM

At its Galaxy Unpacked January 2025 event, Samsung unveiled its full Galaxy S25 series lineup, including the Galaxy S25 and the Galaxy S25+ smartphones, which are now thinner, lighter, and will be getting the custom Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC in all markets.

Today, Intel; tomorrow the world

Elon [look at me] Musk, Global Foundries, and Qualcomm are in Florida, where they will are rumoured to be plotting to buy Intel.

After 28 years working for Chipzilla

Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran and lead engineer on numerous Xeon server processors, has exited the company to join Qualcomm.

Up to 300 per cent

British chip technology supplier Arm wants to jack up tits royalty rates by up to 300 per cent and develop its own chips in a move that could place it in direct competition with its largest customers.

Hints at early launch

The next-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite v2 system-on-chip (SoC) could debut earlier than expected, according to industry insider Digital Chat Station.

Wants a rematch

Arm has announced plans to pursue a retrial in its high-stakes licensing lawsuit against Qualcomm after a jury in a U.S. federal court delivered a mixed verdict on Friday. While the jury ruled in Qualcomm's favour on two of the three counts, it deadlocked on the question of whether Nuvia, a company acquired by Qualcomm, had breached its agreement with Arm.

It’s mine, no it is mine

Attorneys representing Arm and Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive in a pivotal legal battle over intellectual property (IP) ownership tied to Arm's computing architecture.

Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction

After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.