The most important thing about the new iPhone 16e is the Apple-designed cellular modem inside, the C1. The C1 is the first visible sign of Apple’s decade-long goal to no longer be reliant on Qualcomm…
Today at CES, Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon X processor. The company aims to bring fast performance as well as efficient battery life to a wider market by designing the chip with mainstream and budget…
It has been over five years since Apple purchased Intel’s modem division and patents, and in all that time it hasn’t managed to ship a product. Now, according to a new report from Bloomberg, the…
Qualcomm has attacked Intel for “misleading” claims the company has made in marketing its Lunar Lake processors, with the former citing PCWorld’s own Snapdragon and Core testing as evidence. In a presentation to reporters, Qualcomm…
In the ongoing war of words between Intel and Qualcomm in the low-power PC computing space, Qualcomm has fired a mammoth shot: The company is claiming that its second-generation Snapdragon Oryon CPU core is faster…
Qualcomm has been making waves in the PC world with its new crop of super-efficient Snapdragon laptops. But if you’re a software developer, odds are that: one, you already have a laptop, and two, you’d…
On Monday, chipmaker Qualcomm confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day — meaning a security flaw that was unknown to the hardware maker when it was abused — in dozens of its chipsets found in popular…
The PC processor industry is on the cusp of a major transition. We’re seeing the rise of what I’d call the “productivity processor,” with chips specifically designed for the work-obsessed, always-on-the-go professional. It’s a sea…
Lunar Lake is Intel’s Snapdragon killer. Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) was specifically designed to emphasize low power, but with competitive performance. In this it somewhat succeeds, though the Core Ultra 7 258V…
The hits just keep on coming for Intel. AMD’s Epyc chips are gobbling up market share in data centers while Intel’s desktop chips are frying themselves after years of being stuck on a stalled architecture.…