Qualcomm buys a startup founded by former Apple chip designers

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Qualcomm has announced an acquisition that’s bound to make ripples in the chip world — even though you may not have heard of the company it acquired. Qualcomm paid $1.4 billion for Nuvia, a startup founded by three engineers who worked on Apple’s A-s...

The Exynos 2100 is Samsung’s high-end mobile chip for 2021

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

With just two days before its first Unpacked event of 2021, Samsung has detailed its latest high-end Exynos mobile chip. The Exynos 2100 represents two important milestones for Samsung. It's the company's first 5nm chipset. It's also Samsung's first...

Qualcomm says its new in-display fingerprint sensor is 50 percent faster

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

Qualcomm is upgrading one of its in-display fingerprint sensors. The second-generation 3D Sonic Sensor is 77 percent larger than its predecessor. It covers an area of 64 square millimeters (8mm x 8mm) compared with the first version’s 36 square milli...

Linksys reveals a WiFi 6E mesh system starting at $450

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

We're starting to see more WiFi 6E routers and Linksys is getting in on the action with its latest mesh system. The Linksys AXE8400 has full access to all three frequency bands — 2.4GHz, 5GHz and the newly opened 6GHz. Linksys says each node can cove...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 480 brings 5G to even cheaper phones

Posted on 04/01/2021 by Engadget

Despite the efforts of companies like Samsung and Xiaomi, 5G support is still mostly limited to more expensive phones. But starting this year, you’re likely to see the feature make its way to a greater number of budget phones thanks to the introducti...

Future Snapdragon phones can get up to four years of security updates

Posted on 17/12/2020 by Engadget

Back in 2017, Google announced Project Treble, a modular redesign of Android’s low-level system architecture that was supposed to reduce the time it took for phone manufacturers to update their devices with the latest version of its mobile operating...

Qualcomm’s latest earbud chip is built for Bluetooth LE Audio

Posted on 16/12/2020 by Engadget

At CES in January, Bluetooth SIG announced a spin-off standard for for wireless sound called Bluetooth LE Audio (low-energy). The new framework allows two key features: native support for hearing aids and audio sharing. And, of course, the standard p...

Tech’s biggest losers in 2020

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

It’d be easy to just say all of 2020 was terrible and call it a day. But while most of the year was awful for everyone, some things in tech suffered more than others. TikTok, for example, got jerked around by the Trump administration for months, only...

Apple is developing its own modem for future iPhones

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Engadget

Apple has started developing its own cellular model this year, one of the company’s executives has revealed. According to Bloomberg, Apple hardware technologies SVP Johny Srouji told employees in a meeting: “This year, we kicked off the development o...

Podcast: Tech tips to make dating, relationships and breakups easier

Posted on 04/12/2020 by Engadget

This week, Cherlynn is joined by senior editor Jessica Conditt and special guest Harris O’Malley aka Dr. NerdLove to talk all about the ways tech affects dating, relationships and breakups. Will Google Photos, Facebook and Instagram ever stop sending...

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