Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses
Specs has long been teasing the next version of its augmented reality glasses. A new partnership with Qualcomm promises some movement in that department.
Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them
Reuters: Adobe, Qualcomm partner with Humain on generative AI for Middle East https://www.reuters.com/... @Reuters #Qualcomm #Adobe
Qualcomm plans to launch a data center CPU that will link to Nvidia's GPUs to power AI, re-entering into the data center CPU market dominated by Intel and AMD
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Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit
and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen Defense One : The D Brief: Jet falls off carrier; Yemen-bombing stats; Global defense-spending spike; Amazon's first satellites; And a bit more...
Sources: Arm is recruiting executives from its own customers in a push to sell its own chips, and is competing against Qualcomm to sell data center CPUs to Meta
Arm (O9Ty.F) has begun recruiting from its own customers and competing against them for deals as it pushes toward selling its own chips …
A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition
A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership — On paper, Arm and Qualcomm look like natural allies …
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Russinovich / @markrus...
MediaTek announces a partnership with Meta to develop chips for AR smart glasses; the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1
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Apple, Google, and Samsung partner with Schlage, Yale, Qualcomm, and NXP to build Aliro, an open standard for smart locks and digital keys, targeting early 2025
Qualcomm ends its Iridium partnership to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, started in January 2023, after low adoption by smartphone manufacturers
However, Iridium says it's now free to talk with other smartphone and chip vendors on enabling another satellite connectivity deal.