Over the years, we’ve gotten used to two smartphone SoCs (system-on-a-chip) battling for dominance: Apple’s A series of chips and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8xx series.
But Huawei’s new smartphone chip, the Kirin 980, is poised to usurp that duopoly…
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Qualcomm launches its new vision intelligence platform for IoT devices
Qualcomm’s chips already power virtually every Android smartphone on the market, but the company has long set its sights beyond this core market and is increasingly looking at IoT as one of its next major growth areas. Earlier this year it launched its new embedded platform for IoT developers; today, it’s introducing two new systems-on-a-chip […]
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