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An experimental Linux driver has been developed for the Fairphone 6's ultra-wide camera, enabling QR scanning capability on mainline Linux via the qcom-camss driver and libcamera.
Samsung reveals two new designs of its upcoming smart glasses, developed with Google and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, featuring 9-hour battery life and AI capabilities like Gemini and Bixby.
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 with significantly larger batteries, brighter displays, and a switch to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, focusing on battery life and health features.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon projects global token demand will increase 40x by 2030, driven by AI agents shifting from human-paced to persistent background operation, requiring massive infrastructure for context, memory, and error handling.
Qualcomm launched GenieX, an SDK for running LLMs on Windows laptops, achieving 20 tok/s on Gemma 4 26B and supporting llama.cpp with GGUF models.
Qualcomm releases version 2.0 of its Linux support package, improving driver and board support for its chipsets.
The article analyzes Qualcomm's $3.9B acquisition of Modular to break CUDA lock-in and Google capping Meta's Gemini compute as two manifestations of the same infrastructure bottleneck, arguing that software and capacity constraints are limiting AI scaling.
Qualcomm is aggressively expanding in AI through multiple acquisitions, including Modular (creator of Mojo and MAX inference framework) and potentially Tenstorrent, signaling a significant push against Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.
Qualcomm announces the acquisition of Modular, the startup behind the Mojo programming language and AI infrastructure tools, marking a significant move in AI hardware-software integration.
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Modular, an AI infrastructure company focused on unifying accelerated compute with an open platform. This acquisition aims to advance Qualcomm's developer-first AI strategy and expand its software capabilities for AI from edge to cloud.
Qualcomm acquires chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion to strengthen its AI software platform and expand beyond mobile chips into data centers and AI gadgets.
Qualcomm CEO suggests AI agents could replace traditional smartphone apps in the future.
Reverse engineering the Qualcomm NPU compiler reveals undocumented VTCM memory management, MILP-based placement, automatic precision alteration, and a hidden analytical simulator (Hextimate) for edge deployment optimization.
Snap launched its new Snap Specs AR smart glasses at AWE 2026, priced at $2,195 with 4-hour battery life and Qualcomm chips, competing with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Reality Elite for mixed-reality glasses and the START toolkit for AI wearables, aiming to power the next computing platform beyond smartphones with over 40 AI wearable designs in development.
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for smart glasses, offering significant performance improvements in GPU, CPU, NPU, and battery life, hinting at more powerful and cooler smart glasses.
Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop 8th Edition and Surface Pro 12th Edition featuring new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips, new color options, but significantly higher starting prices due to ongoing component shortages.
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors, offering improved graphics performance and new color options, available now starting at $1,499 and $1,599 respectively.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces a shift from traditional operating systems and apps to an agent-first computing future with Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform for AI agents developed in partnership with Qualcomm.
Radxa announces the Dragon Q8B single-board computer powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC, with up to 32GB RAM. Early benchmarks show it outperforming the Raspberry Pi 5, though software is still maturing.