The integration of generative AI in smartphones is expected to spur “a new upgrade cycle” in 2024 after years of sluggish sales, according to Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Cristiano Amon. Speaking at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Amon painted an optimistic outlook for the handset market, despite global smartphone sales hitting the lowest level in nearly …
Goertek’s headset reference design supports high-quality hand and eye tracking, enabling OEMs to compete with Apple. FACTS Qualcomm yesterday announced a new premium chipset for VR headsets, the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2. The company also unveiled a new reference design being developed by headset manufacturer Goertek. The reference design supports Qualcomm’s next-generation XR chipsets: the …
The new Sony headset and its accessories.Image: Sony Sony and Siemens revealed an XR (Xtended Reality) headset collab at CES 2024. Launching later this year, the headset was developed with business in mind, and that’s apparent from multiple aspects of it. Sony designed the new headset for businesses, engineers, and developers to explore and model …
Qualcomm will be bringing a new VR/MR chip to CES 2024 in Las Vegas next week. The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 is an update to the standard XR2 Gen 2 that was revealed back in September. The chip is intended for use in virtual reality headsets, mixed-reality headsets and other wearables. The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen …
Image source: Qualcomm The leading processor manufacturer for smartphones unveiled the Snapdragon XR2+ chip, which will be utilised in mixed and virtual reality headsets produced by Google and Samsung. In a bid to compete with Apple‘s forthcoming Vision Pro, Qualcomm, the leading mobile phone processor manufacturer, unveiled the Snapdragon XR2+ chip tailored for virtual and …
This year’s artificial-intelligence boom turned the landscape of the semiconductor industry on its head, elevating Nvidia Corp. as the new king of U.S. chip companies — and putting more pressure on the newly crowned company for the year ahead. Intel Corp. INTC , which had long been the No. 1 chip maker in the U.S., …
Fionna Agomuoh / DigitalTrends We were able to check out some demoes and see a dummy unit running the company’s new Snapdragon X Elite PC chip, and Qualcomm is making some big performance claims against Apple’s latest silicon. The Snapdragon’s Qualcomm Oyron CPU, which was announced in October, was being compared to the Apple M2 …
After ChatGPT launched in November 2022, Google was forced to accelerate its AI technologies. A few months ago, Google unveiled Google Bard, powered by LaMDA, in March earlier this year. In May, the company improved its AI model with the launch of PaLM in May. This week, Google unveiled an even more powerful foundation model …
Apple has created quite a storm in the AR/VR space with its Vision Pro announcement. Banking on this, several other brands have already jumped into the space and it appears Samsung may soon come up with its own version of XR smart glasses. Phonearena has reported that Samsung has filed a new trademark for “Samsung …
Qualcomm unveiled the new Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC mobile chipset on Friday, November 17. The new mid-range 5G mobile platform succeeds the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 chipset and brings new on-device AI-based advancements. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 boasts peak CPU speeds of 2.63GHz and is claimed to deliver 50 percent faster GPU performance …