apple.slashdot.org - From a report: Apple on Wednesday filed a countersuit against Qualcomm, alleging that Qualcomm's Snapdragon
mobile phone chips that power a wide variety of Android - based devices infringe on Apple's patents, the latest development in a long - running dispute.
What Apple is alleging is that Qualcomm's Snapdragon
mobile phone chips, which power a range of Samsung and other Android handsets, run into conflict with Apple's own earlier patents.
The complaints come after Apple filed its own patent - infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm on Wednesday for using tech in its Snapdragon
mobile phone chips that belong to Apple.
Qualcomm, an early pioneer in
mobile phone chips, supplies so - called modem chips to phone makers such as Apple, Samsung and LG that help the phones connect to wireless data networks.
Mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm showed off a previously unannounced version of Asustek Computer's Eee PC based on its Snapdragon processor and running the Android OS.
The South Korean tech giant is reportedly eager to do so in order for it to boost its wafer foundry utilization rate, as well as increase its share of
the mobile phone chip market.
Not exact matches
Because those
chips have become a standard across the
mobile phone industry, Qualcomm is required to license them on fair terms.
The money will be used for product development and field trials to shrink down the technology to
chip size so it works in
mobile phones and Wi - Fi devices.
Qualcomm's licensing business is central to both its profits and its ability to stay ahead in
mobile -
phone chip technology.
Apple argues that Qualcomm has abused its dominant position for
mobile communications
chips to charge excessive royalties, with the rates calculated based on the overall value of a
phone, not just the price of the communications components.
The Nexus S, for example, was the first Android
phone to run on the Gingerbread version and also featured a near - field communications
chip to run Google Wallet and
mobile transactions.
It's unclear if
mobile phone operators are in any trouble for selling ZTE
phones, but since the
mobile device manufacturer can't export components such as Qualcomm modem
chips that are necessary to make those
phones work, ZTE may not be able to make
phones anyway.
Its specialty products unit, which makes products that go into making construction materials or the semiconductors and
chips used in
mobile phones, saw sales rise 11 percent.
The company, which manufactures
chips for payment cards and
mobile phones, said revenue was largely driven by its cybersecurity business, as organizations increase their focus on data privacy and security.
Fueled by the exploding market for smart
phones, tablets and other
mobile devices, computer
chip packaging has become a critical factor in driving innovation amid the growing reliance on computer
chip technologies in nearly every industry.
When the computer
chip was developed, nobody had any idea that this would be in a
mobile phone, that you would be able to see photographs of other people and download whole books.
Led by Dr Yang Hyunsoo, the team developed a new device structure useful for the next generation MRAM
chip which can potentially be applied to enhance the user experience in consumer electronics, including personal computers and
mobile devices such as laptops and
mobile phones.
Work done by Willson and Fréchet still underpins the processes producing the microprocessors and memory
chips at the heart of everything from personal computers to
mobile phones.
The ones more worried about their
mobile phone, the screaming kids in the back, their skinny double chocolate
chip latte or any other thing that has nothing to do with what they are doing.
Typically, the dollar content for a touch
chip on a tablet device is 3 - 5 times the average selling price of a
mobile phone touch
chip.
Visa's compliance testing process helps to ensure the combination of the
phone; secure
chip and Visa's
mobile payment application will provide the level of security and user experience Visa accountholders have come to expect from Visa.
The HTC HD7 will be T -
Mobile's very first Windows
Phone 7 handset and sports a 4.3 - inch WVGA (800 x 480) TFT screen (the largest screen on a Windows
Phone 7 handset), 1 GHz Qualcomm
chip, 576 MB of RAM, 16 GB of onboard storage, and a 5 megapixel camera with dual - LED flash.
Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor
chips,
mobile phones and TFT - LCDs.
The
chip called the APX 2500 promises to, according to Nvidia, change the way we interact with
mobile phones in... Read more
Nvidia, has launched a new graphics
chip designed for specificly for
mobile phones at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,
mobile phones at this year's
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
In the past when you mentioned graphics
chips you would only be talking about desktop computers, but Nvidia today unveiled the NVIDIA GoForce 5500 handheld graphics processing unit (GPU) for
mobile phones at 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain.
Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of
mobile -
phone chips, will demonstrate a test device running Windows 8 based on its Snapdragon processor, said a person familiar with its plans.
According to the leaked specs, The Windows 7 HTC Mozart
phone features 3.7 inch Super-LCD Touchscreen, 8 MP cam, Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz chip, 576 MB RAM & 512 MB ROM, 8 GB built - in storage, Wi - Fi, HSDPA, HSUPA, Windows Phone 7 OS, SRS and Dolby Mobile sound enhancement, Bluetooth 2.1, min
phone features 3.7 inch Super-LCD Touchscreen, 8 MP cam, Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz
chip, 576 MB RAM & 512 MB ROM, 8 GB built - in storage, Wi - Fi, HSDPA, HSUPA, Windows
Phone 7 OS, SRS and Dolby Mobile sound enhancement, Bluetooth 2.1, min
Phone 7 OS, SRS and Dolby
Mobile sound enhancement, Bluetooth 2.1, miniUSB.
While Tegra 2
chips are only a small piece of the Android smartphone market and are in
phones like the original Atrix or the T -
Mobile G2X, they make up about 75 percent of all truly native Android tablets on the market, the tipsters said.
A new barometer sensor is available for developers to use, as is an integrated NFC
chip for
mobile payments and sharing information with other
phones via a bump and tap.
Packed with faux metal finish on the back and the sharp metal accents around the
phone, BlackBerry Torch 9810 runs the new BlackBerry OS 7, offers a 1.2 GHz application processor, a somewhat disappointing 3.2 - inch 640 x 480 - pixel display with a pixel density of 253 ppi, 768 MB of RAM, 5 megapixel camera to record 720p HD video, HSPA + 4G support, 8 GB of internal storage space, a microSD card slot to 32 GB of memory storage, 802.11 Wi - Fi b / g / n, microUSB 2.0, Bluetooth, Wi - Fi Hotspots, NFC
chip, T -
Mobile TV, USB tethering, 1270mAh battery which lasts up to 8.5 hours of talk time and stand by time of up to 14 days.
Credit and debit card information is stored on a
chip in user's
mobile phone and zapped to the POS device without need for plastic or pin numbers.
In addition to selling
chips into the
mobile market, Qualcomm receives royalty payments for its CDMA
phone technology.
There is upside to companies with emerging market exposure in smart
phones and playing the trend through the
chip manufacturers may carry less risk from the rollout and success of particular products like that of
mobile players like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
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phone reimbursement, purchase security, extended warranty, refund price differences, premium benefits (including upgrades with luxury hotel partners), $ 0 liability, EMV
chip technology, online password protection, free credit score access with Wells Fargo
Mobile
Ash's Holiday Units and Cafe not only offers the world famous «Barra and
Chips» from the Cafe, but also sells a large range of fishing equipment, bait, wholesale seafood,
phone cards and
mobile CDMA recharge to help you keep in touch, essential supermarket and convenience items, local souvenirs and t - shirts and what they don't have they will help you find!
Mobile payments security fears, roadblocks As
chip - based credit card payments slow down checkout lanes and cause confusion at the cash register, some analysts predict frustrated cardholders will start reaching for their
phones instead.
Today's DRC is the world's largest exporter of coltan, a raw material used in computer
chips and
mobile phones, and we see this ubiquitous marker of global modernity creeping across their skins.
This «software analysis method», as Intel describes the flaw, allows a pair of exploits, dubbed «Meltdown» and «Spectre,» to swipe data from other apps on vulnerable devices — be they PCs, servers or
mobile phones — running Intel, ARM or AMD
chips.
It will be interesting to see how the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung plan on taking on Apple's dominance in the
mobile chip market, but in the meantime, if you're looking for the best - performing
phone on the market, then the iPhone 8 may be your best bet.
l Ultra-thin
chip design: Fully embedded ultra-thin fingerprint chipset design, supports up to 0.3 mm in thickness, module thickness 0.86 mm, supports the ultra-narrow bezel design of a
mobile phone.
As reported by VentureBeat in June, the new
phones have an NFC
chip inside to support
mobile payments.
«While Lau wouldn't divulge many details of the upcoming OnePlus
phone — including its name — he confirmed it would run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor, the
mobile chip unveiled just in December.
It used the formation of what was called the Open Handset Alliance, which included
phone makers like HTC and Motorola,
chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, and carriers including T -
Mobile.
The iPhone 8 should also be the first
phone with Apple's new A11
chip, which could be the fastest
mobile processor ever — if the leaked benchmarks are accurate.
Most importantly, Huawei aims to use the Kirin
chips to differentiate its
phones from a vast sea of competitors, including Samsung, who overwhelming rely on rival Snapdragon
chips from Qualcomm, the market leader in
mobile chip design.
The biggest winner of
Mobile World Congress 2016 wasn't a
phone or a
phone manufacturer, but a
phone chip manufacturer: Qualcomm.
The pair said that Lenovo, HP, and Asus have signed on to make Windows 10 devices that'll run on the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm's highest - end
mobile chip, which is also behind Samsung's Galaxy S8 and most other recent flagship
phones.
After all the talk, Intel has finally done it... it has launched a
mobile phone with Orange and Gigabyte, with an Intel
chip inside, and Pocket - lint has already gone hands - on with the new device.Built by Gigabyte and to be sold by the network in the UK... Read more
The Snapdragon 845 is Qualcomm's best
mobile chip to date, and should help the
phone perform like a flagship for at least the next year or so.