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Tuesday 6 October 2026
Apple, Qualcomm renew patent deal, iPhone modem shift deepens
Qualcomm announced on September 24 that it has renewed its global patent licensing agreement with Apple, with the new contract set to take effect on April 1, 2027. The terms and value...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Qualcomm takes Arm to trial again, with billions in royalties at stake
Qualcomm and Arm opened a five-day trial in US federal court in Delaware on October 5, with Qualcomm seeking to stop paying Arm royalties for up to five years, a remedy potentially...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Qualcomm says Huawei patent deal not tied to LogicFolding, rejects net-payer claims
Correction, Oct. 6, 2026: An earlier version of this story, citing Bloomberg, reported that Qualcomm had agreed to license patents related to Huawei's LogicFolding...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
LB Semicon expands power chip capacity as Qualcomm production ramps up
South Korean outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider LB Semicon is expanding power semiconductor backend capacity at its Gumi plant as it steps up efforts to reduce...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Samsung ramps Exynos 2700 wafer production as second-gen 2nm rollout advances
Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun front-end wafer mass production of its next-generation Exynos 2700 mobile application processor, with production volume planned at more than...
Monday 5 October 2026
Podcast highlights: TSMC Texas plant talk is premature, Intel 18A hits backfiring criticism
This excerpt from DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin's podcast looks at TSMC's rumored Texas expansion, Intel's 14A and 18A process debate, and Qualcomm's high bandwidth compute (HBC) push...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm, Samsung redesign chip packaging as heat limits phone performance
Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics are redesigning how memory is packaged with flagship smartphone processors, as rising chip performance puts greater pressure on the limited cooling...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm says PC chip shortages are manageable; price swings hit harder
Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager of the compute and gaming business, Kedar Kondap, said the biggest challenge facing the PC industry is not component shortages,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Speed 3D Showcases On-Device AI Generation with Snapdragon X2 Elite

Speed 3D Inc., a Taiwan-based AI software company specializing in computer vision, generative AI and hardware integration, will showcase Picbot Edge at Snapdragon Summit...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
Googlebook, QwenBook bring agentic AI to the PC system layer, opening new chip opportunities

Qualcomm unveiled no new PC chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, but its PC strategy remained firmly in focus.

Wednesday 30 September 2026
Qualcomm sees smart glasses leading AI wearables boom; AI pins, pendants follow

Among personal AI devices beyond smartphones, smart glasses remain the fastest-growing category, according to Ziad Asghar, senior vice...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Qualcomm, Liquid AI tout on-device AI potential at Snapdragon Summit
Qualcomm Technologies held its Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Hawaii, from September 22 to 24. During the keynote on the second day, Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon spoke...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm sticks with TSMC for both 2nm Snapdragon flagships as Samsung steps up foundry push
Qualcomm is sticking with TSMC for both of its newly launched 2nm Snapdragon flagship processors, extending the Taiwan foundry's hold on Qualcomm's top-tier mobile chips even as Samsung...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm splits flagship mobile SoCs into more tiers
Qualcomm is launching two flagship platforms in 2026—the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6—signaling a new era of finer-grained flagship...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm pushes Snapdragon PCs further into Linux, GoogleBook as AI shifts to the device edge

Qualcomm used the second day of its Snapdragon Summit 2026 to underline a broader shift for Snapdragon-powered PCs, announcing Linux...