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Qualcomm is a semiconductor and wireless technology company known for Snapdragon processors and modems used in smartphones, PCs, and connected devices.
Samsung wants Qualcomm to fix chip overheating by mid-October or may use Exynos in the Galaxy S27 Ultra, Seoul Economic Daily reported. Samsung's mobile processor spending hit 13.8272 trillion won last year, though the Ultra's share is not public.
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Windows Central and Tom's Guide each tested Nvidia's RTX Spark for a week in one laptop model, the Surface Laptop Ultra. Six partners start shipping this week, Windows Central says, so a pilot on any other chassis goes beyond what either review covered.
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ByteDance is reportedly negotiating to buy MediaTek AI chips for its data centers, though no deal has been confirmed. Bloomberg News reported on Oct 15, citing people familiar, that an agreement is close; the buyer's 2026 AI capex guidance is 160 to 200 billion yuan.
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Nvidia says its RTX Spark laptops, shipping October 16, already support anti-cheat in five games, with Call of Duty and Valorant due later. A Verge writer found a review unit mostly indistinguishable from a traditional Windows PC after several days.
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iQOO has opened China pre-orders for the Neo12, a gaming phone with a 9,000 mAh battery and an active cooling fan. The specs come from the company via 91mobiles, and TechRepublic says the fan's effect on heat still needs testing in long sessions.
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Jurors in Delaware found Arm breached its license agreement with Qualcomm and awarded $2 in nominal damages. Both companies claimed a win, and Notebookcheck reported that issues still open could have greater financial implications than the award.
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OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China with a 9,000mAh battery, 4,000mAh more than Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, after leaving the US and Europe. The runtime figures are OnePlus's own, and Gizmodo has not verified any benchmarks.
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DroidDeck, a free open-source Android app, runs Valve's Arm-native Steam client on Snapdragon phones, Tom's Guide reported. The review ties it to Valve's Steam Frame work, while the performance evidence is one writer's early testing of a few games.
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI firms want phones running 100-billion-parameter models continuously by 2028, more than triple his newest chips' limit. Most of Qualcomm's plan for closing that gap is memory, the cost Amon says already deters phone upgrades.
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Twenty IT-services firms filed 31.9% fewer H-1B labor applications so far in FY2026, a third of an 8.1% drop, a dev.to analysis of federal data found. Because the forms also record each employer's offered wage by title, teams that sponsor engineers can price roles against named rivals.
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Reviewers who lived with Valve's headset for a week or three praise the 440-gram fit and log crashes, power loss and a mostly unrated game library. The price assumes you already bought the PC.
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The 25 million shares vest only against purchases Amazon actually makes, so Amazon's downside is nil and the $60bn is a ceiling with no published floor beneath it. What has to show up is the $5bn data-centre guide for fiscal 2027.
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OnePlus will launch its 9,000mAh OnePlus 16 in China on Oct. 12, after ending new product rollouts in North America and Europe. Buyers in those markets will likely have to go through importers and accept the warranty limits of a Chinese-market phone.
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Meta VR Glasses go on sale in Spring 2027 at $1,300 with the densest display the company has shipped, a horizontal view 40 degrees narrower than Quest 3's, and no controllers included in the box.
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Xreal opened preorders for Google's Aura glasses at $1,279, $20 under Meta's VR Glasses. Both run the same Snapdragon chip in a corded puck, so the purchase comes down to an app library and a lens type more than a 1.5% price gap.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, the first machine on Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm chip, starts at $2,599.99 and reaches $5,899.99 with 128GB of memory. Microsoft built it for developers running AI models locally, and so far its case against the MacBook Pro rests on the company's own performance claims.
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Qualcomm signed a multi-year patent cross-license with Huawei, a deal Huawei links to more than $6.9 billion in expected licensing value. Whether a U.S. chipmaker now pays for chip designs Huawei built under sanctions depends on terms neither company has published.
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Sensors and screens ride on the face at about 100 grams while the compute clips to a pocket. Meta says the display is good for reading text, and it will sell the glasses for $1,300 in spring 2027.
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Qualcomm asked a Delaware jury to let it stop paying Arm royalties for up to five years, a remedy Reuters reports could be worth billions of dollars. Judge Maryellen Noreika may still strike that term, which would leave Qualcomm only a smaller damages claim.
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Google says a small handful of complex Android apps need developer tuning on the Intel Googlebooks, three of the five models now on sale in Europe. Those three translate Arm code the way Chromebooks did, an arrangement Googlebook was meant to end.
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