Adnan Farooqui

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Samsung Foundry bleeding cash, shuts 50% of production capacity

Samsung Foundry is the conglomerate's contract chipmaking arm. It has poured billions of dollars in this division hoping that there would be significant demand from major chip designers, but that demand hasn't materialized. All of this excess and un-utilized capacity has become a drain on the company's resources, forcing it to consider serious options to […]

By Adnan Farooqui
23 hours ago

Samsung reportedly wants to drop the ‘Galaxy’ brand for flagships

The term “Galaxy” has become synonymous with Samsung's Android-powered phones. Every smartphone in the company's lineup, whether it's an entry-level device that costs just over $100 or a foldable that costs $1,800, has the term Galaxy before its actual name. This has been the case since 2009 and every Android phone since has followed the […]

By Adnan Farooqui
3 days ago

TM Roh certainly has the right to be upset with Samsung Foundry

Samsung Foundry has been trying very hard to compete against TSMC, the undisputed contract chip manufacturing leader, particularly on the advanced nodes. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year by top chip designers like Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, and many more to have their chips made at foundries, since they don’t have their own. […]

By Adnan Farooqui
4 days ago

Qualcomm CMO sheds light on the regional co-marketing wins with Samsung

Samsung and Qualcomm both attach a lot of importance to their longstanding partnership, evidenced by the fact that the head of Samsung's mobile division, TM Roh, made an in-person appearance on stage during the ongoing Snapdragon Summit 2024, where Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite. “We love Samsung,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said as he […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 week ago

Snapdragon 8 Elite Geekbench, other benchmarks put gains in perspective

Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset earlier this week at the ongoing Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Maui, Hawaii. It's a big launch for the company as this is the first time that its custom Oryon cores have been integrated into its mobile platform. Qualcomm did say last year that it would bring Oryon […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 week ago

Snapdragon-powered Samsung flagships could get 8 years of Android OS upgrades

Samsung has already been leading the Android OEMs in offering some of the best Android OS upgrade support. Its latest high-end devices are supported for seven years, ensuring that customers can enjoy new features for a considerable amount of time, if they don't decide to upgrade their phone for the next seven years. There's a […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 week ago

[Update: QCOMM Statement] ARM rains on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon parade with design license cancellation

[Update] A spokesperson from Qualcomm has provided us with the following statement: This is more of the same from ARM – more unfounded threats designed to strongarm a longtime partner, interfere with our performance-leading CPUs, and increase royalty rates regardless of the broad rights under our architecture license. With a trial fast approaching in December, […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 week ago

Wow, One UI 7 is evolving fast, our SDC video is outdated already!

You might recall that Samsung announced at the Samsung Developers Conference 2024 earlier this month that One UI 7 will be released next year. There's no date for a developer beta as yet so it's unclear when we might get our hands on the latest update. However, we were able to find a device running […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

TM Roh’s Snapdragon Summit cameo reveals Samsung’s big secret

Qualcomm announced the most bonkers Snapdragon chip for flagship Android smartphones today. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a giant leap in everything from gaming to AI performance thanks to Qualcomm’s custom Oryon cores, and the new chip is considerably more efficient as well. Qualcomm confirmed that Samsung will be among the manufacturers who will launch […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Samsung loses out on Snapdragon 8 Elite fabrication to TSMC

Samsung Foundry has been finding it difficult to compete with TSMC. Some of the world's leading chip designers are opting for the latter to get their chips fabricated. This means that Samsung loses out on billions of dollars in business, despite having invested significant sums in its foundry to provide manufacturing capacity for advanced chips. […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Is there a special Snapdragon 8 Elite for Samsung Galaxy flagships?

Recent Samsung flagships, including the Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6, have all used a slightly overclocked version of Qualcomm's top-of-the-line chipset. While everyone else got the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Samsung's flagships got the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy. It was the same deal with the previous iteration […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Snapdragon 8 Elite makes mobile AI faster, smarter, and more powerful

Last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was a considerable leap forward for generative AI on mobile devices. With the demand for these features booming more than ever, the mobile platforms have to evolve to power the next wave of complex generative AI features. The latest Snapdragon 8 Elite makes significant improvements to the Qualcomm AI […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Here’s what Snapdragon 8 Elite’s insane gaming power means for you

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset brings some incredible improvements that will undoubtedly make the gaming experience on next-generation flagship smartphones unlike anything that we've experienced before. Much of it has been derived from the architecture improvements that Qualcomm has made to the new chipset, which includes the company's first-ever Adreno GPU with a sliced […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Snapdragon 8 Elite’s new AI ISP unlocks a new dimension in mobile photography

There’s a lot that Qualcomm’s new chipset improves upon but what a lot of people were particularly interested in were the improvements made to the camera capabilities. It’s safe to say that the Snapdragon 8 Elite is exceeding expectations in this department, as it brings AI photography features, that were previously available only in the […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

Confirmed: Samsung will use Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy S25 series

Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset at the Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Hawaii, and as expected, it's an impressive platform that delivers incredible advancements for mobile performance, gaming, photography, and artificial intelligence. Mobile device manufacturers will now be using this chipset to bring new flagship devices to the market. It has now been […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

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