A jury on Wednesday ordered Apple and component supplier Broadcom to pay the California Institute of Technology $1.1 billion for infringing the university’s patents. The technology relates to Wi-Fi chips Apple used in its iPhones, iPads, Macs and other devices from 2010 to 2017. Apple in court filings has argued that it shouldn’t have been …
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Apple on Tuesday reported an all-time record quarter for revenue and earnings — and it’s partly thanks to its newest AirPods and its services business. The company credited its services and wearables lines, as well as its newest iPhones, for the performance. Both sales and earnings in the three months ended Dec. 28 were well above Wall Street forecasts. Apple …
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Tech companies can’t stop talking about 5G, but chip giant Qualcomm has still got plenty in store for 4G: three new LTE processors for midrange and lower-end phones. The company late Monday unveiled its Snapdragon 720G, 662 and 460 processors to give less expensive phones faster 4G connectivity. The new chips also have Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, as well …
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Samsung’s mobile chief, Dong-jin Koh, has stepped down from running the company’s day-to-day operations. Instead, Tae-moon Roh will take over management of the smartphone business while Koh focuses on the company’s long-term business strategy. Koh, better known as DJ, has handed over the title of head of Samsung’s mobile communications business to Roh but remains president and CEO of Samsung’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Cheaper 5G smartphones are getting another boost: new processors from MediaTek. The Taiwan-based chipmaker unveiled its Dimensity 800 series chips Tuesday, saying they’ll “bring flagship features, power and performance” to midrange smartphones. The processors include integrated 5G modems that can tap …
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Samsung shipped a lot more 5G phones last year than it expected. The company on Thursday said it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019. Samsung’s first 5G phones hit the market in May, and as of early September, it had shipped 2 million of them. At that time, it said it expected to ship about 4 …
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Samsung is expanding its store presence — right into Apple’s backyard. The South Korean company on Thursday will open its first Samsung Experience Store in the San Francisco Bay Area. The location at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, is only about 15 miles from Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. The downtown Palo Alto Apple Store — opened long …
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Last year, Qualcomm met with hundreds of reporters and analysts on the sunny beaches of Maui to talk about how 5G would change the world in 2019. The hype and excitement level was high. Then, reality hit. Network rollouts were met with hiccups and delays, you needed a map to find coverage and consumers ended up more confused than excited. …
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Chip giant Qualcomm has gathered hundreds of reporters and analysts in Hawaii this week to talk up its newest processors for mobile devices. Only a few minutes pass without some executive mentioning 5G and how popular the super-fast connectivity will be in 2020. But the biggest news of the show hasn’t been the whiz bang features of Qualcomm’s new chips, …
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The day before Qualcomm kicked off its Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii, rival Intel invited reporters to take a short drive. It had rented a $2,500-a-night villa in a nearby hotel, and it wanted to show how computers using its chips compared to those with Qualcomm processors. Intel had demos running in one of the rooms, showing how much faster …
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