Apple and Qualcomm have settled their patent licensing battle, ending a two-year dispute the day after their trial kicked off in San Diego. The two sides announced the surprise agreement through a joint press release Tuesday at the same time lawyers were presenting their opening arguments in a courthouse in Southern California. Apple and its …
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Intel will no longer be working on 5G chips for phones, leaving Apple with only one supplier for its iPhones, Qualcomm — the same company that it was battling in court until midday Tuesday. Intel late Tuesday said it plans to cease working on modems for 5G, the next-generation of wireless technology expected to supercharge your mobile connection. It had …
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True story: Just last night I fired up my basement desktop PC, the one I use for gaming and VR. I hadn’t used it in over a month while the basement was being remodeled. I couldn’t believe how long it took to boot. How long Steam updates took to install. It felt so slow, even though it’s stocked with one …
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Processor progress is harder to come by these days, but Samsung says it’ll build chips next year that will give you a bit more battery life or a little more speed. Through improvements charted by Moore’s Law, chip electronic components called transistors get steadily smaller. On Monday, Samsung said it’s taken the next step along the Moore’s Law path, shrinking …
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A pilot, a former baseball pitcher and retired nurse walk into a bar… It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but that’s actually a few of the professions held by the jury members selected for the Apple v. Qualcomm trial in San Diego. Those nine people will decide the fate of Qualcomm’s licensing business in its battle …
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When it comes to Apple vs. Qualcomm, the Federal Trade Commission trial in January was just a dress rehearsal. Now it’s time for the real show. The two technology giants meet on Monday in a San Diego courtroom to kick off a five-week, $27 billion trial that’ll determine whether Qualcomm operates a smartphone modem chip monopoly and charges too much …
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Sitting in the audience watching Acer proudly announce its new Concept D line of “premium high-end desktops, notebook PCs and monitors designed for professional and amateur creators,” my heart beat a little faster. Xeons and Quadros and ECC memory, oh my! Acer talked about needing “to reach out to emotions” with the hardware design. Quiet operation of less than …
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In the market for a new laptop? This might be the ideal time to see if a Chromebook is the right option for you. The price is certainly right: Today only, and while supplies last, Woot has the refurbished HP Chromebook 14-ca043cl for $199.99, with free shipping for Prime subscribers. (Amazon owns Woot.) Elsewhere, I’m seeing it new for $325. …
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If you have that rarity in the PC market, a laptop powered by a Qualcomm processor and not the more common Intel chip, you can now use the Firefox web browser on it. Mozilla on Thursday released a beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips for laptops. The nonprofit hopes its browser will graduate from beta …
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At its annual global press conference, Acer showed off new Chromebooks along with an entirely new line of computers for creatives, called Concept D. But some of the most interesting announcements were from the Predator Helios gaming line. The new Helios 700 looks and feels a lot like previous Helios laptops, at least at first. But with a quick hand …
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