Sony acquires Altair Semiconductor to join in IoT revolution

Sony has acquired Altair Semiconductors for $200 million, a developer of high performance, ultra-low power LTE chipsets according to Israeli media. Altair is one of the leading provider of single-mode LTE chips, which feature in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Altair was already one of the vendor to Sony which was supplying chips to Sony … Read more

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 SoCs will be produced at Samsung

Samsung’s 14nm FinFET production process, originally developed for its in-house built Exynos chips, has naturally drawn the attention of other chip makers as well. Qualcomm a fab-less semiconductor manufacturer has given responsibility of making its next powerhouse SoC the Snapdragon 820, to Samsung, using the same 14nm FinFET process intended for Samsung’s new Exynos 8 … Read more

Le Max Pro Official, World’s First Snapdragon 820 Powered Smartphone

We have been hearing for months that LeTV will release the first Snapdragon 820 powered smartphone. And these rumors were bang on target as Qualcomm and LeTV announced the first Snapdragon 820 powered smartphone in the world, the LeTV Le Max Pro earlier today. We already know a lot about the device, thanks to the … Read more

Moto G 3rd gen launched, starting from Rs. 11,999

Moto G 3rd Gen

Much awaited Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen has been launched in India today. The 8GB variant comes at a price tag of Rs. 11,999 and the 16 GB variant comes at a price tag of Rs. 12,999. At a glance this is a 64-bit chipset variant as compared to the older siblings of the Moto … Read more

Oneplus Two listed for 499 USD ahead of launch

OnePlus Two

After OnePlus One success, OnePlus team was revealing the specs one-by-one by giving hints over an image. The OnePlus Two is about to launch on 27th July in an exclusive Virtual Reality environment. But much before the official release the OnePlus Two is listed on an e-commerce website Oppomart for 499 USD. But according to … Read more

OnePlus Two will be coming with a SnapDragon 810

OnePlus Two powered by SnapDragon 810

Recently OnePlus teased with an Image where 810 was written and officially announced that the eagerly-awaited OnePlus 2 will come loaded with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 processor, engineered for OnePlus and its next generation flagship phone. According to OnePus guys: “While we played around with other options, we always came back to the 810. … Read more