This week, Qualcomm hosted its traditional Snapdragon Tech Summit. Like every year, the American founder took advantage of this event to unveil its latest high-end chips, such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that should be found in most of the star smartphones of 2022.
Here is a summary of the news of the week in addition to our weekly show What I Mail with François Sorel, Eric Le Bourlout and Nicolas Lellouche.
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Qualcomm unveils 2022 chips
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Snapdragon G3x Gen 1, Snapdragon 8cx G3, Snapdragon 7c +… Without easy-to-pronounce names, Qualcomm’s new chips are powerful. The first will equip smartphones, the second of the Switch’s rival portable consoles while the third will try to compete with the Apple M1 chip and is intended for PCs. The first devices equipped with these SoCs will be launched in 2022.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: anatomy of the future chip for high-end smartphones
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon G3x, a SoC tailored for portable game consoles
Qualcomm launches two new ARM chips for PCs, to tackle Apple’s M1 in late 2022
Should Meta sell Giphy?
Hard blow for Meta. According to the British competition authority, the takeover of the Giphy platform by the owner of Facebook in May 2020 must be canceled. English justice believes that Meta wanted to kill a potential competitor of Facebook in the advertising market and weakened other social networks by becoming the owner of Giphy’s data. He orders her to resell the GIF hosting site, which Meta doesn’t want to do just yet (he appealed).
British authorities want to force Facebook to sell Giphy
Folding smartphone sales take off
After two difficult first years, sales of folding smartphones are finally starting to take off, according to DSCC analysts. 2.6 million folding screen mobiles are said to have been sold this quarter, which represents an increase of 480% over one year. Problem, only Samsung takes advantage of this market. Without competition, the format will not be able to prevail.
Sales of folding smartphones would finally start to take off … but Samsung is too lonely
Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter
The founder and boss of Twitter is leaving. In an email sent to his employees, Jack Dorsey announced that he was leaving the group he founded, a choice due to his desire to favor the company rather than his ego. Jack Dorsey, also boss of Square (now Block), should now turn to cryptocurrencies. Twitter’s current CTO, Parag Agrawal, takes over.
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey steps down
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