Hasta La Gadget!

This morning a lovely piece of video has surfaced showing the LG-made Nexus 5 from all angles, complete with an early version of KitKat called Key Lime Pie. This device appears to be working with KitKat, but as you’ll find in the menu pull-down the user attains right off the bat, he’ll be heading down […]

Qualcomm, right now one of the major smartphone chipmakers in the world, will be working to develop extremely efficient neuro-inspired chips in the near future that will have these very same chips work within smartphones, robots, and vision systems. Of course, having such chips alone would be useless if it does not have the right kind of software to work with, which is why Qualcomm is working towards the end of a neuro-inspired chip. In other words, we are probably looking at a processor that will hopefully mimic the neural structures as well as processing methods found in the brain. (more…)

Qualcomm Looks To Build Neuro-Inspired Chips original content from Ubergizmo.

Back on the 2nd of October, a bit of buzz was generated at the hands of Qualcomm senior vice president and chief marketing officer Anand Chandrasekher with regard to Apple’s 64-bit A7 chip. He suggested at the time that “there’s a lot of noise because Apple did [64-bit] on their A7,” going on to say […]

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 5S it excitedly grabbed the distinction of using the first 64-bit processor in a smartphone. It didn’t take long for Samsung to step up and say that it would be using 64-bit processors and some of its future devices. Samsung hasn’t offered any further details on when it might […]

Things could get even worse for HTC if the battered smartphone maker doesn’t move quickly. The WSJ is reporting that following a preliminary U.S. court win by Nokia, HTC is facing a possible import ban in its major overseas markets including the U.S. The ruling covers older HTC phones, but apparently the hot HTC One and other new devices also utilize the same radio technology covered in the lawsuit.

The WSJ is reporting that HTC is now working with Qualcomm to alter components to prevent another possible lawsuit. HTC is in rough shape as it is. Another lawsuit, or worse, an import ban, would douse the smartphone maker with more water as it tries to bail its already-sinking ship.

HTC is expected to report its first quarterly loss since its 2002 initial public offering. HTC is desperate, recently unloading its equity in Beats Electronics to try to shore up the smartphone maker’s cash balances. Once a top player in Android, HTC’s marketshare is shrinking, leading it to look at alternative markets including building a mobile OS for the Chinese market.

Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant told the Journal that even though the Nokia lawsuit started in 2012, before the HTC One hit the market, Nokia believes the One also violates its patents and would be included under any potential International Trade Commission ban.

HTC apparently has time before the final ruling in January 2014 to convince the ITC to reverse this ruling or present a workaround. It’s unclear at this time what HTC’s course of action might be, but this just adds to the company’s already overloaded pack animal. It likely won’t take much more to break its proverbial back.