Qualcomm gave me a new perspective on freedom last week at its 5G Summit in San Diego, with its new Wireless AR Smart Viewer reference design glasses. And just like the many vistas in that sunny California town, the view was quite nice.

Ryzen 6000U is probably the company’s best chance in many years, perhaps ever, to take share from Intel in a product segment its chief rival has had a stranglehold on for what seems like forever.

As the metaverse becomes a larger part of the enterprise, business, and our personal lives, the need to ensure high-speed, reliable and secure wireless communications into the metaverse – across the globe –becomes increasingly more important. To that end, AMD has just announced that its recently acquired Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC is being used in the development of multiple Evenstar radio units (RUs).

At is Vision 2022 event, currently underway in Grapevine, Texas, Intel unveiled the latest new additions to its mobile processor line-up, targeted squarely at the high-performance mobile workstation and extreme gaming laptop segments. Intel’s new 12th Gen Alder Lake-HX processors build upon the company’s current mobile line-up, by adding more cores and features…

Today at its annual 5G Summit in San Diego, Qualcomm announced it has achieved a significant milestone in the evolution of 5G wireless network connectivity and the future of wireless broadband services everywhere.

Announced in collaboration with Microsoft, Synopsys Cloud will give customers access to Synopsys’ cloud-optimized, AI-infused design tools, on optimized infrastructure in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform.

Though Intel is preparing a full onslaught of discrete GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) this year, based on its scalable Arc Alchemist architecture that can address powerful desktop PC to mobile applications, the company is stepping out first with a low power offering for laptops.

AI and the metaverse seemingly go hand-in-hand, but NVIDIA is clearly all-in on both emerging markets and their enabling technologies.

Chip design tools bellwether, Synopsys, is making great strides at harnessing machine learning in many areas of chip design. The latest AI-fueled innovation Synopsys has on tap is Silicon Remastering of legacy chips in newer, more modern chip fab processes.

At Mobile World Congress, currently underway is Barcelona, Spain, Lenovo unveiled an array of new devices spanning multiple product segments, including tablets, Chromebooks, displays, gaming devices and laptops. As the world begins to re-open and opportunities to travel become more common once again, one particular product – the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s – seems particularly well-targeted.

Based on the Wi-Fi 7 standard, Qualcomm’s FastConnect 7800 will deliver peak speeds of 5.8Gbps and sub-2 millisecond latency, with High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link technology for link aggregation, and a huge performance lift at half the latency of previous generation WiFi-6/6E solutions.

The Nubia RedMagic 7 is powered by Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform processor. Despite the device’s killer performance, however, pricing starts at only $629.

This morning AMD announced it completed its acquisition of Silicon Valley adaptable computing powerhouse, Xilinx.

Intel announced no fewer than 50 processors this morning, including 28 new mobile and 22 new desktop 12th Gen Core processors. An expanded chipset line-up was also announced, as was some interesting Arc Alchemist discrete GPU news.

NVIDIA GeForce SVP Jeff Fisher kicked off a presentation, which was packed with new PC gaming and graphics disclosures, including new GPUs for gaming laptops and desktop PCs as well.

Today, Qualcomm has allowed independent benchmark test results of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 prototype device to be published, and the early numbers are promising.

Companies like Synopsys are making great strides to usher in a new era of holistic design approaches for chip technologies, fueled by AI-enhanced automation.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 features significant advancements to virtually every part of the platform.

3D V-Cache is essentially a 64MB SRAM cache manufactured on TSMC’s 7nm node that attaches directly on top of each core complex die (CCD) in a Zen 3-based processor, to effectively triple the amount of high speed L3 cache available to the processor cores.

Intel is laying claim to not only the “world’s fastest gaming processor,” but also major gains in productivity and content creation workloads as well.