#snapdragon-summit — Public Fediverse posts

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme im Benchmark: 18 Kerne und 5 GHz hängen AMD, Intel und Apple ab https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-benchmarks.94438/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Weekly output: Android + Chrome OS, Qualcomm’s AI vision, Microsoft cancels some IDF Unit 8200 services

This week’s trip to Hawaii and back for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit–with that company paying my airfare and lodging for its invitation-only event–reminded me once again of the vast size of the United States. And yet I was able to wake up painfully early Friday morning on Maui, take a flight to San Francisco, board a second flight from SFO to Dulles, and land at IAD in time to catch the night’s last eastbound Silver Line train from the airport.

9/25/2025: Google Teases Its Android PC Project Again. Qualcomm Says ‘It’s Incredible’, PCMag

I wrote an update to this post by PCMag’s U.K.-based correspondent James Peckham after seeing a Google executive share a few more details about this upcoming rebuild of ChromeOS on an Android foundation in Wednesday’s keynote.

9/25/2025: Qualcomm’s CEO Touts a Future Where AI (and Cameras) Are Everywhere, PCMag

It wasn’t until I was an hour into writing up Tuesday afternoon’s keynote early Wednesday morning that I realized how Qualcomm’s vision of AI acting upon the inputs of always-on cameras in smart glasses and cars unintentionally echoed the “always-on camera” branding it had briefly and unwisely picked for a human-presence detection system in smartphones almost four years earlier.

9/27/2025: What’s behind Microsoft’s canceling of some services to Israel’s military?, Al Jazeera

I didn’t get to sleep in Saturday morning after coming home around 2 a.m. Instead, Al Jazeera asked me to join this discussion recorded then about Microsoft canceling some cloud services for the Israeli Defense Forces after reporting by the Guardian and the Israel-based news outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call documented how the IDF’s Unit 8200 had employed those services to conduct a pervasive and invasive surveillance campaign against Palestinians. My fellow panelists: Taghreed El-Khodary, a Palestinian journalist now based in the Netherlands, and Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. One of my contributions was reminding viewers of Microsoft president Brad Smith’s words at Web Summit 2018: “The tools that we’ve created, the tools often times that you’ve created, have been turned by others into weapons.”

#AI #android #BradSmith #ChromeOS #CristianoAmon #Gaza #GoogleOSes #IDF #Microsoft #privacy #Qualcomm #SameerSamat #smartGlasses #SnapdragonSummit #Unit8200

I’m not sure that the mass market shares the tech industry’s vision for smart glasses

One recent change among early-adopter circles was plain on the faces of many fellow attendees of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week: “smart” glasses with cameras, microphones, speakers and sometimes screens. But then my flights home Friday reminded me that for the overwhelming majority of people, “eyewear” means electronics-free glasses.

Qualcomm’s invitation-only conference–that company paid my airfare and lodging, as it did on my prior trips to cover it in 2021, 2022 and 2024–allowed me to get some brief face time with Snap’s Spectacles ’24, running newer software than the version I tried at last year’s summit. The event also treated me to a parade of tech execs testifying that smart glasses were the next big computing platform.

But despite all those optimistic assurances and my own earlier, brief tryouts of such smart glasses as Meta’s camera-enabled Ray-Bans and a prototype set of Android XR glasses, I remain unsold on the entire concept. So, it seems, do most customers: A Forrester Research survey released in September found that 79 percent of respondents had no interest in buying smart glasses.

On one hand, smart glasses with cameras, speakers and microphones are not particularly cheap–the Ray-Ban-branded models from the conglomerate EssilorLuxottica cost $379 and up–but perform worse than phones at taking pictures and playing audio.

Plus, they have the potential to annoy friends and strangers who aren’t keen on the possibility of surreptitious photography.

On the other hand, more advanced smart glasses with built-in displays could finally make hands-free augmented-reality overviews of the world a reality, but first somebody has to bring them to market at a not-crazy price. Snap’s Spectacles, which require a $99/month developer subscription, are not there; Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, available starting Tuesday for $799, aren’t that much closer.

And somebody also has to solve battery-life concerns: What’s my motivation to strap a computer to my face, however stylish it might get, if that electronic eyewear will only run six hours on a charge and therefore need recharging much more often than my phone?

Meta championing this cause gives me further cause. That company has shown a history of careless indifference to the consequences of its actions, including repeated episodes of bad-faith behavior towards my own industry, that does not make me want to give it my money.

But Meta has also been so spectacularly wrong about consumer-electronics trends–topped by Mark Zuckerberg renaming Facebook to “Meta” and losing tens of billions of dollars on the delusional notion that people want to spend prolonged time in virtual-reality environments–that Zuck pushing smart glasses itself seems reason to eye the concept skeptically. Through dumb, software-free glasses.

#AndroidXR #ARGlasses #faceComputer #GoogleGlass #GoogleGlasses #Hawaii #MarkZuckerberg #meta #metaverse #privacy #Qualcomm #RayBan #smartGlasses #SnapSpectacles #SnapdragonSummit

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: Qualcomm mischt TSMC N3X und N3P für High-End-Chip https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-qualcomm-mischt-tsmc-n3x-und-n3p-fuer-high-end-chip.94476/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm #TSMC

Google and Qualcomm are cooking up something big for PC users 🔥 Qualcomm's CEO has seen it in action and calls it "incredible." A unified Android experience across phones and PCs? 💻 Read the full story to discover what this game-changing collaboration means for the future of personal computing.

#Android #Google #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TechNews

https://true-tech.net/google-preparing-android-for-pcs/

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: Qualcomm teasert Chip unter dem Elite und mehr Oryon an https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-gen-5-qualcomm-teasert-chip-unter-dem-elite-und-mehr-oryon-an.94458/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: Wie sich Qualcomm gegenüber AMD, Intel und Apple schlägt https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-wie-sich-qualcomm-gegenueber-amd-intel-und-apple-schlaegt.94456/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: Qualcomm geht für Notebooks auf bis zu 18 Kerne und 5 GHz https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-qualcomm-geht-fuer-notebooks-auf-bis-zu-18-kerne-und-5-ghz.94439/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 im Benchmark: Qualcomm schlägt Apple erst­mals bei Single-Core-Leistung https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-im-benchmark-qualcomm-schlaegt-apple-erstmals-bei-single-core-leistung.94437/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: Qualcomm hat mit Oryon 3 den schnellsten Smartphone-Chip https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-qualcomm-hat-mit-oryon-3-den-schnellsten-smartphone-chip.94424/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Weekly output: AI data centers, Stasi Museum, Sneakers, Brendan Carr on censorship, Mark Vena podcast

After a week at home, I’m back on a plane early Monday morning for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. That company is covering my airfare and lodging, its usual arrangement for the event it hosts at a high-end resort, and I’ll include a disclosure about that in all the copy I file about the summit.

In other business-travel news, Patreon readers got a bonus post this week from a trip that they helped underwrite: a recap of the Online News Association’s conference in New Orleans.

9/15/2025: AI’s Dirty Secret Lies in Fossil Fuels Powering the Future of Artificial Intelligence, Worth

I missed this story when it was published because (ahem…) an editor spelled my last name wrong in the byline, leading to it not showing up on my author page. But anyway: Even if you’re as late to discovering this online as I was, I encourage you to read it and remember two questions to ask about any new data-center project: Will its electricity come from burning polluting fossil fuels, and are its owners paying for new generation capacity to avoid stressing the existing power grid?

9/15/2025: Berlin’s Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion, PCMag

Even though my previous visit in 2018 happened with the same president in the White House, the museum’s exhibits hit in a much different way this time.

9/16/2025: Why the Robert Redford Classic ‘Sneakers’ Is a Favorite in Cybersecurity Circles, PCMag

I had borrowed a DVD of this 1992 flick from my local library in March, which turned out to be good timing for the piece that I realized I needed to write the day after Redford’s death.

9/19/2025: The FCC Chairman Was Against Censorship Before He Was for It, PCMag

As I’ve written more than once here before, I hate abuse of power, and the chance to call it out gets me awake in the morning.

9/19/2025: EP 115 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple’s Awe Dropping Event, new iPhones and IFA 2025 takeaways, Mark Vena

My major contribution to this episode was discussing the popularity of balcony solar power in Germany–and its absence in the U.S.

12/11/2015: Updated the post to add a post that had escaped my attention in a particularly embarrassing manner. 

#balconySolar #BrendanCarr #EastGermany #hackerMovies #JimmyKimmel #MarkVena #Qualcomm #RobertRedford #SnapdragonSummit #Sneakers #StasiMuseum #surveillance #TooManySecrets

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: Qualcomm bestätigt neuen Namen für Flaggschiff-SoC https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-qualcomm-bestaetigt-neuen-namen-fuer-flaggschiff-soc.94323/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

🆕Qualcomm prezentuje Quick Charge 5 Plus! Co zmieni się w szybkim ładowaniu?
➡️https://rootblog.pl/qualcomm-prezentuje-quick-charge-5-plus/

#Qualcomm #QuickCharge5Plus #SnapdragonSummit #Szybkieadowanie

Qualcomm Confirms Snapdragon Summit 2025 Dates #2025 #computing #date #mobile #mobilephones #qualcomm #semiconductorchips #snapdragon #snapdragonsummit

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/352177/qualcomm-confirms-snapdragon-summit-2025-dates/

Oryon 3: Snapdragon Summit 2025 findet vom 23. bis 25. September statt https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/oryon-3-snapdragon-summit-2025-findet-vom-23-bis-25-september-statt.92717/ #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

Qualcomm believes Snapdragon X devices will win over SEA consumers with Superior AI and Energy Efficiency #copilot #copilotpc #copilotplus #laptops #news #qualcomm #snapdragon #snapdragonsummit #snapdragonsummitsea #snapdragonx #snapdragonxelite #snapdragonxplatform #snapdragonxplus #tech

https://soyacincau.com/2025/02/27/snapdragon-summit-sea-snapdragon-x-platform/

Weekly output: Snapdragon Windows software compatibility, Qualcomm’s connected-car ambitions, Snap Spectacles ’24, Mark Vena podcast, Bluesky business plans, Qualcomm 8-core Snapdragon X Plus benchmarking, election security

Before I get to my usual list of what got published under my name this week, I need to vent about what did not get published by the Washington Post this week: the endorsement of Kamala Harris that, by multiple accounts, was quashed by imported-from-London publisher Will Lewis at the direction of owner Jeff Bezos. The insultingly vapid explanation by Lewis can only be read as Bezos attempting to grovel for a lesser spot for his businesses on Donald Trump’s enemies list.

This is a craven betrayal of the legacy of Katharine Graham, who defied the threats of Richard Nixon and his lackeys while the Post published the Pentagon Papers and documented Nixon’s Watergate crimes.

Jeff Bezos, you are no Kay Graham.

10/22/2024: Qualcomm Moves to Ease Windows on Snapdragon Compatibility Concerns, PCMag

My first post from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit covered a series of moves to address one lingering concern of that company’s rollout of fast and battery-friendly laptop processors: compatibility with existing Windows apps and peripherals. Reminder: Qualcomm covered my airfare and lodging on this trip.

10/24/2024: Qualcomm Revs Up Connected-Car Ambitions at Snapdragon Summit, PCMag

Then I filed a much longer post unpacking Qualcomm’s pitch to automakers to use its connected-car platforms. It was weird to see the only in-person endorsements from automakers in Qualcomm’s day-two keynote come from Chinese manufacturers.

10/25/2024: Snap Spectacles ’24 First Look: AR Glasses That Aren’t Vaporware, PCMag

I tried out these augmented-reality glasses Monday afternoon but didn’t have time to write about them until Thursday morning–the first-world problem of being at a conference with a packed schedule six time zones to the left of my editors.

10/25/2024: Ep 70 SmartTechCheck Moment — Ruminations on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Hawaii, Mark Vena

I joined my industry-analyst pal Mark Vena and other analysts Mike Feibus, Francis Sideco and Dave Altavilla to record a podcast from a lawn at the Wailea Beach Resort, Qualcomm’s venue for the summit.

10/25/2024: Bluesky Readies Subscription Option, Says It Won’t Be Like X Premium, PCMag

I hustled to write this short post from Maui’s airport before a flight to Los Angeles that I didn’t even realize would have no WiFi for most of the flight over the Pacific.

10/27/2024: Qualcomm’s 8-Core Snapdragon X Plus, Tested: A Competitive, Cheaper Chip, PCMag

The research for this post began with a benchmarking session Qualcomm hosted at IFA about seven weeks ago, after which my editor and I were respectively slammed with travel and other schedule conflicts–while, conveniently enough, laptops with these new processors had not yet shipped.

10/27/2024: Election security, Alaraby

I appeared via Zoom on this Arabic-language news channel to share some details from my experience as an Arlington County poll worker.

Updated 10/28/2024 to add a link to my TV hit.

#benchmarks #Bluesky #connectedCars #electionSecurity #Hawaii #MarkVena #Maui #pollWorker #Qualcomm #SnapSpectacles #SnapChat #SnapdragonSummit #SnapdragonX #X #Xitter

Snapdragon 8 Elite im Benchmark: Neue Oryon-2-CPU und Adreno-GPU sind ein Paukenschlag https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-elite-im-benchmark-neue-oryon-2-cpu-und-adreno-gpu-sind-ein-paukenschlag.90032/ #SnapdragonSummit #Snapdragon8Elite #Qualcomm

Snapdragon 8 Elite vorgestellt: Konkurrenz für Apples A18 Pro?
Qualcomm hat auf dem Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Maui seinen neuesten Smartphone-Prozessor, den Snapdragon 8 Elite, vorgestellt. Dieser Chip tritt an, um Apples A18 Pro, der im iPhone 16 Pro zum
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/snapdragon-8-elite-vorgestellt-konkurrenz-fuer-apples-a18-pro/
#News #Tellerrand #A18Pro #Adreno #Apple #CPU #Geekbench #GPU #HexagonNPU #KI #Qualcomm #Snapdragon8Elite #SnapdragonSummit #Xiaomi15

Discover HONOR’s Magic7 Series: AI Innovation at Snapdragon Summit

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.gizchina.com/2024/10/23/honor-magic7-ai-launch/

Asus ROG Phone 9 angeschaut: Die ersten Smartphones mit Snapdragon 8 Elite im Überblick https://www.computerbase.de/news/smartphones/asus-rog-phone-9-angeschaut-die-ersten-smartphones-mit-snapdragon-8-elite-im-ueberblick.90051/ #ROGPhone9 #SnapdragonSummit

Snapdragon Cockpit Elite und Ride Elite: Qualcomm bringt neue Oryon-CPU, mehr GPU und KI ins Auto https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-cockpit-elite-und-ride-elite-qualcomm-bringt-neue-oryon-cpu-mehr-gpu-und-ki-ins-auto.89998/ #SnapdragonSummit #Oryon #Qualcomm

Qualcomm revolutioniert Android-Updates: Neue Chips ermöglichen 7 Jahre lang neue Betriebssystem-Versionen. Von Android 15 bis Android 22? #Qualcomm #Android #Snapdragon8Elite #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm https://winfuture.de/news,146171.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Qualcomm greift Intel an: Neue Benchmarks zeigen angeblich deutliche Vorteile der ARM-Chips gegenüber x86-Prozessoren. #Qualcomm #Intel #SnapdragonSummit #Oryon #SnapdragonX #LunarLake https://winfuture.de/news,146156.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Qualcomm präsentiert Snapdragon 8 Elite: Neuer High-End-Chip für Smartphones mit Taktraten bis 4,32 GHz. Ziel ist es, endlich zu #Apple aufzuschließen. #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #Snapdragon8Elite #Android https://winfuture.de/news,146143.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Snapdragon 8 Elite: Qualcomm greift mit 2. Generation Oryon nach der CPU-Krone https://www.computerbase.de/news/prozessoren/snapdragon-8-elite-qualcomm-greift-mit-2-generation-oryon-nach-der-cpu-krone.89997/ #Snapdragon8Elite #SnapdragonSummit #Qualcomm

WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.

Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.

10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag

Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.

10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag

The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.

10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag

Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.

It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/

#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms