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Chipmaker Qualcomm releases a device with a Snapdragon chip and a price tag of 1,500 dollars. The thing will be called 'The Phone for Snapdragon Insiders', and Qualcomm will not build it itself.   The device is made in collaboration with Asus. The device is intended to showcase the power of Qualcomm's technology, and the smartphone will only be sold to members of the Snapdragon Insider fan community, a fan club the company started earlier this year. Qualcomm has been the supplier of, among other things, the network chips that are in almost every smartphone for years. However, the 'Snapdragon Insider' smartphone is the first that Qualcomm releases as a consumer phone under its own name. The device, therefore, seems instead a showcase of various technologies of the company, including...

The founder of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei calls on his employees to accelerate the group's diversification. The aim is to circumvent US sanctions on smartphones by making more products yourself.   The telecom giant has been suffering from the trade war between China and the United States for years. Washington blacklisted the company in 2019, barring Huawei from accessing US technologies for its products, including the electronic chips essential to its phones, as well as software services like Google's. This situation also weighed heavily on Huawei's sales. In an internal note to his employees seen by AFP, Huawei founder Ren Zhenfei is now calling for a total transformation of the group. Among other things, the autonomy of its software must be accelerated. "For example, the Un...

A small revolution in smartwatch land: Google and Samsung are now going together for one operating system.   Wear (provisional name) combines the best of Wear OS and Tizen and should give both tech giants more clout against the Apple Watch - by far the world's best-selling smartwatch. The news was announced at the Google I / O developer conference taking place online this week. With Tizen, Samsung has had a solid platform for smartwatches for many years, but reviews always revealed the same Achilles heel: the fact that there are far fewer apps available for it than for Apple's watchOS and Google's Wear OS. For Google, it is a huge boost to get Samsung on board for a universal operating system: clocks like the Galaxy Watch3 and Watch Active2 only have to tolerate the Apple Watch in...

The American computer manufacturer Dell Technologies will split off its majority stake in cloud company VMWare. This creates two completely separate listed companies. The deal allows Dell to raise billions to reduce its high debt.   Dell owns 81 percent of VMWare. Following the spin-off, VMWare will pay out billions in special dividends to shareholders, of which Dell could potentially receive $ 9.7 billion. The Texas computer company acquired the majority stake through the 2016 acquisition of data storage group EMC, the parent company of VMWare. The acquisition was worth $ 67 billion. Dell has been reviewing strategic options for California's VMWare since the summer of last year. The technology group is weighed down by a debt of more than 48 billion dollars. According to CEO Mich...