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Mint. “With the population and purchasing power that the country has, companies can't afford to make solutions which are not designed with the Indian price point in mind.”Qualcomm's chief executive Cristiano Amon had announced the AI-focused $150 million fund at the India AI Impact Summit held in Delhi last month.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shadowfox is scaling rapidly, improving margins, and entering the market at a sharp discount to listed peer Delhivery. But its investment case is complicated by heavy client concentration.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For a decade, one company has maintained a near-total stranglehold on the business of selling the advanced computer chips that power machine learning and artificial intelligence: Nvidia. Armed with the most advanced blueprints for graphics processing units, or GPUs, and helped by the rapid pace of innovation at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the contract fabricator that makes 90% of the world’s advanced AI chips, Nvidia has become synonymous with AI processors.

These glasses are expected to rival Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which enable users to interact with their environment through AI. Leaks have previously indicated that Samsung's XR glasses could weigh around 50 grams, feature multiple cameras, and support capabilities such as payments, gestures, and facial recognition. The smart glasses are likely to be powered by a Qualcomm chipset, with an NXP chip serving as an auxiliary processing unit. They could also include a 12-megapixel camera with a Sony IMX681 CMOS image sensor. Additionally, according to a report from SamMobile, the glasses may come with a 155mAh battery and incorporate Google's Gemini AI model to enhance the user experience with AI-driven features.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia is fighting to hang onto its command of artificial intelligence, as the technology evolves to chips outside of the data center. Major tech companies have been racing to build data centers, the facilities where AI models are trained and run globally—and where Nvidia’s AI chips dominate.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled its first-ever custom modem chip, Apple C1, while launching the iPhone 16e.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Apple’s never been great about appealing to bargain hunters. Plus, someone’s got to pay for that new iPhone chip.

Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 series last week and as expected, it has reduced the price of the Galaxy S24 models soon after. The S24 was launched in India at a starting price of Rs 74,999 for 8G/128GB. Now, it sells for Rs 64,999, a Rs 10,000 discount. Prices of the other variants have also been revised with the 8GB/256GB available for Rs 70,999 (previously Rs 79,999) and 8GB/512GB for Rs 82,999 (Rs 89,999 at launch).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Over the past couple of years, vivo has been making strides not just in product innovation but also in market share, especially in India. It has galloped past Samsung and Xiaomi to claim the spot of top smartphone brand in India.

Qualcomm's central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a trial in U.S. federal court that removed some, but not all, uncertainty around the mobile chipmaker's expansion into the laptop market. A week of courtroom arguments and deliberations ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to resolve one of three questions put before it in the trial between the two chip giants. Qualcomm said the result affirmed its right to innovate, but Arm vowed to seek a new trial. Arm's shares were down 1.8% in extended trading after the news, and Qualcomm's shares were up 1.8%.

The jury in a US federal court in Delaware is considering whether Qualcomm or Nuvia, a startup Qualcomm purchased for $1.4 billion in 2021, breached a license agreement with U.K.-based Arm, which supplies intellectual property to both firms. The case could upend Qualcomm's push into the PC market with a chip meant to rival Apple and Intel on speed.

Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive on Tuesday about a key question for the future of the chip industry: Who owns the intellectual property built on top of Arm's computing architecture? At stake in a trial in U.S. federal court in Delaware this week is the fate of Qualcomm's push into the laptop business, where it is helping partners such as Microsoft try to regain ground that Windows computers lost to Apple after the iPhone maker introduced its own custom chips. Arm's flagship product is a computing architecture that competes against Intel's architecture and is ubiquitous in smartphones and increasingly used in laptops and data centers. Competing computing architectures are the reason that, until relatively recently, most smartphone apps did not work on most laptops.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the new modem, codenamed "Sinope," is set to replace the Qualcomm chips currently used in iPhones, promising improved power efficiency and a more compact design.Likely to debut in 2025, the Sinope modem is expected to first appear in the iPhone SE, followed by a model codenamed "D23," which is anticipated to be the thinnest iPhone to date, adds the report. This reduction in component size is predicted to pave the way for larger batteries, enhanced camera systems, and an overall sleeker design.Apple’s move towards its own modem technology is said to have far-reaching implications beyond smartphones.

Upcoming phone launches this week: It's going to be an exciting week with a number of new smartphone launches lineup starting with the Redmi Note 14 series debut today, followed by the Moto G35 5G on December 10 and Vivo X200 on December 12. Here's a look at all the new phones launching this week.Redmi Note 14 series is all set to debut in India during a launch event today.

Redmi Note 14 India price: Leaks suggest that the Redmi Note 14 vanilla variant could start at a price of ₹21,999 while the Redmi Note 14 Pro model could begin at ₹28,999. Redmi Note 14 Pro, on the other hand, may start at ₹34,999. Redmi Note 14 is likely to feature a 6.67 inch AMOLED display with 2,100 nits of peak brightness and up to 120Hz refresh rate.

Apple is preparing to launch its long-awaited series of cellular modem chips next year, which will replace components from longtime partner Qualcomm, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The iPhone maker is looking to ultimately overtake Qualcomm's technology by 2027, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Qualcomm, a leading designer of modem chips that connect phones to mobile data networks, has warned investors that Apple will eventually stop using its chips.

iQOO 13 vs iQOO 12: Vivo’s sub-brand iQOO finally launched its first Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered smartphone, the iQOO 13 in India with some new eye-catching features. The new generation flagship smartphone comes with several upgrades over last year’s iQOO 12, which may attract buyers to get the iQOO 13. This year, the company has made some significant changes in the design, camera, performance and others, that outshine the predecessor in several ways.

iQOO 13 is available in 12/16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256/512GB of UFS 4.1 storage. The phone is available in two colour variants: Legend (White) and Nardo Grey. It is priced at ₹54,999 for the 12GB/256GB storage variant while the 16GB/512GB variant is priced at ₹59,999.

₹40,000 mark in India, the OnePlus 12R is now down to ₹32,999, along with bank offers, in the Amazon Black Friday sale.OnePlus 12R is listed at a price of ₹35,999 for the 8GB RAM/128GB storage variant. Meanwhile, the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant is listed for ₹38,999 and the 16GB RAM/256GB storage variant is listed for ₹40,999.

₹55,000.This suggests the launch price could hover around ₹55,000 or slightly higher, keeping it in the sub- ₹60,000 category. For context, its predecessor, the iQOO 12, debuted at ₹52,999, indicating the new model might carry a marginal premium.

₹59,999 for the 12GB RAM/256GB storage variant while the 16GB RAM/512GB storage variant is priced at ₹65,999. However, as part of the launch offers, Realme is offering a ₹3,000, taking the effective price of the device to ₹56,999 and ₹62,999 respectively.