[HN Gopher] Qualcomm: From Satellites to CDMA to Snapdragons
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       Qualcomm: From Satellites to CDMA to Snapdragons
        
       Author : LaserPineapple
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-03-19 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | quantumduck wrote:
       | The Mars helicopter Ingenuity also uses a commerical off the
       | shelf snapdragon mobile processor (820 I believe).
        
       | ChuckNorris89 wrote:
       | The article forgot to mention that their Adreno GPUs were IP
       | acquired from former ATI, now AMD (Adreno is an anagram of
       | Radeon)
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       | If you ever feel like you made a bad financial bet, remember that
       | AMD nearly bankrupted itself by spending too much money on buying
       | ATI in 2006, and then sold Quallcomm their Imageon (now Adreno)
       | mobile GPU division they got from the ATI aquisition, exactly
       | before the smartphone boom kicked off the mobile SoC gold rush
       | that made Quallcomm so rich. It's like shooting yourself in both
       | feet. Twice. I wonder if whoever was at the helm of AMD back then
       | managed to find other jobs in the industry after that.
        
         | my123 wrote:
         | It was partially from their acquisition.
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         | Adreno started by using the fixed function blocks from the
         | Imageon acquisition from AMD but combined them with the
         | programmable blocks of the Qualcomm Qshader GPU architecture.
        
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