Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for January 19th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Qualcomm Unveales the Snap Dragon 870, Cruz, Microsoft, and GM all get together in a beautiful

marriage that is just as much about cloud computing as it is self-driving cars,

has the policy controversy endangered what's app in India and why the whole

smart home and internet of things industries might be taking a bit of a

breather. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Coming soon to millions of Android phones, Qualcomm has unveiled its new Snap Dragon 870 chip,

which has a similar design to the 865 and 865 plus, but is

clocked at 3.2 gigahertz, making it about 10% faster than the 865, quoting the verge.

Think of it almost like a Snap Dragon 865 plus.

Qualcomm says that the reason for the new chip

is in response to manufacture and market demands. The

870 is designed for companies that want to offer a top tier processor but don't

need the absolute best features that the flagship Snap Dragon 888 offers and the higher price tag that it demands.

Instead, the company says that it expects that Snap Dragon 870 phones should hit a sub-800-dollar

price tag, although confusingly we've already seen

Snap-dragen 888 phones like the $799 Galaxy S21 start to bleed into that range.

Presumably there's also a marketing aspect here,

the Snap Dragon 870's new branding and modest,

if still real, speed improvements over

even the Snap Dragon 865 plus mean that companies using the

chip in their phones get a new 2021 chip to boast about on spec sheets without

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