Qualcomm today announced its plans to establish an integrated circuit (IC) design and engineering R&D Center in Singapore. In addition, it is working with a local school and Microsoft on the WE Learn mobile education project, which uses 3G smartphones to build a 21st century classroom experience.

What will CES 2012 and its treasure trove of technology announcements bring to the world? We give you a glimpse of what's to come in the CES 2012 roundup.

Smartphone and tablet enthusiasts will recognize Qualcomm as the company behind the mobile processors of these devices. But is that all there is to the company that just launched its latest Snapdragon S4 series of system-on-chip (SoC) processors? Here's a round-up of the interesting technology showcased by the San Diego company, at CES 2012.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors are moving beyond the Android smartphone and tablet space, powering a new wave of Windows 8 tablet and smart TVs starting with Lenovo's K91 SmartTV that was announced at CES 2012.

Similar to NVIDIA's Tegra Zone, Qualcomm's Snapdragon GameCommand gathers games that are optimized for the company's Snapdragon processors. The app will be unveiled at CES 2012 on 10th January with a concurrent launch on the Android Market.

SRS audio solutions will ultilize Qualcomm's high performance, low power DSP inside the Snapdragon processor to enhance its mobile multimedia and audio capabilties.

TSMC announced that its 28nm process is in volume production and production wafers have been shipped to customers. TSMC is the first foundry to provide such capabilities.

Apple, Google, Nokia and Qualcomm are said to be interested in acquiring InterDigital, a wireless telecommunications firm that has about 8,800 patents.

A recent interview with Qualcomm's vice-president of global marketing revealed there will be nine Windows Phone 7devices based on the company's Snapdragon processor.

Qualcomm's German Twitter account has confirmed their 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor will be seen on the HTC Sensation.