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Lilbits: Sony buys Audeeze, MSI leaks Raptor Lake-S details, and previews of upcoming Android features

Intel’s 14th-gen processors are set to debut this year, and it looks like desktop-class chips that are part of the “Raptor Lake-S Refresh” line are going to be… a lot like the company’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake chips. They’re manufactured on the same Intel 7 node, and featuring the same core and thread counts (for the […]

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Qualcomm expands Snapdragon G Series chips for handheld gaming devices

Nearly two years after launching the first Snapdragon G series chip built for handheld gaming devices, Qualcomm is expanding the lineup with three new processors. The new flagship is the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2, which is the “better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2” processor AYA had been teasing for its upcoming AYA Neo Pocket Air S […]

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Report: Qualcomm to launch multiple chips with “Oryon” cores in 2024

Qualcomm acquired chip designer Nuvia a few years ago in an effort to play catch up to Apple in the high-performance ARM-based processor space. But it takes a while to integrated new designs into your product roadmap, so we probably won’t see the first Qualcomm Snapdragon processors with “Oryon” CPU cores until 2024. But information […]

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Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, Infineon and Nordic team up to work on RISC-V products

Virtually every smartphone available today has a processor based on ARM architecture, and ARM-based chips are also widely used in IoT, automotive, and other applications. But one of the biggest players in the ARM-based processor space has just announced it’s teaming up with other chip makers in hopes of “advancing adoption of RISC-V globally by […]

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Lilbits: Windows Updates for outdated versions of the OS, Android 14 Beta 4, and MediaTek Dimensity 6100+

One of the least fun things about installing Windows using the original installation media is waiting for the operating system to download and install all the updates that were released after the installation media was created. It’s even more frustrating if you’re trying to install a version of Windows that’s no longer support by Microsoft. […]

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Lilbits: Amazon’s fall hardware event, AYA Neo Air 1S launch event, and fixing WiFi on Alder Lake-N mini PCs

Amazon may have just launched a new 11 inch Fire tablet, but the company usually saves its major project announcements for September. And now we know when in the fall to expect this year’s hardware launch event: September 20th. That’s likely when you’ll find out which new products Amazon is rolling out to make those cheap […]

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Report: Google’s first fully custom smartphone chip could launch in 2025 (Tensor G5)

Google has been shipping Pixel smartphones with Google Tensor-branded processors since the company launched the Pixel 6 in 2021. Up until that point, Google had used Qualcomm processors for its smartphones. Using its own processors gives Google more control over the performance and feature set of its phones. But so far all of the Tensor […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 brings a speed boost to budget phones (still tops out at WiFi 5)

Qualcomm’s latest chip for budget smartphones brings a 10% boost in CPU performance and new AI-enhanced photography features. The new Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 processor also brings support for LPDDR5x memory, UFS 3.1 storage, and it’s the first Snapdragon 4-series chip manufactured on a 4nm process. But the new processor isn’t necessarily an upgrade over last year’s Gen […]

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Lilbits: The Pixel 7a doesn’t have exactly the same chip as the Pixel 7 (but it’s pretty close)

One of the selling points of Google’s Pixel A-series smartphones in recent years is that you get many of the features of the company’s flagship phones, but in a cheaper body with a few cut corners. Now it looks like one of the corners Google cut with the Pixel 7a was the packaging technology used for […]

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Intel Meteor Lake chips will drop the i branding and add an Ultra tier

Intel’s 14th generation Meteor Lake processors are on the way soon and they’ll arrive with some significant branding changes. The biggest: Intel will drop the i that has been part of its Core chip naming scheme for the last 15 years. Meteor Lake processors will arrive as Intel Core 3, 5, and 7. Higher-performance chips […]