When Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 855+ processor, the company said we could expect smartphones powered by the chip in the second half of the year (ie any day now). Asus has already announced it’s on board, and now it looks like Nubia is getting in on the action. A Black Shark 2 Pro with the […]
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Samsung is now the world’s top chip maker (in terms of revenue)
For the past two years Intel has dominated the microchip business, despite competition from long-time rival AMD and more recently from ARM-based chip makers including Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung. But according to the latest quarterly earnings reports, it looks like Intel is no longer the world’s top chip maker. Samsung is… at least for now. […]
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IBM: phase-change memory could be cheaper than RAM, more versatile
The DRAMÂ currently used by computers and smartphones is faster than flash storage or hard drives, which is why it’s used for random access memory. But DRAM is relatively expensive and it’s volatile memory, which means that it can’t retain any data if the power is cut. There are a number of other technologies that could […]