Lenovo is the first company to announce a smartphone powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor, but odds are that we’ll see a bunch of flagship phones with that chip next year. What really sets the new Lenovo Z5 Pro GT apart is that it will also likely be also the first phone to feature support for […]
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DDR5 RAM is coming (in a few years, maybe)
SK Hynix has just announced that it’s developed a 16GB DDR5 memory chip that it says is the first to match the upcoming JEDEC standard for DDR5. The company says its DDR5 memory uses less power while offering faster speeds than today’s DDR4 memory. But you’ll have to wait a little while to get your […]
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Xiaomi wins the race to smartphones with 10GB of RAM (for better or worse)
We knew they were coming. Now they’re here. The first two smartphones with 10GB of RAM have been announced, and I doubt they’ll be the last. For what it’s worth, it looked like Oppo would be the first company with a 10GB smartphone, but Xiaomi seems to have won the race. Earlier this week the […]
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Lilbits 320: Apple’s new MacBook Pro is fast… except when it’s not
Apple launched its most powerful MacBook Pro laptops to date last week, including 15 inch models with support for up an Intel Core i9 processor and AMD Radeon Pro discrete graphics. Unsurprisingly, a top-of-the-line model scores really, really well in benchmarks, and Laptop Magazine reports it has one of the fastest SSDs shipping in any […]
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Intel and Micron announce 2nd-gen 3D XPoint memory coming in 2019
Solid state drives tend to be faster than hard drives. And RAM (random access memory) tends to be faster still… but it’s “volatile” memory, which means that any data stored in RAM will disappear when you reboot or turn off a computer. A few years ago Intel and Micron teamed up to develop a new […]
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Intel unveils Optane persistent memory: 3D Xpoint DIMMs for data centers
When Intel first unveiled its Optane line of products based on 3D Xpoint technology, the company promised to blur the lines between traditional SSDs and RAM by offering non-volatile memory like an SSD, but read and write speeds that came close to what you’d expect from memory. So far Intel has primarily focused on the […]
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Now you can get a Moto X4 with 6GB of RAM (in India)
The Motorola Moto X4 is a mid-range smartphone with dual rear cameras, a glass back, long battery life, and respectable performance thanks to its Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor. The versions sold in the US ship with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage and have a list price of about $400 (although you can pick […]
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Cube iWork8 Air Pro is a $130 dual OS tablet (updated)
Chinese device maker Cube’s latest tablet features an 8 inch, full HD display, an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor, and two operating systems: Windows 10 and Android 5.1. What really makes the Cube iWork8 Air Pro unusual though is the fact that it’s a $131 tablet with 8GB of RAM. The tablet is available for […]
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Vernee Apollo 2 smartphone: Up to 8GB RAM, Helio X30 CPU
Chinese phone maker Vernee’s next smartphone will be available with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, making the Vernee Apollo 2 one of the first phones to feature more than 6GB of RAM. It’s also expected to be one of the first to ship with a MediaTek Helio X30 deca-core processor. Update: […]
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Micron’s QuantX 3D Xpoint storage coming in late 2017, will challenge Intel Optane
The first Intel Optane storage products should begin shipping soon, and it’s expected to show up in some laptop and desktop computers that launch in early 2017. Optane storage is expected to be up to 10 times as fast as the flash storage used in most existing solid state drives. While the first Optane products are expected […]