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MediaTek Dimensity 9000 is a true flagship-class processor

Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek ships more smartphone processors than any other company, with over 40% market share in the second quarter of 2021. But for the most part MediaTek’s processors have been aimed at budget, mid-range, and “premium” phones… but not flagships. The company has a plan to change that, and it starts with the […]

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Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 Bespoke Edition, Oppo’s in-house chips, and Hyper’s big new batteries

This week Google officially launched the first smartphones powered by its own Google Tensor processors, and Apple unveiled new MacBook Pro laptops powered by the company’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. There seems to be a growing trend of device makers designing their own processors rather than using off-the-shelf chips from Intel, AMD, […]

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Google may be designing Chromebook processors too

Google is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook for its next flagship phone. Rather than using an off-the-shelf processor from Qualcomm or MediaTek, the Google Pixel 6 will be the first smartphone to ship with a Google-designed processor. Now Nikkei Asia reports that Google doesn’t plan to stop at smartphone chips: the company is […]

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Report: Google’s “Whitechapel” processor will power the Pixel 6 smartphone

Every Google Pixel smartphone to date has been powered by a Qualcomm processor. But the upcoming Google Pixel 6 could break the mold. According to a report from 9to5Google, it will be powered by a new GS101 processor code-named “Whitechapel,” making it one of the first devices to feature this new processor. We first saw […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 promises 25 percent boost in performance, efficiency (among other things)

Qualcomm’s next-gen flagship smartphone processor is designed to bring big boosts in CPU, graphics, and AI performance, while also bringing improvements in efficiency which could lead to longer battery life. After revealing a few details about the new Snapdragon 888 processor yesterday, Qualcomm is offering a deeper dive into what makes the new chip special enough to […]

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Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 888 chip with next-gen AI, 5G, and graphics

Qualcomm’s next flagship processor will be the Snapdragon 888 system-on-a-chip (SoC), a processor featuring Qualcomm’s 6th-gen AI engine, next-gen Adreno graphics, and a Snapdragon X60 5G modem. This time the modem is integrated into the SoC, something Qualcomm hadn’t managed to do with its Snapdragon 865 processor, which device makers were required to bundle with […]

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Apple M1 is a 5nm, 8-core system-on-a-chip for MacBooks

Apple has been building its own processors for smartphones, tablets, watches, and Apple TV devices for a decade. Now the company is making its own chips for Mac computers, starting with the Apple M1 chip. The company’s first ARM-based processor for Macs is a system-on-a-chip that combines an 8-core CPU, up to 8-core graphics, a […]

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Report: Microsoft’s next Surface devices could include AMD, ARM hardware

Two of the first Microsoft Surface tablets featured ARM-based processors and shipped with the Windows RT operating system. But the Surface RT and Surface 2 are long gone, and every Surface device Microsoft has released since 2013 has featured an Intel processor. This could be the year that changes. According to Petri’s Brad Sams, Microsoft […]

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MediaTek unveils a 7nm, Arm Cortex-A77 chip with an integrated 5G modem

Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek has mostly been sticking with mid-range space for the past few years, but today the company unveiled a next-gen processor that packs a lot of punch into a single chip. The upcoming processor will feature CPU and GPU cores based on Arm’s new Cortex-A77 and Mali-G77 designs. And it’ll also be […]

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Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 712 (It’s a little faster than Snapdragon 710)

Qualcomm is expanding its smartphone product lineup with a new chip aimed at upper mid-range smartphones. The company says its new Snapdragon 712 mobile platform is about 10 percent faster than the Snapdragon 710 and it includes technology that lets you charge a smartphone (or other device) a little faster. For the most part the Snapdragon […]