Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

The Apple-Qualcomm relationship isn't going too well lately amidst all the patent and royalty disputes. Apple even chose Intel as the sole supplier of modems in the 2018 iPhones after working with Qualcomm models for years. But the latest rumor...

With the potentially nearing launch of the Snapdragon 8150 we begin to gather the pieces of the puzzle and the recent AnTuTu score helps a lot. The chip scored a whopping 362,292 overall points smashing the Kirin 980 (273,913) and overtaking Apple's...

Christmas has come early for Samsung fans as the Korean manufacturer released its latest Exynos 9820 chipset for smartphones. It is based on the 8 nm LPP (Low Power Plus) FinFET process and is an evolution from the 10 nm Exynos 9810. The SoC came...

Intel unveiled the XMM 8160 – its first 5G modem. It’s a multimode modem so it supports the latest mmWave tech as well as older standards going all the way down to 2G. By having all this connectivity in one chip makers can simplify the motherboards...

Introduction During its annual developers conference (SDC 2018), Samsung just announced its Infinity Flex Display and a so-called One UI that makes company's foldable phones more usable but will also arrive on non-foldable devices (so the name...

The Kirin 980 chipset represents a massive technological improvement over its predecessor, but it’s tiny – at just 74.13mm², it’s a good 30% smaller than the Kirin 970. That’s one of the advantages of the 7nm process. But looking at the die shot...

According to the latest Digitimes research, smartphone AP shipments will continue to decline during this quarter with about 4.6% after the 13.9% gain in Q3 2018. Vendors appear to be feeling the trend and are giving lower order numbers. Some...

Qualcomm came out with a surprising announcement last month and unveiled yet another mid-range SoC - the Snapdragon 675. It's a close sibling to the Snapdragon 670 and 710, but it's built on the 11nm node (as opposed to 10nm) and features Qualcomm's...

Industry officials are reporting that Samsung is working on a dual core NPU – an AI-specific co-processor – for the upcoming 7nm chipsets. It will have a dual core design and will offer a significant boost in AI tasks. Leakster Ice Universe...

One of the highlights from yesterday was the report that Samsung would use Qualcomm's third-generation ultra-sonic fingerprint reader on its Galaxy S10 flagships and ditch the iris scanner. A second confirmation now arises coming from the famous...

UPDATE: Shortly after this post went live. A Huawei spokesperson reached out to clarify that the statement issued below was given by a Huawei UK Community Forum Manager and is not an official statement from Huawei. At the same time, Huawei has not...

A Chinese tech site got one of the early units of the Mate 20 Pro and took the time to disassemble the whole device and take photos on each step. Unfortunately, the article doesn't say anything about how hard was to take it apart, but by the looks...

Industry sources claim that the mini LED technology has matured enough and has even entered mass production this year, but it's yet to reach volume production. And why should we care? Because mini LED backlighting for modern LCD IPS displays could...

MediaTek’s first 5G modem, the Helio M70, is expected to be in devices in the first half of 2019, says company’s CEO. But the company is working on an integrated 5G chipset as well, this one will arrive later – near the end of the year, meaning that...

Out of the blue, the first phone with Snapdragon 8150 was announced (the first foldable phone to boot), but we’ve seen little of the chipset so far. Benchmark runs from it started appearing in Geekbench, giving us an early peek at the performance to...

Today Samsung announced two high resolution ISOCELL Plus sensors with 0.8μm pixels for smartphones. The two sensors are named Bright GM1 and Bright GD1 - the first one boasts 48MP while the second one has 32MP resolution. Due to their...

iFixit is out with another teardown and unsurprisingly, it's about the newly released "budget" iPhone XR. There's a video going through the process of disassembling the handset and also a full step-by-step guide at the source link below. But...

MediaTek is following up on its AI-centric P60 chipset with a new more polished platform. The Helio P70 promises a 10-30% boost in AI tasks and a 13% improvement on general tasks. That said, things haven’t changed that much from the P60. The new...

Samsung has filed a patent that describes a way to turn the entire display of a phone into a fingerprint reader. Current in-display fingerprint readers are not any bigger than the old readers and are fixed in place, so they are not as convenient as...

After the Google Pixel 3 XL teardown from iFixit, here comes the Pixel 3 disassembly. The smaller brother appears to be built similarly to the XL, but there are some key differences such as the LG OLED screen. The repairability score is the same...