Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

Everyone knows that Apple's Face ID technology used in the iPhone X is one of the most secure solutions out there. It uses the so-called 3D Structured-Light technology, but only a few Android smartphones have that due to the cost of production....

Huawei announced it's top-shelf chipset, the HiSilicon Kirin 980, which brought a lot of world's firsts. What the company failed to mention were some key details about the SoC and the operating frequencies of the CPU clusters was among...

As per tradition, Huawei just announced its high-performance flagship SoC at this year's IFA in Berlin - the HiSilicon Kirin 980 that's expected to power up the upcoming Mate 20-series. The key selling point of is that it's world's first 7nm-based...

This year's iPhones and iPads will use chips made by TSMC. Back in 2014, TSMC invested $9 billion and hired 6,000 workers in just 11 months to meet the demand from Apple and this year, the Taiwanese company will depend on the Cupertino-based firm to...

Qualcomm has confirmed the rumors that the Snapdragon 855 chipset will be built on a 7nm process at the TSMC foundries. Low-volume manufacturing is already underway and Qualcomm’s customer companies have already received samples. Previously, the...

Earlier this year ARM unveiled the Cortex-A76, which promised 35% boost in performance. This core will be out later this year, but there’s much more to come – the company announced a road map for 7nm and 5nm cores and is not shy about making...

Samsung has been working on its 5G modem for some time now and was first showcased during this year's CES. Today, the company formally announced the finished product and called it Exynos 5100. It's the companys's first 5G modem and complies to the...

Everyone interested in mobile phones knows that Samsung makes one of the best - if not the best - OLED panels. Every Samsung flagship for years has offered great viewing experience, so no wonder every OEM wants to get its hands on the Korean firm's...

It's no secret that Huawei is working on a successor to its Kirin 970 chipset and will stick it inside the upcoming Mate 20 lineup. Oh, and if the leaked benchmark results from April are to be believed, we expect great performance and power...

Samsung dominates the OLED market for portable devices with 90% of all sales - LG struggles is a very distant second with just 7.7%. How the entry of a third major player will change this is an interesting question and one Sharp has decided to find...

Samsung introduced its LPDDR5 RAM, but there’s still room in the market for the older standard – LPDDR4X. Today the company unveils the second generation of 4X chips, which deliver 4,266 megabits per second. These are 16 gigabit chips – that’s...

The Huawei INE-X2 – better known as the nova 3i – has been put through Geekbench, which gives us a first glimpse at the performance of the Kirin 710 inside and allows for an early comparison with the Snapdragon 710. The Kirin 710 is a 12nm chip,...

The Qualcomm X50 modem promises stunning speeds of 5Gbps, but it will need the right antennas to get there. The company just unveiled its first antennas for millimeter wave and for sub-6GHz communication. What’s the difference? Millimeter...

2018 iPhones are coming in September, just like every year, so TSMC is gearing up to mass produce the next chip from the A-series. And it seems that the semiconductor manufacturer is optimistic about this year's lineup. Despite the rather...

Today, Huawei announced its mid-tier nova 3i smartphone and the staple is the in-house HiSilicon Kirin 710 chipset. The Kirin 710 was a long overdue release as last year's 16nm Kirin 659 SoC was losing its competitive edge. The Kirin 710, on the...

Earlier this year Samsung started making GDDR6 memory chips on a “10nm class” process for graphics cards and now the foundry is cranking out the industry’s first 8 gigabit LPDDR5 chips for next-gen phones. Note: “10nm class” means “between 10nm...

The Snapdragon 710 is a rather curious new beast. It is the ambassador, of sorts, to Qualcomm's fresh lineup of 700 series chips, unveiled back in February. Currently, we have only heard news of one other 7 series chip - the Snapdragon 730. It...

Even though MediaTek dropped the triple core configuration setup on its chipsets, Samsung seems keen to give it a try. The latest rumor going around by leakster Ice Universe claims that the next in-house made Exynos 9820 will incorporate two of the...

Samsung has been a leading memory manufacturer for years and today the company announced that it's starting production of its next-generation V-NAND memory chips. This is the fifth iteration of the technology and the key feature here is the adoption...

Samsung Foundry and ARM have announced a partnership to build chipsets based on the Cortex-A76 core at a 7nm LPP process and later moving to 5nm LPE. These chips will have CPU clock speeds beyond 3 GHz. The initial production run for the 7nm...