Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

Chip-manufacturing company TSMC reported a record Q4, with a 16.4% rise in profit. The company expects record chip demand in the coming years and is going ahead with its 2021 plan for a $100b expansion of its facilities. TSMC has earmarked...

Remember Samsung's Galaxy Home smart speakers? You'll be forgiven for answering no, but apparently Samsung plans on having another go at them. Per Max Jambor on Twitter, Samsung is working on a new Galaxy Home Mini 2 speaker. So far Samsung has...

The Exynos 2200 was supposed to be unveiled yesterday, but that didn’t happen and rumors started circulating of issues behind the scenes. Now a Samsung official has reached out to Business Korea to clarify the reason behind the change of plans –...

Samsung Semiconductor was supposed to unveil the Exynos 2200 today, but leakster Ice Universe reports that the launch has been postponed. Indeed, the original tweet that pinpointed the January 11 date has been deleted from the company's official...

Xiaomi’s 12 Pro was one of the last devices announced in 2021 and among the first with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and PBKreviews is here to give us an inside look at the flagship. The big brother to the Xiaomi 12 packs some impressive hardware...

Tecno teased its sensor shift IS technology for smartphone cameras back in mid-December and is now announcing a telescopic macro lens that promises to significantly improve not only the quality of macro shots but also the whole experience taking...

Back in October, Intel detailed its new desktop-bound 12th-gen Alder Lake chips and now it's bringing its H chips to laptops. The new processors are based on a hybrid design with up to 6 performance cores and up to 8 efficiency cores. This is the...

The Exynos 2200 is coming sooner than expected – the new flagship chipset with AMD graphics will debut on January 11. This is the week after CES and the rumored date for the Galaxy S21 FE launch. Of course, the FE will use the older Snapdragon...

We'll just start by saying that, in case it isn't apparent, this design cannot be considered a serious indication of an actual product that is on its way. Companies the likes of Samsung tend to patent a lot of things. Many of those patents don't...

Smart wearables have been adopting more and more health-related features, and after several companies introducing ECG to their watches, Samsung decided to go one step further and introduce a blood pressure-measuring to the Watch3 through a small...

MediaTek has gotten bold – it published a video showing a Dimensity 9000-powered device running various popular benchmarks, throwing the gauntlet at Qualcomm. Long story short, the Dimensity wins the CPU battle, but loses the GPU battle. The margins...

Mediatek issued a press release earlier this week, confirming at least four major smartphone manufacturers will bring phones with Dimensity 9000 in Q1 2022. Today Honor took it to Weibo to assure its fans a phone will come with the flagship...

Over 9 months after it announced its new Munich-based chip design plant, Apple has begun hiring engineers with experience in the modem chips and wireless semiconductor business in Irvine, California. A recent Bloomber report confirms the development...

At today’s press conference MediaTek confirmed that the hotly anticipated Dimensity 9000 chipset will be used in the Oppo Find X4 and Redmi K50 phones. At the same event the company also teased a new chip, the Dimensity 8000, which will be a lower...

The MediaTek Dimensity 9000 is one of the most hotly anticipated chipsets for 2022 flagships. Built on a 4nm node by TSMC and with ARMv9 hardware to match the flagship chips from Qualcomm and Samsung, it will be a close fight. One battle may have...

Tecno partnered with Samsung to bring an RGBW sensor to its upcoming phones. That, as it turns out, is only one of three camera innovations coming to future models from the company – it will also adopt sensor shift image stabilization as well as...

Day one of Oppo’s Inno Day has concluded and we saw several noteworthy developments on stage with the new Air Glass aR monocle and MariSilicon X NPU. In addition to these, Oppo also showcased its retractable rear camera prototype device. The big...

While day one of Oppo’s Inno is already in the books, Korean outlet TheElec is giving out details about the Oppo Find N which is expected to be star of tomorrow's day two event. Based on the report, Samsung Display is the main supplier for Oppo’s...

Oppo just announced its MariSilicon NPU based on the 6nm manufacturing process. Its main goal is to improve the quality of photos and videos as well as further expand the feature set of its cameras. The first phones to adopt it is going to be the...

In a short Weibo post, Xiaomi revealed a new battery tech the R&D team has been working on and it should be made available next year. The machine-translated Chinese might be a little bit off but from what we gather, Xiaomi was able to increase the...