Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

Shortly after news broke about Intel exiting the 5G modem business, Apple was forced to settle with Qualcomm and use its chips for its future iPhones. But no one said anything about Samsung being the second supplier for the Cupertino-based...

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 730 only a couple of weeks ago, but a 735 appears to be on the timeline as well. What looks like an internal document details the future chipset's key specs. The chip will allegedly be built on a 7nm...

Last week, there were reports that Huawei might sell 5G modems to Apple, which currently has no way to source such chips. Today, at a Q&A session Huawei representatives squashed such rumors, saying: “We have no change in our chipset strategy, and...

Samsung just announced that it has successfully completed the development of its next-gen 5nm EUV manufacturing process and it's ready to ship samples. Samsung claims that the 5nm node boasts 25% better logic area efficiency with 20% lower...

Huawei quietly announced a new MateBook laptop at an ongoing conference in Shanghai. This one is the 2019 MateBook E – which is a 2-in-1 convertible laptop running Windows 10. But the biggest difference with the model this year is it no longer...

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 665 and 730 to bolster its mid-range lineup, but how do they compare to the existing models – 660, 670, 675 and 710? The Snapdragon 730 is significantly faster than the 710, offering up to 25% extra performance....

The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G isn't out yet but one of the first, if not the first, teardown videos just popped up. It takes you through the whole process of disassembly and shows off all the internals of the phone so if you like hardware videos, go...

Xiaomi’s Pinecone subsidiary, which designed the company’s first in-house chipset, the Surge S1, is being reorganized. Part of it will be split off under the name Dayu (“big fish”) to focus on developing AI-enhanced chipsets for IoT applications...

Taiwan’s Electronic Times reports that both Qualcomm and Samsung have turned down the opportunity to supply 5G modems for Apple. Given the global patent war between Apple and Qualcomm, the San Diego company’s snub is not a huge surprise. Samsung,...

An unexpected leak just appeared on Weibo giving away some details regarding an upcoming Exynos chipset - the Exynos 9710. The info comes from Ice Universe, who has solid track record with Samsung-related leaks. We are looking at a pretty powerful...

The Huawei Mate 30 could be become the first smartphone to ship with a chipset built with an Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. That chipset will be the Kirin 985 and will be produced at the TSMC foundries. It will still be a 7nm chip, however...

Samsung is on a streak here. After launching the production of 512GB eUFS 3.0 memory chips, the company is now kick-starting the production of 12GB DRAM modules for usage in smartphones. They are based on the LPDDR4X standard and use the advanced...

With the new wave of 48MP mobile camera sensors and devices like the Nokia 9 PureView and its five or even six, depending on how you count, snapper setup, it is pretty clear that the mobile industry is still actively experimenting and pushing camera...

MediaTek will announce a 5G-capable chipset later this year. It will be built on a 7nm process and will aim for a more premium segment of the market. The company executives didn’t go into detail, but they did say that it will be a better performer...

Intel and the USB-IF have announced the next evolution in “do it all” cables – USB4. It will double the available bandwidth over the newly-renamed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 to 40Gbps. With that much throughput, a single cable can handle multiple simultaneous...

Not long after the announcement of the new Samsung Galaxy S10-series, the company is moving forward with another big announcement. One would argue that it's just as important for the whole mobile industry. We are talking about the first 512GB eUFS...

Few battles on the smartphone scene are quite as volatile as the charging one. We seem to be at an interesting juncture with many proprietary technologies, like Super VOOC outpacing more traditional players like Quick Charge in raw performance. All...

Less than a year after the SD Express standard was announced, the fast PCIe-based technology has come to the tiny microSD form factor. It will use the second row of pins of UHS-II style cards to enable NVMe v1.3 connectivity. microSD Express...

JEDEC or the Solid State Technology Association has just announced the new LPDDR5 RAM chips promising improved performance and power efficiency for future smartphones. Compared to the current LPDDR4, the LPDDR5 brings double the data rate...

Qualcomm unveiled its second generation 5G modem – the Snapdragon X55. It pushes wireless speeds up to 7Gbps, but more importantly it also supports 4G LTE as well as “legacy” technologies like 3G and 2G. The X55 supports both flavors of 5G,...