Table of Contents Table of Contents Picking the right phones Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. Dimensity 9400: Performance Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. Dimensity 9400: Battery Do the differences truly matter in the real world? Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. Dimensity 9400: Which is better? If you’re planning on buying an Android flagship smartphone over the next year … Read more
The Samsung Galaxy S25 series rumor mill has been turbulent, and that’s putting it lightly. An unbelievable amount of information has emerged about this phone, but one debate that was never settled is whether it would use the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip or the Exynos 2400 chip. Now we have an answer thanks to leaked … Read more
China’s decision to launch an antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia over a US$6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli networking products and solutions provider Mellanox Technologies, which it approved five years ago, is raising questions about the message Beijing wants to send and what results it is trying to achieve. The high-profile probe could be … Read more
The biggest news about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7 foldable continues to be its likely chipset. Once again, there’s a rumor that says the company is ditching Qualcomm and instead using an in-house Exynos chip on the new phone, which is expected to launch sometime next summer. According to The Elec, the Galaxy Z Flip … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents Performance Battery life Both last a long time, but Qualcomm maintains performance This was a turbulent year in the world of Windows laptops. The introduction of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips completely changed the game — and I don’t say that lightly. They entered the market in such a forceful … Read more
Intel’s interim co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus spoke at Barclay’s Global Technology Conference yesterday and made some bold claims about Qualcomm PCs and the rise of the Arm ecosystem in general. According to her, a large percentage of Qualcomm PCs are being returned by customers and retailers are very concerned about it. More specifically, she called … Read more
A post on the Chinese social media site Weibo has revealed an upcoming mini PC from Geekom — and it’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. Since Qualcomm scrapped its own plans for a similar product, this will be the first-ever X Elite-powered mini PC to hit the market. The product itself looks just … Read more
Apple’s first in-house cellular modem will reportedly start appearing in iPhones and iPads next year. The move, which kicks into action with the 2025 iPhone SE refresh, is aimed at helping Apple end its reliance on other suppliers for the part. The shift, however, also frees up more wiggle room for its engineers to experiment with … Read more
The four bodies – the Internet Society of China, the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Semiconductor Industry Association and the China Association of Communication Enterprises – on Tuesday issued statements within minutes of each other, urging their members to be “cautious” about buying chips from American suppliers, following the Biden administration’s fresh sanctions. … Read more
Sales of Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship Mate 70-series smartphones are expected to fall short of the demand generated by the Mate 60, according to analysts, citing the new model’s weaker processor performance and heightened supply chain risks amid geopolitical tensions. The Mate 70 was launched last Tuesday at an event in Shenzhen, where Huawei consumer … Read more
