ARM’s new business strategy could drive up prices of Galaxy phones

Arm Holdings (ARM), the UK-based firm responsible for semiconductor chip designs utilized in over 95% of all smartphones worldwide, including Samsung’s, is looking to change how it charges brands for its chip designs. This change in business strategy comes ahead of the company’s preparation for the IPO (Initial Public Offering) in New York this year, […]

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Windows Central Podcast #304: Office AI Copilot and cheap Windows on ARM laptops

We’re back with another exciting episode of the Windows Central Podcast, and on this week’s episode, Dan and Zac discuss Microsoft Office’s new AI ‘Copilot’, OpenAI unveiling GPT-4, Dell’s shockingly affordable Windows on ARM laptop, review the HP Dragonfly Pro, and more! Links Indeed: Hire better with Indeed. Visit indeed.com/wcp to start hiring now. Hosts: […]

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Microsoft News Roundup: Copilot in Microsoft 365, ‘Adults Only’ Xbox controller, Dell ARM laptop, and GPT-4 powering Bing

Microsoft continues to roll out and announce new AI features, many of which topped the headlines this week. The tech giant unveiled Copilot for several Microsoft 365 apps during a live event this week. It also confirmed that the new Bing is powered by GPT-4. In addition to AI news, Dell launched its first Windows […]

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Renesas to Demonstrate First AI Implementations on the Arm Cortex-M85 Processor Featuring Helium Technology at Embedded World

Renesas Electronics Corporation will present the first live demonstrations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) implementations on an MCU based on the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor. The demos will show the performance uplift in AI/ML applications made possible by the new Cortex-M85 core and Arm’s Helium technology. They will take place in the Renesas […]

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Samsung speeding up the development of its own CPU

According to the latest report, Samsung is all set to develop its own in-house Central Processing Unit (CPU) that it will use on its Galaxy smartphones and Galaxy Book PCs. This important move has reportedly been taken by the South Korean tech giant to reduce the overall reliance on the British chip manufacturing company ARM. There […]

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A Stroke Paralyzed Her Arm. This Implant Let Her Use It Again

“This is very exciting,” says Jason Carmel, a motor system neuroscientist at Columbia University who wasn’t involved in the study. “It opens up a potential treatment avenue that we’ve never had before for people with chronic stroke.”  Stroke is the most common cause of disability in adults. Worldwide, one in four people over the age of […]

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Samsung Electronics to borrow a few billion dollars from Display arm

Today, Samsung Electronics revealed through a regulatory filing that it wants to borrow “a few” billion dollars from Samsung Display. The company intends to get a loan of 20 trillion won ($15,76 billion) from its display arm and is willing to pay interest. Samsung Electronics intends to borrow the $15 billion at a 4.6% interest […]

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Use this Intel app to sync your Android, iPhone with Windows 11 PC

While you can link your Android phone with your Windows 11 PC, including your Galaxy laptop, through Microsoft’s Phone Link app, there wasn’t any way to link an iPhone to your Windows PC. Well, Intel now has a solution for it. Intel has announced the Unison app for Android, iOS, and Windows, which will allow […]

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Lenovo ThinkPad X13s : un ultraportable Arm premium doté d’une bonne autonomie

Le Lenovo Thinkpad X13s, annoncé au Mobile Word Congress (MWC) en février dernier, est le premier ordinateur portable équipé de la puce Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 de Qualcomm. Il s’agit de la puce sur laquelle est basé le SQ3 de Microsoft – qu’on retrouve dans la Surface Pro 9 avec 5G. Tournant sous Windows 11 sur Arm (Famille ou Professionnel) […]

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ARM CPUs predicted to hit 30% PC market share by 2026

What you need to know ARM-powered PCs will make up 30% of the PC market by 2026, according to market analyst firm Canalys. The same firm predicts that half of cloud processors will be ARM-based by 2026 as well. Apple transitioned to ARM processors recently and Windows 11 on ARM has gained momentum this year. […]

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Qualcomm announces ‘Oryon’ next-gen ARM CPU, Citi adopting Snapdragon PCs

  At the annual Qualcomm Summit, the company revealed the name of its next-gen Nuvia-based CPU called Oryon. No other details about Oryon were given, as the processors are not expected to ship until early 2024. Citi announced that it is transitioning a large segment of its global users to Qualcomm-based computers including the new […]

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Google’s Tensor G3 could be a custom version of Exynos 2300, made by Samsung

Google launched the Pixel 7 series with the Tensor G2 chipset. While it has been only a month since the phones were out, rumors about the next generation have already started floating on the internet. In August, we reported that Samsung would make Google’s third-generation Tensor chip using its 3nm process. In line with that report, […]

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MediaTek Dimensity 9200 is here – TSMC N4P node, Arm Cortex-X3 and ray tracing

MediaTek unveiled its latest flagship chipset – the Dimensity 9200 and it brings several firsts to the smartphone industry. This is the first chipset to launch with the Arm Cortex-X3 prime core clocked at 3.05 Ghz and based on the ARMv9 architecture. The CPU also brings 3x Arm Cortex-A715 cores clocked at 2.85GHz and 4x […]

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Windows Central Podcast #290: Windows on ARM, Pro 9, Volterra, Twitter

We’re back with another exciting episode of the Windows Central Podcast, and this week, Dan and Zac discuss Satya Nadella’s big payday, the current state of Windows on ARM and where it’s headed next, 30 years of ThinkPad, ongoing Twitter controversies, and so much more! Links Indeed: Choose Indeed and join 3 million companies worldwide […]

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Is Samsung-AMD GPU collab for Exynos chips in danger?

Last year, AMD and Samsung announced that they’ve co-developed an RDNA2-based GPU for Exynos chipsets. And the first chipset with such a GPU is the Exynos 2200, which debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S22 series. However, the AMD-Samsung collaboration might be in danger, and we might not see AMD GPUs inside Exynos chipsets […]

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Next-gen chips from MediaTek, Qualcomm could surpass Apple’s A16 SoC in GPU performance

After a series of disappointments with its Exynos chipsets, Samsung has reportedly decided to use the Snapdragon chipset exclusively in the Galaxy S23. But how good will that Snapdragon chipset be? Will it be as good as Apple’s latest chip used in the iPhone 14 Pro? Well, it looks like it could be even better. […]

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Unity announces native game engine support for Windows on ARM

What you need to know Unity shared its commitment to bring its Unity Player to Windows on ARM natively. The tool will allow developers to target Windows on ARM devices when creating games. Unity did not share a timeframe for when it will release a version of Unity Player that’s optimized for Windows on ARM. […]

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MediaTek’s Dimensity 1080 chipset brings 200MP camera support to budget phones

Mid-range smartphones these days not only boast good performance but also come with high-resolution cameras. And most likely, the chip inside such mid-range or budget smartphones is the one from MediaTek. After releasing some top-tier chipsets, MediaTek finally unveiled the Dimensity 1080, which is the successor to last year’s popular Dimensity 920 processor. The MediaTek […]

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Softbank has reportedly not asked Samsung to invest in ARM

There has been a lot of speculation about the future of British chip designer ARM after NVIDIA’s deal to acquire the company fell through due to anti-trust concerns. Japan’s Softbank owns ARM and it has since been considering several options including an IPO. The other option is to put together a consortium of the industry’s […]

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SoftBank CEO wants a strategic alliance between Samsung and ARM

We recently reported that although Samsung and SK Hynix were among the front runners in the acquisition of the UK-based chip designer ARM, Samsung may back out of this race because of antitrust issues and the increased acquisition price. The latest report now suggests that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is seeking a strategic alliance between SoftBank-owned […]

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