Galaxy F14 5G goes official with 5nm chip, 6,000mAh battery

Samsung launched the Galaxy F14 5G in India today. It is a slightly modified version of the Galaxy A14 5G that was launched a few weeks ago. The new smartphone comes with more competitive pricing and a bigger battery, which a lot of consumers would like. Let us have a look at all its features. […]

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Exynos Connect U100 is Samsung’s first UWB chip for phones, cars, and more

Samsung has unveiled its first UWB chip, the Exynos Connect U100. And with this new chip, the South Korean firm has also announced its Exynos Connect branding for semiconductor chips that offer short-range wireless connectivity such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and UWB. We expect more such wireless connectivity chips to be added to the Exynos Connect […]

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Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra large battery and overclocked chip tipped off

More signs point to Samsung releasing a new Galaxy Tab flagship tablet series later this year. And according to new bits of information shared by one Twitter tipster, the Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra should have the same battery capacity as the Tab S8 Ultra and be powered by an overclocked “for Galaxy” Snapdragon chipset. The […]

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Xiaomi and Realme confirm upcoming SD 7+ Gen 2 phones, tipster suggests another chip is on the way

Qualcomm just announced its Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset for upper-midrange phones and now Xiaomi and Realme have confirmed their first phones set to utilize the latest SoC. The official Weibo pages for both brands confirmed their upcoming devices will be the Redmi Note 12 Turbo and Realme GT Neo5 SE. In addition, tipster Yogesh […]

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Qualcomm new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chip supports Samsung’s 200MP cameras

Qualcomm has unveiled a new premium chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2. It succeeds last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor, which proved to be quite unpopular. The new chipset aims to offer flagship-grade performance, owing to its 50% faster CPU and 200% faster GPU, and will mainly be used in gaming smartphones and affordable […]

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Samsung to invest $230 billion to make world’s biggest chip factory

Samsung has announced that it plans to invest around a whopping $230 billion over the next 20 years to boost its semiconductor chip-making business. With this investment, the South Korean firm wants to build the world’s biggest semiconductor chip factory in South Korea. This plan is a part of the South Korean government’s vision to […]

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Samsung fires 3% of its employees from chip division in the US

The tech world is going through an economic tsunami. There are layoffs going on in major tech companies across the world, where employees are fired left, right, and center. Samsung, the big tech giant from Korea, joins this list and has fired around 3% of the employees at its US semiconductor subsidiary. According to BusinessKorea, […]

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This Intel chip just broke the Cinebench R23 world record, beating out an AMD Threadripper

What you need to know The Intel Xeon W9-3495X processor recently broke the Cinebench R23 world record. The top spot was previously held by the AMD Threadripper 5995WX. The Xeon W9-3495X earned the highest Cinebench R23 score to date even though it features fewer cores and threads than the previous record holder. Intel just set […]

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Samsung loses manufacturing contract for one more Qualcomm chip

Qualcomm has just teased the date for its next launch event, and rumors indicate that the company will unveil the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 on March 17, 2023. It is the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor and is expected to bring faster performance and efficiency. But it’s terrible news for Samsung’s […]

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Apple’s Huge 3nm Chip Orders for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs Helping to Maintain TSMC’s Fab Utilization Rates

Apple supplier TSMC is making strides to improve its production capacity for chips based on its cutting-edge 3-nanometer process technology, according to industry sources, which is expected to debut in this year’s iPhone 15 Pro and upcoming MacBook models. DigiTimes reports that TSMC’s 5nm fabrication capacity began to loosen in November 2022 as a result […]

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New MacBook Airs and 13-Inch MacBook Pro Will Reportedly Feature M3 Chip

Apple’s next-generation 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models will both be equipped with an M3 chip, according to 9to5Mac sources. The report claims that Apple is also planning to release an updated version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 chip. The unannounced M3 chip will have an 8-core CPU like the M2 chip, […]

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iPhone 15 Pro’s Next-Gen Chip Capabilities Expected to Spark Upgrade Demand Among Current iPhone Owners

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro models may spark a “replacement demand” among owners of older iPhones, due to the significant improvements enabled by the A17 processor, Apple’s first iPhone chip based on TSMC’s first-generation 3-nanometer process. That’s according to suppliers involved in Apple’s iPhone supply chain. Quoting from the latest DigiTimes industry report: TSMC’s N3E […]

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Samsung makes Galaxy A14 4G official with MediaTek chip, 10W charging

A month after unveiling the Galaxy A14 5G, Samsung has silently introduced the Galaxy A14 4G (via FoneArena). Although this smartphone looks similar to its 5G sibling, it offers lower specifications in almost all the important ways. As the name suggests, it lacks 5G connectivity. It also uses a slower processor, a lower refresh rate […]

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Qualcomm CEO Expects Apple’s 5G Chip to Start Rolling Out Next Year

Speaking at the MWC 2023 conference today, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Apple’s rumored 5G chip could be ready next year. “We expect that Apple will do their own modem in 2024, but if they need ours they know where to find us,” said Amon, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal‘s Joanna Stern. […]

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Galaxy S24’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip might debut earlier than expected

Qualcomm made a custom processor called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 For Galaxy for the Galaxy S23. It is an overclocked version of the standard Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which is usually the case with the Plus version of the chipset. So, it could very well be the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 model. […]

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Samsung is borrowing $16 billion to help its struggling chip division

Samsung’s chip business has long been the company’s cash cow. It has contributed tens of billions of dollars in profit to the company’s coffers but has recently been struggling. That’s largely due to both the demand and price of chips plunging significantly in the second half of 2022. The company has been investing heavily in […]

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15-Inch MacBook Air Will Reportedly Have M2 Chip

Apple’s rumored 15-inch MacBook Air will be equipped with the M2 chip, according to Taiwanese supply chain publication DigiTimes. The report claims the laptop will be released in the second quarter of 2023, which runs from April through June. “Industry sources said the 15-inch MacBook Air began mass production after the Lunar New Year and […]

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Galaxy S23 using a Qualcomm chip reveals Samsung’s Exynos problems

Everyone (including us) got extremely excited after hearing that there won’t be Exynos versions of the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung’s newest smartphones exclusively use a custom version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, called Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy. And this chipset has done wonders for Samsung. Early […]

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What to Expect From Apple This Spring: New Mac Pro With M2 Ultra Chip and More

February has been a relatively quiet month for Apple so far beyond the new HomePod arriving to customers, but things should pick up soon. Apple is rumored to have at least two new product announcements planned for the period of March through June, including a new Mac Pro and its long-awaited AR/VR headset. Apple often […]

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Galaxy S24’s Snapdragon chip could be more powerful than Apple’s A16

Multiple reports suggest that Samsung will only use Qualcomm processors in its flagship smartphones for the next two years. That means the Galaxy S24 will most likely use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. Although the details about the chip are scarce at the moment, an image showing its Geekbench score has appeared online. If […]

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