Earlier this week, Qualcomm announced its latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile chip and platform, promising to “revolutionize flagship smartphones” with “groundbreaking” experiences. The new chip is expected to launch in flagship Android smartphones later this year, but benchmarks suggest it cannot compete with Apple’s A16 Bionic chip, which powers iPhone 14 Pro models. While […]
Read MoreSamsung Foundry and TSMC continue leading the duopoly on chipset manufacturing. In Q1 2022, TSMC had a shipment share of 69.9%, while Samsung Foundry captured a 30% share. However, in terms of advanced nodes used for smartphone chipset manufacturing, Samsung took the lead in Q1 with a 60% share. TSMC registered higher total shipments for […]
Read MoreThe new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip appears to be faster than a base model Mac Pro in benchmarks, despite costing nearly $5,000 less. In an apparent Geekbench 5 result that surfaced on Wednesday, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro achieved a multi-core score of 8,928, while the standard Mac Pro configuration with an […]
Read MoreApple’s event has just wrapped up! Check out our recap of everything Apple announced. The first benchmark for Apple’s M1 Ultra chip popped up on Geekbench following today’s event, confirming that the doubled-up M1 Max is indeed able to outperform the highest-end Mac Pro as Apple claims. Labeled Mac13,2, the Mac Studio with 20-core M1 […]
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