Samsung Foundry has been trying very hard to compete against TSMC, the undisputed contract chip manufacturing leader, particularly on the advanced nodes. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year by top chip designers like Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, and many more to have their chips made at foundries, since they don’t have their own. […]
Samsung and Qualcomm both attach a lot of importance to their longstanding partnership, evidenced by the fact that the head of Samsung’s mobile division, TM Roh, made an in-person appearance on stage during the ongoing Snapdragon Summit 2024, where Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite. “We love Samsung,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said as he […]
Read MoreQualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset earlier this week at the ongoing Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Maui, Hawaii. It’s a big launch for the company as this is the first time that its custom Oryon cores have been integrated into its mobile platform. Qualcomm did say last year that it would bring Oryon […]
Read MoreSamsung has already been leading the Android OEMs in offering some of the best Android OS upgrade support. Its latest high-end devices are supported for seven years, ensuring that customers can enjoy new features for a considerable amount of time, if they don’t decide to upgrade their phone for the next seven years. There’s a […]
Read More[Update] A spokesperson from Qualcomm has provided us with the following statement: This is more of the same from ARM – more unfounded threats designed to strongarm a longtime partner, interfere with our performance-leading CPUs, and increase royalty rates regardless of the broad rights under our architecture license. With a trial fast approaching in December, […]
Read MoreQualcomm announced the most bonkers Snapdragon chip for flagship Android smartphones today. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a giant leap in everything from gaming to AI performance thanks to Qualcomm’s custom Oryon cores, and the new chip is considerably more efficient as well. Qualcomm confirmed that Samsung will be among the manufacturers who will launch […]
Read MoreSamsung Foundry has been finding it difficult to compete with TSMC. Some of the world’s leading chip designers are opting for the latter to get their chips fabricated. This means that Samsung loses out on billions of dollars in business, despite having invested significant sums in its foundry to provide manufacturing capacity for advanced chips. […]
Read MoreRecent Samsung flagships, including the Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6, have all used a slightly overclocked version of Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line chipset. While everyone else got the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Samsung’s flagships got the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy. It was the same deal with the previous iteration […]
Read MoreLast year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was a considerable leap forward for generative AI on mobile devices. With the demand for these features booming more than ever, the mobile platforms have to evolve to power the next wave of complex generative AI features. The latest Snapdragon 8 Elite makes significant improvements to the Qualcomm AI […]
Read MoreQualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset brings some incredible improvements that will undoubtedly make the gaming experience on next-generation flagship smartphones unlike anything that we’ve experienced before. Much of it has been derived from the architecture improvements that Qualcomm has made to the new chipset, which includes the company’s first-ever Adreno GPU with a sliced […]
Read MoreThere’s a lot that Qualcomm’s new chipset improves upon but what a lot of people were particularly interested in were the improvements made to the camera capabilities. It’s safe to say that the Snapdragon 8 Elite is exceeding expectations in this department, as it brings AI photography features, that were previously available only in the […]
Read MoreQualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset at the Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Hawaii, and as expected, it’s an impressive platform that delivers incredible advancements for mobile performance, gaming, photography, and artificial intelligence. Mobile device manufacturers will now be using this chipset to bring new flagship devices to the market. It has now been […]
Read MoreQualcomm said at the Snapdragon Summit last year that it would bring the Snapdragon X Elite’s bonkers custom Oryon cores to mobile in 2024. Today, at Snapdragon Summit 2024, it has followed through on that promise. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipset, and as promised, it features the custom Oryon cores, bringing […]
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