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Apple to Kick Off M5 Chip Development in H1 2025 With Separate CPU-GPU Design: Ming-Chi Kuo
Apple will kick off the mass production of its M5 family of chipsets next year, according to claims by a supply chain analyst. Its volume production is tipped to take place leveraging TSMC’s 3nm semiconductor node (N3) which may offer performance gains and increased efficiency compared to the previous manufacturing process. Apple is also speculat...
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Lenovo Sets Gaming Handheld Event for CES, Hints at SteamOS-Based Lenovo Legion Go S
Lenovo has reportedly been working on the successor to the Lenovo Legion Go, its Windows-based gaming handheld. The manufacturer has remained tight-lipped about its next portable gaming device, said to be the Lenovo Legion Go S, but recent leaks have revealed design details of the Legion Go follow-up. Now, Lenovo seems to have confirmed its next ha...
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Smartphone Firms to Drop Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 for Chipmaker's Affordable Alternative in 2025, Tipster Claims
Smartphone makers could equip some of their upcoming models with a less powerful high-end processor in 2025, according to a tipster. The successor to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 could arrive on next generation high-end smartphones, as the Snapdragon 8s Elite, as companies look to cut costs on some of their handsets.
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Google Chrome Doubles Speedometer Benchmark Scores on Android Devices
Google Chrome runs twice as fast on Android smartphones than it did in April 2023, according to the company. According to Google, Chrome will now run even faster, especially on Android devices, after it recently doubled its score on the popular Speedometer benchmark test. Here's how Google optimised Chrome to run faster on Android phones.
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Apple's 5x Periscope Telephoto Camera Will Remain Exclusive to iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max: Report
Apple's iPhone 17 lineup is at least an year away from launch, however, speculations about the camera capabilities of the iPhone 17 series are now doing rounds on the Web. A recent leak suggests that Apple will keep periscope cameras exclusive to the Pro models next year. LG Innotek, an electronic component manufacturer, is reportedly investing in ...
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iPhone 17 Air to Be Apple's Thinnest-Ever Phone; A19 Chips to Be Built Using TSMC’s New Technology: Report
Apple is believed to discontinue the iPhone Plus model next year and replace it with an iPhone 17 Slim version. A well-known analyst now states that the purported iPhone 17 Slim will be thinner than the iPhone 6. Additionally, the analysts claimed that Apple's next-generation A19 chips for the iPhone 17 lineup will be manufactured using TSMC's thir...
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TSMC to Suspend Production of Advanced AI Chips for China From November 11: Report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has informed Chinese chip design firms that it is halting production of their most sophisticated AI chips starting November 11, according to a Financial Times report. The chipmaker informed its Chinese clients that it will not produce AI chips on advanced process nodes of 7nm or less, as per the report.
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Maruti Suzuki, Qualcomm Join Forces for Use of Snapdragon Elite Chips in Vehicles: Report
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest automotive manufacturer, is partnering with Qualcomm for the use of the new Snapdragon Elite automotive chips in its fleet of future vehicles, according to a report. It is speculated that Snapdragon’s new automotive chips could power a host of advanced safety systems, connected car technologies and other technolog...
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Xiaomi Likely to Launch First Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 SoC-Powered Smartphone at Indian Mobile Congress 2024
Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 processor for the mobile platform debuted in India at the Snapdragon for India event in July as a budget-friendly 5G chipset. Now, Xiaomi will become the first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to launch a handset with this new chipset, according to a report. The purported handset is touted as an entry-level offering and is ...
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TSMC’s Sales Beat Estimates in Good Sign for AI Chip Demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) posted a better-than-expected 39 percent rise in quarterly revenue. Hsinchu-based TSMC is one of the key companies at the heart of a global surge in spending on AI development.
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Samsung Electronics Says It Is Not Interested in Spinning Off Foundry Business
Samsung chairperson Jay Y. Lee has said that the company is not looking to spin off its businesses of contract chip manufacturing and logic chip designing operation. Analysts say the two businesses are incurring billions of dollars of annual losses due to weak demand and have been dragging down Samsung's overall performance.
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India To Become Next Chip Manufacturing Hub: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that India is moving towards becoming the next semiconductor hub for the world as big investment is happening in this sector in the country.
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iPhone 16 Pro Max Bill of Materials is 7 Percent Higher Than iPhone 15 Pro Max: Report
iPhone 16 series was unveiled last month and teardown videos and durability tests of the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are currently doing rounds on the Web. Most recently, the bill of materials (BOM) details of the iPhone 16 Pro Max have surfaced online, revealing the total manufacturing cost of the device. The BOM...
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Arm Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Purchase of Chipmaker's Product Unit
Arm Holdings approached Intel about potentially buying the ailing chipmaker’s product division, only to be told that the business isn’t for sale. Intel is separating the chip product division from its manufacturing operations.
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PM Modi, US President Biden Announce Plans for New Chip Plant in India
The US and India reached an agreement to work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in India. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White House readout that followed a meeting between the US President Joe Biden and PM Modi in Delaware on Saturday.
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Apple to Kick Off M5 Chip Development in H1 2025 With Separate CPU-GPU Design: Ming-Chi Kuo
Apple will kick off the mass production of its M5 family of chipsets next year, according to claims by a supply chain analyst. Its volume production is tipped to take place leveraging TSMC’s 3nm semiconductor node (N3) which may offer performance gains and increased efficiency compared to the previous manufacturing process. Apple is also speculat...
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Lenovo Sets Gaming Handheld Event for CES, Hints at SteamOS-Based Lenovo Legion Go S
Lenovo has reportedly been working on the successor to the Lenovo Legion Go, its Windows-based gaming handheld. The manufacturer has remained tight-lipped about its next portable gaming device, said to be the Lenovo Legion Go S, but recent leaks have revealed design details of the Legion Go follow-up. Now, Lenovo seems to have confirmed its next ha...
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Smartphone Firms to Drop Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 for Chipmaker's Affordable Alternative in 2025, Tipster Claims
Smartphone makers could equip some of their upcoming models with a less powerful high-end processor in 2025, according to a tipster. The successor to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 could arrive on next generation high-end smartphones, as the Snapdragon 8s Elite, as companies look to cut costs on some of their handsets.
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Google Chrome Doubles Speedometer Benchmark Scores on Android Devices
Google Chrome runs twice as fast on Android smartphones than it did in April 2023, according to the company. According to Google, Chrome will now run even faster, especially on Android devices, after it recently doubled its score on the popular Speedometer benchmark test. Here's how Google optimised Chrome to run faster on Android phones.
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Apple's 5x Periscope Telephoto Camera Will Remain Exclusive to iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max: Report
Apple's iPhone 17 lineup is at least an year away from launch, however, speculations about the camera capabilities of the iPhone 17 series are now doing rounds on the Web. A recent leak suggests that Apple will keep periscope cameras exclusive to the Pro models next year. LG Innotek, an electronic component manufacturer, is reportedly investing in ...
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iPhone 17 Air to Be Apple's Thinnest-Ever Phone; A19 Chips to Be Built Using TSMC’s New Technology: Report
Apple is believed to discontinue the iPhone Plus model next year and replace it with an iPhone 17 Slim version. A well-known analyst now states that the purported iPhone 17 Slim will be thinner than the iPhone 6. Additionally, the analysts claimed that Apple's next-generation A19 chips for the iPhone 17 lineup will be manufactured using TSMC's thir...
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TSMC to Suspend Production of Advanced AI Chips for China From November 11: Report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has informed Chinese chip design firms that it is halting production of their most sophisticated AI chips starting November 11, according to a Financial Times report. The chipmaker informed its Chinese clients that it will not produce AI chips on advanced process nodes of 7nm or less, as per the report.
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Maruti Suzuki, Qualcomm Join Forces for Use of Snapdragon Elite Chips in Vehicles: Report
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest automotive manufacturer, is partnering with Qualcomm for the use of the new Snapdragon Elite automotive chips in its fleet of future vehicles, according to a report. It is speculated that Snapdragon’s new automotive chips could power a host of advanced safety systems, connected car technologies and other technolog...
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Xiaomi Likely to Launch First Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 SoC-Powered Smartphone at Indian Mobile Congress 2024
Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 processor for the mobile platform debuted in India at the Snapdragon for India event in July as a budget-friendly 5G chipset. Now, Xiaomi will become the first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to launch a handset with this new chipset, according to a report. The purported handset is touted as an entry-level offering and is ...
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TSMC’s Sales Beat Estimates in Good Sign for AI Chip Demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) posted a better-than-expected 39 percent rise in quarterly revenue. Hsinchu-based TSMC is one of the key companies at the heart of a global surge in spending on AI development.
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Samsung Electronics Says It Is Not Interested in Spinning Off Foundry Business
Samsung chairperson Jay Y. Lee has said that the company is not looking to spin off its businesses of contract chip manufacturing and logic chip designing operation. Analysts say the two businesses are incurring billions of dollars of annual losses due to weak demand and have been dragging down Samsung's overall performance.
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India To Become Next Chip Manufacturing Hub: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that India is moving towards becoming the next semiconductor hub for the world as big investment is happening in this sector in the country.
-
iPhone 16 Pro Max Bill of Materials is 7 Percent Higher Than iPhone 15 Pro Max: Report
iPhone 16 series was unveiled last month and teardown videos and durability tests of the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are currently doing rounds on the Web. Most recently, the bill of materials (BOM) details of the iPhone 16 Pro Max have surfaced online, revealing the total manufacturing cost of the device. The BOM...
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Arm Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Purchase of Chipmaker's Product Unit
Arm Holdings approached Intel about potentially buying the ailing chipmaker’s product division, only to be told that the business isn’t for sale. Intel is separating the chip product division from its manufacturing operations.
-
PM Modi, US President Biden Announce Plans for New Chip Plant in India
The US and India reached an agreement to work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in India. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White House readout that followed a meeting between the US President Joe Biden and PM Modi in Delaware on Saturday.
