Intel announced its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC in late 2023, and it’s promising to shake up the Windows processor landscape in 2024 by being a serious competitor to mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. The Qualcomm SoC will be targeting the ultra-thin laptop market when it debuts later …
Read More »OnePlus 12 Official in China With Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 100W Charging
You can’t buy the OnePlus 12 yet, but OnePlus has revealed the phone in China. An international launch is coming soon, and there’s not much left to learn besides North American pricing. The OnePlus 12 has the latest Snapdragon chip, ultra-fast charging, and more RAM than you’ll probably ever need. …
Read More »Vivo X90 Pro Plus
Qualcomm announced its next flagship mobile processor just a few days ago, and Vivo is wasting no time while the new chip is still top of mind. The Chinese smartphone giant has announced the new X90 Pro Plus, the first smartphone to ship with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It …
Read More »Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Qualcomm just unveiled a new high-end 800-series ARM processor, and I know what you’re thinking: Didn’t Qualcomm already announce its 2021 flagship system-on-a-chip (SoC)? It did, but the new Snapdragon 870 will slot in below the flagship Snapdragon 888. The 870 is more akin to last year’s 865, but …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S21
Samsung’s annual Unpacked event is taking place a bit earlier than usual this year, but the company’s new flagship Galaxy S phones are official all the same. As expected, there are three devices in the S21 family. All three devices have the latest Snapdragon 888 ARM chip, lower price …
Read More »Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888
Most of the premium Android phones that launch in 2021 will have the latest Snapdragon 888 inside. Qualcomm teased the name of the chip at its Snapdragon Summit yesterday, and now we have all the details. The 888 comes with a new CPU design, integrated 5G, and a massive …
Read More »Qualcomm Breaks 3GHz
Qualcomm Breaks 3GHz Barrier With Slightly Faster Snapdragon 865 Plus ARM Chip Most of the fancy new 5G phones on the market run on the Snapdragon 865, but that’s old news. Qualcomm has announced a new mobile chip, the Snapdragon 865 Plus. What’s “plus” about it? Well, not as much …
Read More »New Snapdragon 835 tests show Qualcomm’s latest SoC doesn’t beat the 821 in every scenario
When Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 835 earlier this year, the general conclusion was that the new core would feature an improved version of the company’s Kryo CPU architecture, with better performance thanks to fine-tuning of that design. It turns out that’s not the path Qualcomm is taking. Kryo: Frozen out The …
Read More »Qualcomm declares Snapdragon processors aren’t ‘processors’ at all
Qualcomm acknowledges that “processor” is an accepted and broadly used generic term for a wide range of products, including ASICs, CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, MICs, and probably at least a few others. It also admits that we already have a term to describe microprocessors that integrate a wide range of functionality, …
Read More »Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 835 SoC details
Late last year, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 835 would be its next-generation smartphone SoC. The new chip is built on a 10nm process in partnership with Samsung, but Qualcomm hadn’t unveiled much in the way of additional details. This week at CES, the company shared new details on the upcoming …
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