“Absent another Snapdragon 7+ chip this year, it’s hard to see the [Snapdragon 8s Gen 3] as anything other than the 7+’s successor.” -Ryan Smith, AnandTech, March 18th, 2024 Proving the adage “ask, and you shall receive”, Qualcomm is back this week for a second Snapdragon SoC announcement for mobile phones. This time, the company…
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With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory. Back in August we saw NVIDIA’s plans to release an HBM3E-equipped version of the Grace Hopper GH200 superchip, and now for the SC23 tradeshow, NVIDIA is announcing…
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Although AMD doesn’t have any major HPC announcements for this year’s SC23 show, the company isn’t starting this week empty-handed. For the workstation market the company is introducing its latest (and likely final) Radeon Pro W7000 series card, the Radeon Pro W7700. Based on AMD’s latest-generation RDNA 3 architecture, the W7700 slots in between the…
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The market for portable SSDs has shown rapid growth over the past decade or so. Almost all tier-one flash vendors (including Samsung, Western Digital / SanDisk, Micron / Crucial, and SK hynix) have their own PSSD lineup. Other than SK hynix, the others in the list have multiple PSSD models in the market. This has…
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It’s over… MWC 2024 closed its doors on Thursday after what felt like an even more action-packed event than last year. I’ve walked many miles, attended various events and briefings, and got to play with some of the coolest new toys in town. It’s not just flagship phones that impressed me at MWC 2024, as you’re…
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The Apple M3 chip is official, along with the Apple M3 Pro and Apple M3 Max, and it’s the largest advance in Apple’s processor technology yet.The announcement at the Apple Scary Fast event was a late October surprise from the Cupertino giant, seeing as many of the rumors around the new chip put it out…
The latest rumor for the iPhone SE 4 seems to contradict the possibility of Apple’s entry iPhone getting Dynamic Island, as the company is now rumored to focus on an early 2025 release with the same panels as the iPhone 14.According to The Elec, Samsung Display, BOE, and Tianma, they proposed prices to Apple for…
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The rumors that preceded the launch of the Galaxy S24 were correct. They warned that Samsung would use both the Exynos 2400 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips to power the flagship. Fans had not forgotten the massive Exynos 2200 disappointment that forced Samsung to use a Snapdragon chip inside every Galaxy S23 model.But…
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In a matter of days, we saw not one but a couple of reports detailing Apple’s purported plans for foldable iPhones. That includes a story from a reliable source of Apple rumors. The Information has learned that Apple is working on a couple of foldable iPhone prototypes. These are phones with designs similar to Samsung’s…
Apple’s new M3 chips have been the talk of silicon town (population: a whole lot of chips) since they were revealed in refreshed MacBooks (and a new iMac 2023), and now we’ve got some fresh benchmark scores for the SoCs – this time for the M3 Max, excitingly.We’ve already seen Geekbench results for the vanilla…
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