The CPU market of late has been dominated by Intel and AMD; Qualcomm, with its AI-powered, energy-efficient Snapdragon X-series ARM processors, aim to challenge that.Qualcomm’s current X-series processors have been making waves since their June 2024 launch. Winfuture have exclusively revealed that Qualcomm has been working on its next-gen high-end Snapdragon X2 CPU “SC8480XP”, under…
Is Qualcomm buying Intel? I saw this question plastered over X (cough, Twitter) today, and it got me thinking: what sort of upside-down world are these people living in? Indeed, even some actual news outlets have posted headlines posing the same question, and I’m here to set the record straight.No, Qualcomm certainly isn’t buying Intel,…
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With…
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During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation…
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After the iPhone 15 release, we turn our attention to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16. The company will unveil this new device during its Glowtime event on September 9. One of the highlights could be an iPhone Ultra model, although it seems AI will be the main feature of this lineup. That said, is the iPhone…
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A new leak has seemingly outlined the entire first wave of Intel’s hotly-anticipated Core Ultra 200 CPUs, also known as Arrow Lake-S. The leaked information around the forthcoming line of CPUs comes complete with core counts and boost frequencies.The leak originates from Chinese tech website Benchlife, which also claimed that its sources have suggested an…
Intel has decided that the warranty extension the firm announced last week, for chips affected by instability issues, applies to all its 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors, and not just boxed CPUs.If you recall, when the move, which upped the warranty from three to five years, was made, Intel said it applied to boxed products, but…
A new Intel Arrow Lake leak suggests that the upcoming desktop processors will only feature a low-powered NPU, one that won’t past muster in terms of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC hardware requirements. As spotted by Videocardz, hardware leaker Jaykihn on X has posted what’s claimed to be a spec list for Intel Arrow Lake-S (desktop) which states…
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Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show’s leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we’re expecting AMD to have a…
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During AMD’s opening keynote at Computex 2024, company CEO Dr. Lisa Su revealed AMD’s latest AI PC-focused chip lineup for the mobile market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. Based on AMD’s new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture, the Ryzen AI 300 series – codenamed Strix Point – is intended to offer an across-the-board improvement in mobile…
