Today, Qualcomm has announced they will be acquiring NUVIA for $1.4 billion — acquiring the start-up company consisting of industry veterans which originally were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance CPU cores. AnandTech reports: NUVIA was originally founded in February 2019 and coming out of stealth-mode in November of that year. The start-up was founded by industry veterans Gerard Williams III,…
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New Benchmark Shows iPhones Throttle So Hard They Lose Their Edge Over Android
MojoKid writes: Apple has repeatedly asserted its dominance in terms of performance versus competitive mobile platforms. And it has been historically true that, in cross-platform benchmarks, iPhones generally can beat out Android phones in both CPU and GPU (graphics) performance. However, a new benchmark recently released from trusted benchmark suite developer UL Benchmarks sheds light on what could be the iPhone’s…
Apple Introduces New $399 iPhone SE With Touch ID and 4.7″ Screen
Apple today unveiled a new iPhone SE, updating the lineup for the first time in four years. It’s a 4.7″ iPhone with a physical home button, Touch ID, a single rear-facing camera and the A13 Bionic chip on board. With a $399 starting price point, the new SE is aimed squarely at new iPhone users or first time smartphone buyers but…
Apple’s A14 Chip Rumored To Become First Arm-Based Mobile Processor To Exceed 3GHz
Apple’s A14 processor that’s expected to debut this fall in Apple’s iPhone 12 models is rumored to have a frequency reaching 3.1GHz. “This would be 400MHz higher than Apple’s current A13 Bionic chip with a frequency of 2.7GHz,” reports MacRumors. From the report: At such a frequency, the chip’s Geekbench 5 running points have surged. The report mentions that the A14’s…
Behind Samsung’s $116 Billion Bid for Chip Supremacy
Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life. Google has the Tensor Processing Unit, Apple has the A13 Bionic and Amazon.com has the Graviton2. What the titans all lack, however, is a factory to build the new chips they are dreaming up. Enter Samsung Electronics, which is…
Apple To Release ‘iPhone SE 2’ In Q1 2020 With iPhone 8 Design, A13 Processor
According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is expected to launch the next version of the iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020. “The new phone will be more affordable than the rest of the Apple iPhone lineup and feature newer internals, like an A13 processor with 3GB RAM, in a familiar iPhone 8 chassis,” reports 9to5Mac. From the…