MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in the third quarter of 2020, when smartphone sales rebounded during the quarter, according to Counterpoint Research. From a report: MediaTek’s strong performance in the US$100-250 price band and growth in key regions like China and India helped it become the biggest smartphone chipset vendor during the third quarter, said…
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Why Google’s Big ‘Four Year’ Android Update Promise Is a Little Misleading
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police: Today, Google and Qualcomm announced what seemed like a big improvement to updates for Android smartphones. The headlines (ours included! We were confused, too) largely read as though Android phones with Qualcomm chipsets would now receive “four years” of Android updates, an additional year on top of what manufacturers like Google and…
Should Qualcomm Feel Threatened By Apple’s M1 Macs?
PCMag.com’s lead mobile analyst calls Qualcomm “a little too unbothered by Apple’s M1 Macs” Qualcomm executives brushed off a question about Apple’s new M1-based Macs during a question-and-answer session at the company’s Snapdragon Summit today, where Qualcomm announced a new flagship smartphone chipset but no upgrades to its year-old chips for PCs… In general, reviews of Qualcomm-powered laptops such as the…
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But…
Yes, Torvalds said he’d love to have one of the new M1-powered Apple laptops, but it won’t run Linux and, in an exclusive interview he explains why getting Linux to run well on it isn’t worth the trouble. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes via ZDNet: Recently, on the Real World Technologies forum, Linux’s creator Linus Torvalds was asked what he thought of…
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 Can Get a Phone To 50 Percent Battery in Five Minutes
Qualcomm is giving its Quick Charge technology a sizeable boost, one that the company claims will be able to plug in and get a device with a 4,500mAh battery from 0 to 50% in five minutes and from empty to 100% in 15 minutes. From a report: The new technology — which will make its first appearance in devices during the…
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold
Today, Qualcomm is announcing an update to its extremely successful Snapdragon 865 SoC: the new Snapdragon 865+. AnandTech reports: The new Snapdragon 865+ is a new binned variant of the [Snapdragon 865] with higher peak frequencies on the part of the “prime” CPU as well as the GPU, promising +10% performance on both aspects. Whilst in relative terms the new chipset’s…
First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X
As expected, developers with early access to Apple silicon-based transition kits have leaked some early benchmarks scores. And it’s bad news for Surface Pro X and Windows 10 on ARM fans. Thurrott reports: According to multiple Geekbench scores, the Apple Developer Transition Kit — a Mac Mini-like device with an Apple A12Z system-on-a-chip (SoC), 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB…
AMD To Support Zen 3 and Ryzen 4000 CPUs On B450 and X470 Motherboards
New submitter FallOutBoyTonto shares a reprot from AnandTech: AMD today is reversing its decision to limit the BIOSes on the 400-series chipsets. To cut a long story short, the TL;DR mantra from AMD is: “We’ve heard our audience, and we understand the concerns. We are going to work out a way to support Zen 3 on our 400-series chipsets between now…
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…