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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 SoC performance, with AMD proclaiming that the Ryzen AI 300 series will offer the fastest AI inference performance within the compact and portable PC market. Under the hood, the new mobile SoC from AMD incorporates not only their new Zen 5 CPU architecture, but also their new RDNA 3.5-based integrated graphics, and the third generation XDNA2-based NPU, the latter of which is rated to deliver 50 TOPS of performance for...
Apple Announces iPhone 13 Series: A15, New Cameras, New Screens
Today Apple held its fall 2021 iPhone launch event, and we’ve gotten 4 new iPhones from the new iPhone 13 series: the iPhone 13 mini, the iPhone 13, iPhone...
144 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/14/2021The Apple 2021 Fall iPhone Event Live Blog 10am PT (17:00 UTC)
It's that time of the year again - Apple's fall iPhone event, where we expect the Cupertino company to unveil its newest generation family of iPhones - likely the...
40 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/14/2021The Axon 30 with Under Display Camera: Hands-on Mini-Review
The Axon 30 uses a new second-generation under-display camera with an OLED from Visionox, and features the Snapdragon 870- does it convince enough for the $499 price tag?
26 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/3/2021Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-less OLED With 25% Less Power
Today Samsung Display Company (SDC) is announcing the introduction and mass production of a new generation of OLED panel called “Eco²OLED”.
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/16/2021The "Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders" vs ROG5 Preview: Branded vs Original
Today we’re reviewing a rather unusual device, the new ASUS “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders”. The device had been first announced a month ago by Qualcomm and ASUS, and represents...
44 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/16/2021HONOR Announces Magic 3 Series: With Snapdragon & Google, A new Start
Today, we see HONOR announce the company’s new flagship Magic 3 series of devices. The new Magic 3 series consists of 3 new phones, the “regular” Magic 3, the...
29 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/12/2021Samsung Unpacked 2021 Part 2: Galaxy Z Flip 3 & Z Fold 3 Announced
Today Samsung is holding its second Mobile Unpacked event for the year, announcing the new Galaxy Z Flip 3 and the new Galaxy Z Fold 3.
50 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/11/2021Google Teases Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro with new "Tensor" SoC
Today Google has teased its new upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones; in what is likely an attempt to get leaks and the upcoming narrative of the...
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/2/2021The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra Review - Something Surprisingly Different
ZTE is one of the rare vendors active in the US market, which makes the new Axon 30 Ultra a quite interesting device that’s surprisingly viable in the current...
29 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/30/2021JEDEC Publishes LPDDR5X Standard at up to 8533 Mbps
JEDEC and the JC-42.6 Subcommittee for Low Power Memories has announced the publication of the new JESD209-5B standard which now includes improvements to LPDDR5, as well as an extension...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/29/2021OnePlus Announces Nord 2 with Dimensity 1200 SoC
Today OnePlus is announcing the 2021 successor to the OnePlus Nord – the company mid-range line-up phone. The new phone takes the hardware platform from the OPPO Reno 5...
18 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/22/2021The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Review: Big and Fast, but Inefficient
Today we’re finally taking a deeper look at Xiaomi’s Mi 11 Ultra – the bigger brother of the Mi 11. Featuring the same screen and general design, can the...
41 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/20/2021ASUS Announces "Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders" - A Real Product, or Just A Marketing Showcase?
Today ASUS and Qualcomm are announcing the “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders” - a ASUS designed phone with extensive Snapdragon branding – a ROG Phone 5 spin-off, or just a...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/8/2021Examining OnePlus' Performance Behaviour: Optimization or Misrepresentation?
We've discovered weird behaviour on the OnePlus 9 Pro flagship: Popular apps are performance limited, while benchmarks are unaffected. Is this battery optimisation, or misrepresentation of the user experience?
88 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/6/2021Cristiano Amon Takes over as Qualcomm CEO: Reiterates Focus on Custom CPUs
As of June 30th, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon has taken over as the company’s CEO, replacing his predecessor Steve Mollenkopf which has now retired. In statements to Reuters, Amon had...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/2/2021ASUS Launches Zenfone 8 in US: Starting at $599
Following the phone’s initial announcement mid-May, this week ASUS has officially launched their new ZenFone 8 in the US starting at a price of $599. The ZenFone 8 is...
15 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/2/2021Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 888+ 5G Speed Bin at 3GHz
Today for the first day of Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm is announcing its usual yearly mini-refresh of its flagship Snapdragon SoC in the form of the new Snapdragon 888+...
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/28/2021Mobile Flagship Phone Cameras 2021 H1 Review: Megapixels & Telephotos
It’s been well over a year now since our last extensive camera round-up article, and it’s also been a few months now since the release of most of 2021’s...
60 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/21/2021AMD confirms Ray-Tracing and VRS in Samsung Exynos RDNA GPU IP
At this year’s AMD Computex 2021 keynote event, CEO Lisa Su, among a series of various new product announcements and technology disclosures, has teased some new details on the...
49 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/1/2021Arm Announces New Mali-G710, G610, G510 & G310 Mobile GPU Families
Today alongside the CPU announcements, Arm is also unveiling a whole family of third generation Valhall GPUs with the Mali-G710, G510, G310, with particularly large improvements in the mid-...
30 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/25/2021