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Qualcomm is currently holding their annual Snapdragon Tech Summit where they will gradually reveal the full details of the up and coming technology for mobile in the following year. They key parts of the summit (for consumers) is the announcement of the latest chipsets to feature in our phones. The first day has not revealed…
[Update] Matthew Hughes at The Register has now confirmed Den Automation has officially gone into liquidation. Wilkin Chapman Business Solutions Limited has been appointed as liquidators, with Ian Michael Rose and Karen Tracey Potts the named practitioners. It is only 8 months ago that I reviewed the Den Automation system, I was quite impressed with…
Following the launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G codenamed MT6889 two benchmarks have been leaked. I have already covered the Dimensity 1000 Antutu results, showing it beating all the current chipsets available today. The new chipset features a specification that should allow it to comfortably compete with all the next-gen system on chips flagship…
In an interesting turn of events, Realme will be going all-in on 5G in China for 2020. They will not release any new phones that are 4G only. This decision was disclosed by Realme’s CEO/Founder, Sky Li, via Weibo. While this is a feasible move in the mid to upper end of the market, by…
With AMD and Intel launching their latest HEDT processors has AMD continued to embarrass Intel, or is the new (semi) affordable 10980XE the best HEDT processor? Pricing & Options With the latest processors, Intel has options going from a 10-core 10900X with a price of £609.98 up to the Core i9 10980XE Extreme with 18…
Realme, OPPO and Xiaomi are all planning to launch a mid-range 5G phone in December. The Realme X50 existence was confirmed by Realme themselves, but initial rumours suggested a flagship 5G phone launching in 2020. However, this now looks inaccurate with the Realme X50 now being tipped to be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 735 5G based phone….
The MediaTek Dimensity 1000 was announced two days ago and with a specification to rival the best of the best from Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei. The 5G chipset which is fabricated on the 7nm process features 4 x ARM Cortex-A77 performance cores and the Mali-G77 GPU. As usual for things like this, a benchmark has…
MediaTek has not released a high-end chipset for years now. The MediaTek Helio X30 was perhaps there the last attempt which featured 10 cores split across three clusters. The company has done well in the lower end of the market featuring in many phones under £200. This year they shook things up a bit with…
Today MediaTek formally announced their new flagship chipset which looks set to bring back MediaTek into the world of flagship devices with some impressive specs. This chipset was the “first” 5G chipset to be announced all the way back in May, it seemed like a market stunt, just to get the news out, with no…
Multiple companies are trying to push out a mid-range 5G phone as quickly as possible, and it looks like Xiaomi will pip everyone to the post. Xiaomi has officially revealed the promo poster for the new Redmi K30 confirming the launch date will be on the 10th of December, it had previously been expected to…
Not content with shaking up the affordable flagship market with the X2 Pro, Realme are now getting ready to launch a new device, the Realme X50. The news of this phone has come directly from Realme via Weibo where they reveal the phone will have dual-mode 5G (SA/NSA) and the image silhouette indicates a dual punch-hole…
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 launched back at the start of October but it is still not available at retail yet. German publication heise.de has managed to get their hands on an OEM model out of an HP pre-built desktop PC system. The RX 5500 is based on the Navi architecture features 22CUs / 1,408SPs…