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…
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…
Qualcomm will be holding their annual Snapdragon Summit from the 3rd to the 5th of December where they will reveal the latest flagship Snapdragon chipset. Leaks, rumours and benchmarks have already been floating about, and you can expect to see more as we get closer to the announcement date. A new leak has come out…
MediaTek announced the Helio G90T a few months ago and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro is the first and only phone to use this chipset. MediaTek is not particularly well known for their high-performance chipsets so this launch has come as a bit of a surprise with the specification looking like it should provide…
Samsung’s custom CPU core arm is officially shutting down which will mean that future Samsung devices will no longer feature Exynos M performance cores, but instead employ ARM designs. The move has been rumoured for some time now. While Samsung Exynos chipsets are excellent they have generally lagged behind the Qualcomm equivalent which implements all…
As much as I love Qualcomm and their mobile chipsets, one of the biggest issues Android WearOS has faced is the truly shocking chipsets available to it. We are currently only just seeing watches feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100, which launched last year and is based on the SD425 chipset that launched in 2016 that…
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 was launched almost two years ago, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is due to be replaced with the Snapdragon 865. Earlier this year the Snapdragon 710 was superseded by the new Snapdragon 730 and as technology improves the performance trickles down with generations. So how do this year’s upper-midrange chipsets compare…
In September Samsung announced their new Exynos 9611 chipset which is aimed at the mid-end of the market and features on the Samsung Galaxy M30s, and the A50s and is expected to be in the Samsung Galaxy A51. The older Exynos 9610 which this replaces is featured on the Samsung Galaxy A50 2019 which currently…
Samsung has unexpectedly announced its new flagship earlier than their normal schedule. It was expected to launch around the same time as the Samsung Galaxy S11 which would be at the start of 2020. With the announcement of the Samsung Exynos 990 that just leaves Qualcomm to show their cards for next years flagship chipset….
[Update] It had been previously leaked that the new integrated 5G Qualcomm chipset would be called the Qualcomm Snapdragon 735. Today Qualcomm has now announced the Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 765G. Currently, Qualcomm has not announced the full specification of the Snapdragon 735, but one of the slides confirmed that the new SoC will feature…
As part of yesterdays Surface event, where Microsoft launched their first foldable devices, the Surface Pro X was launched featuring a custom ARM-powered chipset co-engineered with Qualcomm called the SQ1. So what is the SQ1 and how does it differ from the Snapdragon 8cx which is Qualcomm’s current top of the range Windows and Arm…
Windows on Arm has been slow to take off, Windows doesn’t naturally play nice with Arm microarchitecture, so things have to be rewritten or emulated. I reviewed the HP Envy X2 back in 2018 and generally had mixed feelings towards it. The always-on always-connected feature was a revelation, the battery life was phenomenal, and it…
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