The biggest chunk of what I cover: phones, the silicon inside them, the software that ages them, and the slow creep of AI into every part of the stack. I care more about what a device is actually like to live with than about the spec sheet it launched on.
TSMC's 10nm node shipped the Apple A11 in volume while Intel's 10nm stalled, the moment the leading edge you could actually buy moved to…
OnePlus 5 at $479 in 2017, 5T at $499. The numbers seem small but they traced the beginning of a line: $299 in 2014…
Xiaomi has joined Apple, Samsung, and Huawei by designing its own processor, the Surge S1, aimed at mid-range phones like the Mi 5C. This…
Samsung 10nm built every Snapdragon 835, the year Samsung spun out its foundry as a standalone division and tried to outrun the chipgate reputation.
[MAJ] : Suite à ce post, le 3900 m’appelle le Vendredi. Re Explication du début… Je reste courtois mais cela devient lourd. Au téléphone,…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835, the first 10nm mobile processor, coincides with its 5G modem announcement and partnership with Microsoft for Windows on Snapdragon laptops, signaling…
Xiaomi just put a 6.4-inch phone on stage that is almost entirely screen. The display covers 91.3% of the front, the highest screen-to-body ratio…
Give a workshop in Shenzhen, one of MediaTek’s complete phone kits, the chip already sitting on a reference board with the firmware and test…
2016. OPPO is China's best-selling smartphone brand with 18.8% market share. The F1 — "The Camera Phone" — gets there not through tech media…
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
The OnePlus 3 in June 2016 was the purest expression of the Never Settle philosophy: the best hardware at the fairest price with software…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 aims to rectify issues from the overheating 810 with custom Kryo cores and a move to a 14nm FinFET process. Despite…
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
The OnePlus 2 was supposed to be the "2016 Flagship Killer." Instead it was the first sign that the company could disappoint its community…
TSMC's 16nm FinFET delivered the first 3D transistor the 20nm shrink withheld, drew level with Intel on structure, and split the Apple A9 with…