MediaTek’s Turnkey Empire: Feature Phones, Shanzhai, and the Acquisition Machine (2006 to 2015)
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…
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.
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…
Comme vous avez pu le remarquer lors d’un détour sur un ou des sites spécialisés, #OnePlus vient d’annoncer son 2ème produit le OnePlus 2.…
Samsung 14nm FinFET shipped before TSMC's 16nm, powering the Galaxy S6's Exynos 7420 and winning back Qualcomm and a share of Apple's A9.
Et oui, un petit retour pour la communauté de l’OPO, #lollipop n’arrivera pas sous 90 jours comme promis l’année dernière tant sous Oxygen OS…
#keynote #apple : Bon ben : 1 jours d’autonomie max de 399€ à 18 000 € Paiement / ouverture porte Bla Bla Bla OK…
The Cyanogen breakup forced OnePlus to build OxygenOS in 2015. OxygenOS was excellent for six years and then became a ColorOS reskin. The thread…
Forty-five billion dollars. A five-year-old company that openly sells its phones at close to cost is now the most valuable private startup on the…
BBK Electronics was present in OnePlus from day one as its only institutional shareholder. The community that rallied behind OnePlus as a challenger brand…
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