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.
Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…
China Mobile's research institute wants to empty every cell tower, pull the baseband back into one central pool, and turn the radio network into…
The new MacBook's trackpad, which lacks a separate button, has received mixed reviews. While pinch-to-zoom gestures are successful, three-finger swipes feel less intuitive. Users…
May 2008. OPPO's first mobile phone — the A103 "Smiley Phone" — goes on sale in China. Not a smartphone. Not for the tech…
Samsung's D830, initially marketed as the world's slimmest phone, lost its title to the X820 at 6.9mm just four months later. The pursuit of…
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
2006. OPPO Digital opens in Menlo Park, California, selling audiophile Blu-ray players online to American home theater enthusiasts who've never heard of Dongguan. The…
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