CHIPS & AI
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12/14/2023
Intel 4: EUV Arrives a Decade Late
Intel 4 is the company's first EUV node, in Meteor Lake, finally adopting the lithography Intel refused at 10nm and that the foundries shipped…
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CATEGORY_INDEX // 123 ENTRIES
hardware
PC components, peripherals, consumer electronics, and hardware reviews.
5G
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12/04/2023
AT&T Bet $14 Billion on Ericsson and Called It Open RAN
AT&T's recent $14 billion deal with Ericsson marks a significant commitment to Open RAN, aiming to shift 70% of wireless traffic to open platforms…
3 MIN
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AI
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10/23/2023
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3: Qualcomm Holds the Line Before the Real Leap
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is not a revolution. It is Qualcomm repositioning the Snapdragon platform as an AI inference engine, holding AMD and…
3 MIN
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APPLE
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10/02/2023
Vision Pro, Quest 3, and XR2 Gen 2: Spatial Computing Arrives
Apple reveals the $3,499 Vision Pro, Meta ships the Quest 3 on Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 at $499, and spatial computing becomes the new…
2 MIN
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AI
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01/27/2023
DeepMind’s Math Reasoning and Intel Ponte Vecchio: The AI Stack Splits in Two
Explore how Google DeepMind's MathVerse and Intel's Ponte Vecchio represent two distinct paths in AI development—software reasoning and hardware optimization.
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AI
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12/29/2022
TSMC’s 3nm Node: FinFET’s Last Stand as AI Demand Arrives
TSMC's 3nm node is FinFET's last stand: hard, expensive, and splitting into N3B and N3E, just as AI accelerators arrive to fight phones for…
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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10/17/2022
Logitech’s G Cloud is a $350 Streaming Handheld, and the Steam Deck Is Right There
Logitech's G Cloud, priced at $350, features a Snapdragon 720G and relies on cloud gaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming. While its hardware is…
3 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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06/30/2022
Samsung 3nm: First to Gate-All-Around, and It Barely Mattered
Samsung 3nm beat TSMC to gate-all-around with its MBCFET transistor, but poor yields and thin customers meant the world's first GAA node barely mattered.
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CHIPS & AI
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06/10/2022
Samsung 4nm: The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Disaster
Samsung 4nm built the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which ran so hot Qualcomm moved the refresh to TSMC, where the same chip ran cooler.…
3 MIN
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5G
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05/18/2022
MediaTek’s Dimensity 5G Era: From Budget Afterthought to Contender (2019 to 2021)
Between 2019 and 2021, MediaTek transformed from a budget chip supplier to the largest smartphone chip vendor by volume with its Dimensity 5G line.…
5 MIN
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HARDWARE
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02/21/2022
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (Exynos) Camera test
The brand new Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (Exynos) is a phone of superlatives. Samsung says the Exynos 2200 chipset is its fastest ever and…
1 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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11/04/2021
Intel 7: The Rename, the Return, and the Foundry Pivot
Intel 7 renamed the 10nm node, Alder Lake brought Intel back, and Gelsinger's IDM 2.0 turned the company that disdained foundry work into a…
4 MIN
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5G
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10/30/2021
AT&T selects Ericsson for expansion of 5G network and C-band spectrum build
Ericsson will deploy its industry-leading radio access network (RAN) technologies such as Advanced Antenna System, Advanced RAN Coordination, Carrier Aggregation portfolio and Fronthaul Gateway…
4 MIN
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5G
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10/22/2021
MediaTek T750
The T750 is a highly integrated, 7nm compact chipset design with an integrated 5G radio and quad-core Arm CPU. It’s full-featured with all the…
3 MIN
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5G
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10/11/2021
ARM: Making Silent Progress in the Shadows
Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence about hyperscale cloud infrastructure, tracks data showing increases in use of Arm. “The progress of processors based…
3 MIN
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