Apple is planning to overhaul its chip design for the 2026 iPhones, in a move that could mark the first time it uses advanced multi-chip packaging in a mobile device. It sounds complicated, but here’s what this means.
According to analyst Jeff Pu in a new report for , the iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, and the long-rumored iPhone 18 Fold are expected to debut Apple’s A20 chip, built on TSMC’s second-gen
While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX " Strix Halo " SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficiency perspective. Here is an on/off comparison for SMT with the flagship AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook
Washington cracked down on semiconductor design software exports to China, banning companies like Synopsys and Cadence from issuing licenses to tech companies that use their software to build advanced chips. While this ban is unlikely to stop these companies from using the electronic design automation (EDA) software they already have, it will prevent them from getting updates and the required technical support needed to continue designing chips for manufacture in Taiwan, says the Financial Times .
Xiaomi is one of the bigger companies to be affected by this
In context: Qualcomm did not unveil its next-generation Snapdragon X chips at Computex last month, choosing instead to highlight the AI capabilities of its existing hardware. However, the company is reportedly developing new processors for AI-powered PCs and has already begun testing the Snapdragon X2 Elite, which features a higher core count and improved memory support.
According to reliable tipster Roland Quandt, Qualcomm is testing the Snapdragon X2
Microsoft 宣佈透過更新 Windows 11 硬件相容性計劃（WHCP）來「終結 USB-C 混亂局面」，承諾確保所有 USB-C 插口的數據、充電和顯示功能「正常運作」。新規定要求所有通過認證的 Windows 11 手提電腦和平板電腦的 USB-C 插口必須支援數據傳輸
NVIDIA and MediaTek could soon enter the "AI PC" segment, this time with a dedicated processor for gaming laptops, which could redefine competition.
There's no doubt that out of all the consumer hardware segments out there, mobile processors have seen massive development in the past few years, especially with contributions by Intel and AMD. Lineups like AMD's Phoenix, Strix Point, and Strix Halo have taken performance levels with compact
A seasoned tech tipster has stated that Qualcomm is testing Snapdragon X2 Elite devices in configurations with 64GB of RAM . Roland Quandt, best known for his exclusives published via Germany’s WinFuture.de, stated this weekend that the “SC8480XP aka SD X2 Elite [is] in testing with 64GB RAM.” He is also more convinced than ever that this upcoming Oryon V3 CPU architecture chip will come packing 18 cores.
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Established names in the technology industry, such as Apple, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and others, are already gunning for TSMC’s 2nm process, with the latter said to have started accepting orders from April 1 . At $30,000 per wafer, the next-generation node was already going to be a tough pill to swallow, but these companies would have little problems spending billions to obtain an edge against one another, or to keep pace. Unfortunately, it gets only harder from here,
Here’s a fun one for Mac nostalgia fans: a new project by hobbyist Nick Gillard has taken the idea of mini retro builds to a whole micro level.
Called the pico-mac-nano, this is a working replica of the original Macintosh that stands just 62 millimeters tall (that’s 2.4 inches for you, Casey Liss). And what’s more, you can actually run MacPaint and MacWrite on it.
The project (via ) builds on an earlier open-source emulator