The highly portable 13-inch M4 MacBook Air has now become one of the best ‘price to performance’ portable machines on Amazon at this time, because a near-$200 price cut has been applied to this premium portable Mac, but only if you purchase the version that ships with 24GB unified RAM and in the Midnight finish. Currently, this variant is going for $1,205.06 after a $193.94 discount, giving you
TSMC reiterates it doesn't need High-NA EUV for 1.4nm-class process technology
TSMC reiterated its long-known stance on next-generation High-NA EUV lithography tools at its European Technology Symposium in Amsterdam. The company does not require these highest-end lithography systems for its next-generation process technologies, including A16 (1.6nm-class) and A14 (1.4nm-class) process technologies. To that end, TSMC will not adopt High-NA EUV tools for these nodes.
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Xiaomi Envisions Proprietary Chipset Designs Being Deployed in non-Flagship Mobile Devices
Last Thursday, Xiaomi revealedits proprietary XRING O1 3 nm mobile chipset. After months of rumors, the Chinese firm's highly anticipated first-party chip design was introduced during their special "A New Beginning" event—held in Beijing. During this multipronged product launch celebration, company leadership disclosed the underpinnings of their first-ever flagship processor. According to official descriptions, Xiaomi's pivotal XRING O1 SoC is built on: "a cutting-edge second-gen 3 nm process with 19 billion
TSMC to open up chip design center in Munich to help local chip developers
TSMC is set to open its first chip design center in Munich, Germany, in a bid to help local and European chip developers optimize their designs to its process technology, the company announced at its European Technology Symposium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The facility in Munich will perform multiple functions to simplify the implementation of chips on its process technologies, as well as helping partners on system-level design. Essentially, the center's competencies will span from
Samsung’s Deal With Nintendo For Switch 2 SoC Marks a Rare Defeat for TSMC; AMD and Sony Now Eyeing Partnership Too
Nintendo's deal with Samsung Foundry to develop its Switch 2 SoC is said to be a turning point, since after the agreement, several leading firms are interested in partnering.
Samsung's Partnership With Nintendo Has Lured In AMD & Sony Into a Potential Chip Deal; Foundry Division Expected To See a Turnover
For those unaware, Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by a chip which NVIDIA exclusively designs, but the more interesting factor is Nintendo's decision to utilize Samsung over its long-standing partner TSMC. The main reason
Intel LGA9324 leak reveals colossal CPU socket with 9,324 pins for up to 700W Diamond Rapids Xeons
An alleged picture of the socket that is expected to host Intel's next-generation Diamond Rapids (Xeon seventh-generation) family of server CPUs has emerged, as spotted by HXL on X. The LGA9324 socket reportedly carries over 10,000 pins , once you consider debug pins and the like. This will likely be the largest LGA CPU socket yet, unless future Venice offerings from AMD exceed this amount.
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Apple’s Base iPhone 16 Beats The Company’s More Premium ‘Pro’ Models By Securing Top Spot Of The World’s Best-Selling Smartphones List For Q1 2025; ‘Plus’ Variant Came In Tenth Place
The world’s best-selling smartphone for the first quarter of 2025 is a surprise entry, with the iPhone 16 receiving the accolade by defying the odds and surpassing the feature-enriched iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. During the same period last year, the iPhone 15 was just one position away from obtaining the same title as Apple’s current-generation base model, losing only to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. In total, the Cupertino firm’s
Qualcomm paid for a study that says its modems beat Apple’s C1
Apple launched C1 , its first in-house 5G modem, earlier this year with the iPhone 16e and early findings suggested it performed well against Qualcomm’s own modems. Now a new study says otherwise—but with the huge asterisk that it was paid for by Qualcomm.
Cellular Insights was commissioned by Qualcomm to perform a study of the iPhone 16e’s C1 modem against two Android smartphones with Qualcomm modems.
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Xiaomi Will Eventually Branch Out Its Custom Chipsets For Non-Flagship Smartphones, And Intends To Go Down Apple’s Path By Launching A 5G Solution
The XRING 01 is just the base of what Xiaomi has in store for future smartphone releases, starting with the company making history by becoming the first Chinese firm to introduce a silicon mass produced on the 3nm process. Eventually, we shall witness the launch of more SoCs tailor-made for the affordable options, with an executive stating that these plans do not just stop here. Similar to Apple’s C1 5G modem, Xiaomi also wants to materialize a baseband chip, but has yet to provide a
Xiaomi refutes claims of using Arm-designed chip for XRing O1
Xiaomi has clarified that its advanced 3-nanometre XRing O1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) is not a customised solution from Arm, pushing back against speculation as the Chinese smartphone maker seeks to design its own integrated circuits (ICs) in-house to rival industry leaders Apple , Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies .
“[XRing O1 SoC] is not based on a complete solution provided by Arm, and claims about it being an Arm-customised chip are groundless,” Xiaomi said on Monday