The A17 Pro is a solid performer, as demonstrated by its gaming prowess when powering last year’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple certainly caught us by surprise when it unveiled its updated iPad mini 7 with the same chipset but with one notable downgrade in which the SoC ships with a 5-core GPU instead of a 6-core one. Fortunately, this change has not deterred the tablet’s gaming capabilities, as demonstrated in two titles, with the compact slate maintaining

British chip design Arm Ltd has purportedly thrown a spanner in the global smartphone industry by warning semiconductor design giant Qualcomm that it will cancel Qualcomm's chip design license as part of a dispute between the two that dates back to 2022, reports Bloomberg. Arm refused to comment on the report, with Qualcomm accusing the firm of trying to strong arm it. Arm's chip designs sit at the heart of the multi billion dollar global smartphone industry as its processors are used in smartphones of all performance ranges.

Chinese consumers have been vocal about their desire to see Apple bring its generative AI services to China as soon as possible.

Xiaomi, OnePlus, Realme and Honor have announced devices with the new chip as they look to take on Apple and Samsung in AI.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is currently the fastest smartphone chipset in Geekbench 6’s multi-core results, which is a major deal because it has been years since Apple has finally met its match. However, the same benchmarking application reveals that Qualcomm’s latest and greatest SoC continues to lag behind the A18 Pro when it comes to power efficiency and single core results. Snapdragon 8 Elite consumes slightly higher power than the A18 Pro but posts a lower score in Geekbench 6’s single-core results

Apple is gearing up to launch various Macs with M4 chip refresh, and it appears that the release will be sooner than expected. It was originally speculated that the M4 MacBook Pro, revamped Mac mini, and the 24-inch iMac would be announced on November 1, but the iPad mini 7's early release stirred up rumors of an early Mac refresh. Mark Gurman is now claiming that Apple will launch Macs with an M4 chip "very soon," potentially on Wednesday next week. Apple