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Apple secretly worked with China’s BYD on long-range EV battery

Apple and Shenzhen-based BYD teamed up around 2017 to build a battery system using lithium iron phosphate cells.

Apple Silicon|Intel

New Microsoft Surface Laptop model leaks with Core Ultra 7 268V and 32GB of RAM

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Rumor mill: Microsoft is promoting their Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X processors as a paradigm shift in AI capabilities, efficiency, and battery life. After all, they used the device to inaugurate the company's Copilot+ branding. But now, following some impressive early results from Intel's Lunar Lake Core 200V processors, leaks suggest that Microsoft will continue updating its Intel and Qualcomm-powered Surface laptops

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New iPad mini 7 seems to have a binned version of the A17 Pro chip

Apple on Tuesday announced a new generation of the iPad mini , coming three years after the introduction of the iPad mini 6. From the outside, looks exactly the same as its predecessor, but there’s an important change inside: the A17 Pro chip. Although many have claimed that this is the same chip as the , it seems that the is powered by a binned version of the chip.

The A17 Pro chip was introduced last year with the , and until then these were the only devices

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iPhone SE isn’t known for new tech, but one cutting edge upgrade is coming

No one knows what the ‘SE’ in iPhone SE really stands for. But we do know one thing: Apple’s SE devices aren’t known for introducing brand new tech. That’s set to change this spring, though, when the new iPhone SE is expected to come with one cutting edge upgrade: the very first Apple-made modem for handling 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

Once upon a time, Apple’s SE branding didn’t refer to budget

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Microsoft Prepares New Surface Laptop Based On Intel Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” SoCs

Microsoft is preparing an Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" variant of its Surface laptops, and a prototype model has surfaced in China. Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 With Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" SoC Gets Listed On Chinese Marketplace, Retailing At a Hefty Price Tag While we saw several other manufacturers, such as ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI, unveiling their laptops based on Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" CPUs, for Microsoft,

Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) Synaptics Launches New Veros Brand with Two Dual-Band Wireless Chips

Synaptics Incorporated today launched the Veros Seamless Intelligent Connectivity brand with high-performance systems on chip (SoCs) for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4. Signifying leadership and innovation, Veros encapsulates decades of field-hardened technology and IoT connectivity expertise. It encompasses Synaptics' entire wireless portfolio of proven solutions characterized by superior performance, interoperability, coexistence, power efficiency, and bill of materials integration.

The new high-performance SoCs, the SYN4383 and SYN

Apple Silicon|Intel

Qualcomm Estimated To Make $1.62 Billion In Revenue From Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Sales, 15 Percent Increase In Average Selling Price Will Contribute To That Figure

This year will be the first where Qualcomm unveils its first 3nm chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, but it is not the only vendor out there with a silicon that is mass produced on TSMC’s cutting-edge architecture, which raises the competition bar. Going into 2025, the San Diego firm will face some challenges along the way, but it is still expected to generate a hefty sum from Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 sales alone. The latest estimate reveals that the company could accumulate as much

Apple Silicon

ARM-Based Chipsets Are Estimated To Be Found In 40 Percent Of All Notebooks Shipped In 2029, Claims Newest Research

Notebooks powered by ARM-based chipsets started picking up steam when Apple first announced the M1 back in 2020, with its performance rivaling that of high-end desktop processors and efficiency levels that could not be matched by any competitor. Intel and AMD have attempted to introduce their x86 counterparts that share the same attributes, but looking at the current trends, it is clear that ARM notebooks have cemented their position in this market, and their market share is only said to increase from hereon. One

Apple Silicon

iPad mini 7 Is Outfitted With A Less Powerful Version Of The A17 Pro With Fewer Graphics Cores, Hinting At The Use Of Chip-Binning From Apple Once Again

Apple delivered one of the biggest surprises of 2024 by unveiling the iPad mini 7, and where everyone thought that the compact tablet would be outfitted with at least an A18 Pro, the company went ahead and used last year’s A17 Pro that powered the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. However, a closer look at the specifications reveals that the A17 Pro present in the device is not the same as what Apple unveiled in 2023,

Apple Silicon|Intel

What the Intel-AMD x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group is, and What it's Not

AVX-512 was proposed by Intel more than a decade ago—in 2013 to be precise. A decade later, the implementation of this instruction set on CPU cores remains wildly spotty—Intel implemented it first on an HPC accelerator, then its Xeon server processors, then its client processors, before realizing that hardware hasn't caught up with the technology to execute AVX-512 instructions in an energy-efficient manner, before deprecating it on the client. AMD implemented it just a
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