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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro’s High Price Isn’t Discouraging Qualcomm’s Partners, As Top Five Android Phone Makers Are Expected To Adopt The 2nm SoC In Their Flagships

Qualcomm, Apple, and MediaTek will unveil their first 2nm chipsets later this year, marking the first time in history that the three companies will leverage TSMC’s cutting-edge lithography. For the San Diego firm, it is rumored that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 will be a part of the company’s announcement, but there are whispers stating that, while the ‘Pro’ variant will offer some exclusive features, such as a faster GPU , LPDDR6 RAM and


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Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus in MSI Laptop Stomps 285HX in Leaked PassMark Run

Despite no-showing at CES 2026, leaks still predict that Intel will launch the Arrow Lake Refresh mobile CPUssometime in March or April 2026, and one of the CPUs slated to launch then is the mobile flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, which has incidentally showed up in a recent PassMark CPU benchmark (via X86isdeadandback on X). According to the PassMark listing, the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, which was supposedly tested in an MSI
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5 PC specs and features I'm done obsessing about in 2026

Not every PC component specification means something in the real world

Apple Silicon|Intel

ASRock X870E Taichi OCF Review

Balancing daily driver credentials with potent overclocking features is no easy task, but ASRock claims to have blended its popular Taichi brand with tools focused on extreme CPU and memory overclocks. We'll see if it has truly mastered everything in just one PCB.

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M6 MacBook Pro OLED Panel Production Underway, With Samsung Initiating The Manufacturing Of These Displays Far Ahead Of Schedule

Apple will finally introduce a significant redesign to its M6 MacBook Pro , with the company bidding farewell to mini-LED and bringing OLED technology in its place. With Samsung having years of experience under its belt in manufacturing these particular panels, the firm has reportedly started production of these displays sooner than expected, hinting that the revamped portable Mac family could arrive much earlier. Unfortunately, assuming the majority of readers are unaware, only the M6 Pro and M6 Max configurations are expected to ship with the OLED panel and


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M5 Max’s Estimated GPU Scores Are Higher Than The M3 Ultra With Its 80-Core Configuration, While Boasting A 34% Performance Lead Over M4 Max

The new year has already crossed the halfway point of the first month, which only means we should prepare ourselves for the M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra launches, which are expected to happen in H1 . We’ve already witnessed a glimpse of the M5 Max’s estimated gaming performance, with the chipset outperforming a laptop RTX 5070 Ti GPU while running circles around its predecessor, the M4 Max. On this occasion, some Geekbench 6 Metal scores show that


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Qualcomm video teases Snapdragon X2 “desktops,” but the footage points to mini PCs

Qualcomm promo video hints at Snapdragon X Series “desktops”, but the footage looks like mini PCs

Qualcomm has posted a new Snapdragon X Series promotional video that repeatedly uses desktop wording, including the line “Snapdragon powers next-generation desktops.” One slide also claims the “flexible PCs bring what legacy desktops don’t,” framing Snapdragon X as a driver for desktop form factors.

A Reddit thread quickly interpreted the messaging as a tease for a next-generation Snapdragon X platform landing in desktops. But the video

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A Lucky Customer Recounts How A Battery Service Visit For His Aging MacBook Pro At An Apple Store Outlet Landed Him A $4,000+ M4 Max Model At Zero Cost

Apple’s M4 Max is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and efficient chipsets of this generation, able to stand ‘toe to toe’ with those power-hungry and beastly desktop processors and run circles around them. Of course, achieving this level of performance comes at a literal cost, with the lowest price for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the aforementioned chip, with a . In short, you need to cough up a serious sum to become the proud owner of these portable powerhouses, but one


Apple Silicon|Intel

Apple forced to ‘fight’ for chip capacity, pay higher TSMC prices: report

Apple’s once dominant position as a TSMC customer is facing fresh challenges as the AI boom raises GPU demand from companies like NVIDIA and AMD, according to .

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When CC Wei visited Cupertino last August, he had bad news for his largest client. Apple would need to acquiesce to the largest price rise in years, TSMC’s CEO told its executives.

Tim Cook and his team took the news on the chin. Wei had been telegraphing hikes in earnings calls over the past few quarters, and the Taiwanese chip


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ASUS shows off next-gen W890 motherboard for Xeon 6 WS series with seven PCIe 5.0 slots

ASUS presents the first W890 motherboard, Intel says they ‘missed it’

The board uses the new LGA 4710 socket and comes in an EEB form factor. ASUS did not confirm a final name, but the branding points to a Pro WS W890-SAGE successor to the Pro WS W790-SAGE SE.

ASUS shows a board with eight DDR5 DIMM slots, seven full-length PCIe slots, and a workstation-class layout in an EEB form factor

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