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Apple’s A19, A19 Pro Shipments Are Eating Into Competitors’ Global Market Share, But Latest Research Shows MediaTek Still Holds The Highest Share For Q3 2025

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500 are top-tier chipsets powering a plethora of Android flagships, but their launch wasn’t sufficient to deter Apple’s momentum because the latter’s A19 and A19 Pro picked up in pace for shipments recorded during Q3 2025. However, despite the iPhone 17 series selling like hotcakes, MediaTek had the highest market share out of all vendors, but the situation might worsen for both the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor manufacturer


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Apple’s Upcoming Low-Cost MacBook Was Tested With An A15 Bionic, Making It Slower Than The Current-Generation iPad, Retail Versions Said To Feature An A18 Pro

The MacBook Air series could be eclipsed by a low-cost MacBook that has been reported on multiple occasions to be equipped with an A18 Pro, which the same chipset powering the previous-generation iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. However, an internal kernel debug kit suggests that Apple was testing its affordable portable Mac with an A15 Bionic, a silicon found in the iPhone 13 family. Assuming this SoC ended up powering an actual retain unit, it would be slower than Apple


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Apple Has Reportedly Kicked Off iMac OLED Development With a Screen Size Of 24 Inches, Will Tout Higher Brightness Levels But Resolution Said To Remain Unchanged

The first wave of larger computing products from Apple to feature an OLED will launch next year, when the company announces the M6 MacBook Pro series, followed by the iPad mini 8. The 24-inch iMac, which has shipped with an IPS LCD panel for years, could receive a much-needed upgrade to OLED as the technology giant has reportedly started development of the new display. The improved panel is said to feature a higher brightness level than the standard LCD variant, but the pixel density is said to


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MSI laptops powered by Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” series already spotted at retailers

MSI Prestige series powered by Panther Lake CPUs listed by retailers

Featuring the flagship Core Ultra X9 SKU as well.

Not one but four MSI laptops appeared today in French retail listings. The entries point to Intel Core Ultra 300-series parts, including the X variants that are expected to ship with stronger integrated graphics. Hardware detective momomo_us spotted multiple MSI model codes starting with 9S7, which often maps to MSI’s internal SKU system, and the 14i and 16i naming

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Asahi Linux Gets Microphone Working For M2 Pro/Max, Eyes Installer Improvements

The Asahi Linux project is out with their latest status report to highlight upstream improvements made for the newly-minted Linux 6.18 kernel as well as some of their efforts going on downstream within Asahi Linux itself.

The Asahi Linux developers have managed to largely sort out the microphone support for Apple Macs using the M2 Pro or M2 Max SoCs. The M1 Pro/Max SoCs in Apple devices have enjoyed full microphone support but for the M2 Pro/Max devices the support didn't carry over

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Apple may be reviving the iMac Pro with M5 Max chip


According to MacRumors, further data mining of a previously reported kernel debug kit leak has revealed that Apple is developing an iMac Pro equipped with an M5 Max SoC. If released, it would be the company's first all-in-one workstation since 2017 and the first iMac Pro to utilize Apple Silicon.

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Apple May Refresh iMac Pro Desktop AIO, But Without Top-Tier M5 Ultra SoC

An Ultra variant of Apple's M5 SoC line-up has been rumored for a while now, specifically when it comes to Apple's Mac Studio, which has more or less become the brand's de-facto high-end desktop workstation lineup. Given that the M3 Ultra occupied the top position in Apple's chip line-up, it was expected that if Apple ever released an update to the Apple iMac Pro, it would feature the Ultra model of the current SoC family. However

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Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports - Reuters

Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports Reuters

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Apple’s iMac Pro Could Finally Be Making A Return But Its Innards Will Not Include The Powerful M5 Ultra

Around eight years have passed since Apple introduced its Intel-based iMac Pro with an expensive $4,999 starting price, and looking at how the company’s in-house silicon outpaces desktop processors in both performance and efficiency, we shouldn’t be surprised that the ‘All In One’ workstation wasn’t getting remembered. However, the California-based giant could finally be answering the prayers of a small percentage of potential buyers who hoped to see an updated model. According to the latest internal


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New M5 iMac model aimed at pro users might be coming, per leak

Rumors indicate Apple has a packed lineup of new Macs coming next year , and the latest leak indicates there could be a surprise reappearance of the iMac Pro with M5.

Leaked Apple code has revealed plenty of forthcoming hardware and software details over the past week. And the latest has been .

A new high-end iMac model with M5 Max chip has been uncovered in “leaked kernel debug kit files used by Apple engineers.”

The current M4 iMac doesn’t offer any pro-level chip configurations such

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