Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

Back when the Note7 fiasco was in full swing, YouTube user HitmanNiko uploaded a video of his GTA V mod, where he modified one of the explosives in the game to look like the Note7. The video did get quite popular on the internet and several others...

Samsung has announced a new 8GB LPDDR4 DRAM package, the first of its kind in the world. The package utilizes four of the newly developed 10nm-class 16Gb (gigabit) LPDDR4 DRAM. The new 8GB LPDDR4 is said to operate at 4266 Mbps, which is...

HiSilicon unveiled the new Kirin 960 chipset, which puts the Huawei-owned chip maker a step ahead of the competition. With the Huawei Mate 9 around the corner, you have to wonder how long we’ll wait before we see a 960-powered device. The new...

Samsung's in-house Exynos chip division has really been upping its game recently and expanding its lineup. We all know the impressive flagship Exynos 8890 Octa, powering on of the Galaxy S7 variants. Then, there is the excellent Exynos 7870 Octa,...

Qualcomm is preparing its next flagship chipset, dubbed the Snapdragon 830. We have already heard a lot about the new silicon, like the fact that it will likely be able to support up to 8GB of RAM, will bear the model designation MSM8998 and will...

Is it just us, or are rumors starting to come in earlier and earlier these days? Just a quick skim through the news section managed to reveal quite a bit of info on next year's Samsung Galaxy S8. Now we are starting to hear about its internals as...

Qualcomm has announced two new Snapdragon models, the 600E and 410E, where the E stands for Embedded. These two models have been designed specifically for embedded computing and Internet of Things applications. This includes devices such as set-top...

Word of a possible partnership between Samsung and MediaTek has been popping up periodically for some time now. There is still no official confirmation, but all clues seem to point squarely to one conclusion - the Korean giant is planning to start...

We are now only hours away from the official unveiling of the Xiaomi Mi 5s. And if you have been keeping up with the rumor mill, then you likely know already that it is more or less an upgraded version of the company's current flagship offer....

Samsung's Exynos chipsets won a reputation as top performers last year, but now the company has started mass production of chipsets for the masses - the Exynos 7570 Quad. The new chipset is aimed at entry level phones as it has a quad-core...

MediaTek is pushing further into the flagship chipset market with the Helio X30. The chipset is a successor to the first deca-core (that is 10-core) chipset, the X20. The chip will be built on a premium process - 10nm, down from X20's 20nm....

Google's project Tango is among the company's most ambitious tech endeavors of late. And with the first Tango end user device, the Lenovo Phab2 Pro, already a reality, Google and its hardware partner - Qualcomm are naturally planning for the...

OLED shipments are growing - 91.3 million OLED displays were shipped during the first three months of this year. It's largely phones that bear these displays, but some TVs do too. Samsung Display is the dominant force in this market, the Samsung...

OmniVison has become a household brand name when it comes to sensors and chances are you have used a device equipped with one of its sensors. The new Motorola Moto G 4 Plus, for instance, utilizes the company's 1/2.4-inch OV16860 16MP sensor with...

Samsung just announced a new SSD that's tiny in physical size but huge in capacity. The chip offers up 512GB storage and is the first ever to offer NVMe in a BGA package. 256GB and 128GB options are also available. The SSDs promise sequential...

Analyst Pan Jiutang revealed on Weibo today the MediaTek Helio X30 chipset will be manufactured using a 10nm manufacturing process. According to him, the Helio X30 will come with ten CPU cores - the Cortex-A35 will be used for non-demanding tasks,...

Samsung Semiconductor executives have held a special invite-only meet-up with potential new customers in Silicon Valley. The reason behind the event is the announcement of plans for a new and cheaper 14-nanometer manufacturing process. Re/Code...

OmniVison might not be a household brand name, but chances are you might have used a device equipped with one of its 8MP sensors at one time or another, it is a popular selfie shooter choice. The company is also behind the camera equipment used in...

After carefully reporting on all the various device announcements and demos at MWC 2016, like the Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5 and Xiaomi Mi 5, to name a few, we can safely say that mobile photography is a big buzzword this year. All the major players...

In keeping with its current product development path, as well as naming convention, MediaTek expanded its "P" family of chipsets with a new model - the Helio P20, expected to come to consumer devices in the second half of 2016. It is an...