Qualcomm, the US-based semiconductor company, and its acquired chip design firm Nuvia has been sued by Arm, a chip technology firm owned by Softbank Group, on Wednesday. Arm has raised allegations against both Qualcomm and Nuvia over breach of license agreements and trademark infringement. Nuvia, founded by former Apple chip architects, was acquired by Qualcomm … Read more
US chipmaker Intel said on Monday it will produce chips for Taiwan’s MediaTek, one of the world’s largest chip design firms. The manufacturing arrangement is one of the most significant deals Intel has announced since it launched its so-called foundry business early last year. A foundry business builds chips that other companies design and Taiwan … Read more
MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ was unveiled on Wednesday as the company’s latest smartphone system-on-chip (SoC). The new Dimensity chipset is rated to deliver a five percent boost in CPU performance and more than 10 percent improvement in GPU performance over the Dimensity 9000. The Dimensity 9000+ comes with support for up to 180Hz full-HD+ displays and … Read more
Poco C40 and Poco C40+ names have been confirmed by Poco in a community forum post. The smartphones are expected to join the smartphone brand’s affordable C-series lineup. In an official community forum post, Poco was seeking testers for its MIUI Global Stable ROM. The community post also highlighted the names of the smartphones for … Read more
Security flaws in an audio codec have been uncovered by security researchers, putting millions of Android phones and other Android devices powered by chipsets from MediaTek and Qualcomm at risk of being compromised by hackers. Stemming from an codec created by Apple several years ago, the vulnerabilities were left unpatched since the company open-sourced the … Read more
MediaTek Dimensity 8100 and Dimensity 8000 chipsets were announced by the company on Tuesday. The company’s new chipsets are aimed at the flagship segment and will go head-to-head with rival Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 SoC. The launch of the new chips comes four months after the debut of the 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC, and smartphones … Read more
OnePlus 10R is reportedly set to launch in China and India in Q2 2022, sporting a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC under the hood. The smartphone is set to follow the company’s OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone that was launched in China and is tipped to arrive in global markets in March. The smartphone is also said … Read more
At the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit this week Qualcomm announced a new generation of chips under its Snapdragon branding. The showstopper was Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that is essentially an incremental update to last year’s Snapdragon 888 and is meant for next-generation flagship Android phones coming later this year and next year. The San Diego-based … Read more
At the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit this week Qualcomm announced a new generation of chips under its Snapdragon branding. The showstopper was Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that is essentially an incremental update to last year’s Snapdragon 888 and is meant for next-generation flagship Android phones coming later this year and next year. The San Diego-based … Read more
MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC has been unveiled as the latest flagship processor to take on Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon chipset. It is the first mobile chipset to be built on TSMC’s 4nm process and uses Arm’s new version 9 architecture. The MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC integrates a 10-core Arm Mali-G710 GPU and has a total of … Read more