MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ was unveiled on Thursday as the company’s latest flagship mobile processor for Android smartphones. The new chip features an All Big Core design, and the most powerful core is slightly faster than the one on the Dimensity 9400 SoC that arrived last year. The MediaTek NPU 890 is also claimed to deliver … Read more
Snapdragon X Plus was launched on Wednesday as Qualcomm’s latest Arm-based chip for laptops. It follows the launch of the chipmaker’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon X Elite platform. The latest laptop processor is equipped with a 10-core CPU and a 45 TOPS NPU, along with support for 64GB of RAM. Qualcomm has also touted the on-device artificial … Read more
Xiaomi unveiled the XRING O1 on Thursday as its first in-house chipset for the Xiaomi 15S Pro, and details of the chipset have now surfaced online. It is a 3nm chip that is built using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) advanced N3E process technology, which was also used by Apple, MediaTek and Qualcomm for their … Read more
Intel is preparing to refresh its Arrow Lake processors later this year, and the new CPUs could finally offer support for Microsoft Copilot+ features on desktop computers, according to a report. Desktop PCs with Intel processors don’t have access to Microsoft’s AI features on Windows unlike Copilot+ certified laptops, including those equipped with Arm-based chips from … Read more
Intel Core Ultra 200S series processors for desktop PCs, codenamed Arrow Lake, were launched by the company on Thursday. This is the first desktop offering by the chip maker with a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU). With 36 trillion operations per second (TOPS) performance claimed, these will also be the first Intel chipsets to power … Read more
Qualcomm on Monday unveiled its latest Snapdragon X platform for budget PCs at CES 2025. The company’s latest octa-core CPUs are designed to compete with affordable chips from Intel and AMD, while offering support for AI features via a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) and improved battery efficiency. The new Snapdragon X platform is expected … Read more