Best Technology Stuff from Around the World
Now that Qualcomm and MediaTek have both presented their high-end socs for next year’s phones, we can put them side by side. How do the socs differ from each other and on what points do they correspond? With the announcement of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Qualcomm has presented the soc that will probably be … Read more
MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity 7000-soc is built on TSMC’s 5nm process, similar to the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, and features an eight-core CPU with four Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. This is evident from leaked specs. More details have emerged about MediaTek’s recently teased new soc, the Dimensity 7000. Renowned leaker Digital Chat Station … Read more
Samsung has released its budget device, the Galaxy A03. The device is related to the A03s, A02S and A02. Those are Samsung’s cheapest devices. They differ among themselves in terms of the soc, among other things. According to the announcement, the A03 will receive an unnamed octacore processor at 1.6GHz, paired with 3 or 4GB … Read more
OPPO has released a series of new Reno phones consisting of the Reno7 Pro 5G, Reno 7 5G and Reno7 SE 5G. The Pro variant has an LED strip around the camera island at the back, which functions as a notification LED. The phones will first appear in China. OPPO announced the Reno7 series at … Read more
Check Point Research has discovered four vulnerabilities in drivers of all MediaTek stocks. The processor designer has since closed it. The security company discovered the vulnerabilities by reverse engineering parts of the firmware. The leaks are in the dsp, the digital signal processor of all MediaTek-socs, Check Point reports. They turned out to be possible … Read more
Panasonic is releasing firmware for its OLED TVs this year: the JZ980, JZ1000, JZ1500 and the JZ2000. This update is also available for the JX940, a 4K LCD TV. This displays 4k120 in full resolution and VRR can be combined with 4k and HDR10. The improvements added in firmware version 3.124 only work through a … Read more
Only Snapdragon socs can handle the Arm version of Windows, due to an exclusive agreement between Qualcomm and Microsoft. That is what XDA Developers claims. That agreement would expire ‘soon’. Microsoft and Qualcomm teamed up to support Arm PC chips in Windows, giving Qualcomm an exclusive deal to supply Arm PCs for Windows, XDA Developers … Read more
MediaTek has introduced its new Pentanic 2000 soc. This 7nm chip is intended for 8k televisions with a refresh rate of 120Hz. 8k televisions with the chip will appear next year. MediaTek claims that its Pentonic 2000 is the first commercial all-in-one television soc to support 8k120 displays. The chip is built on TSMC’s N7 … Read more
AMD has announced its own RZ600 modules with Wi-Fi 6E support. The modules are based on MediaTek’s new Filogic 330P chipset, and AMD is pushing them forward to combine with Ryzen processors in laptops and desktops. MediaTek’s Filogic 330P chipset offers support for 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E, which uses the 6GHz band in … Read more
MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9000 soc, the first mobile soc to use TSMC’s 4nm process and the first soc to use Arm’s new cores, including the Cortex X2 core. At the beginning of next year, the first smartphones with the soc should appear. The Dimensity 9000-soc will get eight cores, all of which are … Read more