News & Reviews:   SoC

Yesterday, we reported on MediaTek’s unveiling of its new mid-tier mobile chipset, the Dimensity 1080. Not long after the announcement by Mediatek, we’ve already gotten confirmation from realme VP Madhav Sheth that the SoC will be powering new realme devices by the end of the year.

MediaTek has unveiled its latest mid-tier mobile chipset, the Dimensity 1080 which offers better performance, efficiency and imaging capabilities compared to its predecessor the Dimensity 920. The chipset supports 5G connectivity too and will be powering devices as early as the end of 2022.

Although it has only been less than two months since the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, we have now received the latest information claiming that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus will make it to the market soon.

With the recent announcement of the Google Pixel 6 series, Google has joined Apple, Samsung and Huawei for making its own chipset - the Google Tensor. Besides these phone brands, other Android phone manufacturers rely on either Qualcomm or MediaTek for chipsets. However, there are now new reports that OPPO is developing a new chipset as well.

Samsung produces in-house chipsets, but they barely get used by the company's own smartphones. However, things might be changing soon as the latest report claims that the Korean tech giant is planning to push the usage of the Exynos chip among the Galaxy devices.

As some of you may know, TSMC is manufacturing the A14X Bionic chipset for Apple's next iteration of the iPad Pro and iPad Air. With the move to 5nm, this chipset is expected to deliver greater performance and power efficiency. We're seeing some signs of that now after some benchmark data for it was leaked yesterday.

Now that Apple is making the transition from Intel chips to ARM chips for its MacBooks, many have been eager to see what kind of differences this change could entail. And from what the latest rumour suggests, the change is going to be a huge one. Sources have reported that that the 12-inch MacBook is making a comeback and it's going to have a sweet retail price.

We've been seeing a few new Helio chipsets from MediaTek, but the company has been focusing mostly on its Dimensity series of chipsets. The latest one is the Dimensity 720, a new 5G chipset that we saw hints of with the OPPO A72 leak a few days ago. MediaTek has now launched this chipset, which will provide mid-range devices with 5G connectivity.

While we may just saw the launch of the latest and greatest SoC from Qualcomm, we have yet to know how the SoC is like in terms of performance. A new report has been spotted online, showing the possible specs of the 835, as well as the mid-tier 660 as well.