News & Reviews:   chipset

You may have noticed that Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered smartphones are quite expensive. That's because the new chipset costs more than its predecessor. So, is there an alternative that is better but cheaper? Recent rumours say "Yes".

Every year, Samsung launches a new flagship Exynos chipset and many would wonder "Is this the year?" We don't know if the Exynos 2400 is 'it' quite yet. But Samsung clearly isn't giving up on developing Exynos chips because the Exynos 2500 is already in the works.

For years, Qualcomm was known as the chipmaker for mobile devices. However, the company does have some PC chipsets, albeit in the low-performance category. Now, sources suggest that Qualcomm could unveil another PC chipset at the upcoming Snapdragon Summit.

Nowadays, many of Huawei's smartphones either have a Qualcomm or MediaTek chipset. There are several reasons for that, but Kirin chipsets aren't as commonly used. But Kirin is still around and could launch a new chipset with the Huawei nova 12 series soon.

If you look at chipsets for the smartphone market, it's more or less a two-horse race between Qualcomm and MediaTek. Both companies are expected to launch their latest flagship mobile chipset later this month. Best of all, we're already getting details for the latter's new Dimensity 9300.

In recent months, AI has been one of the biggest tech topics on everyone's mind. Many companies are looking into different ideas like generative AI, and some have tried implementing these ideas in mobile devices. In fact, ChatGPT was released recently on iOS and Android.

Qualcomm has been developing AI tech for more than a decade. With the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, they provide AI capabilities to flagship mobile devices. But how does the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 help with AI? Here are some of the AI-powered features I've found.

These days, many companies have foldable devices, with big brands like Samsung leading the front on innovation. Unfortunately, none of these devices are cheap. But what tech specs would an affordable foldable phone have? We decided to fantasise about what you could see from a sub-RM3000 mid-range foldable flip phone.

For the longest time, ARM-based chipsets followed the ARM big.LITTLE concept. The idea is to have a CPU with performance cores and power efficiency cores. But we could see a new MediaTek chipset later this year that abandons or changes that concept.

Back in March, it was rumoured that Apple would be launching new Apple M3-powered PCs by this year. The iMac is likely to get the upgrade first, followed by the MacBook Air at a later date. Now, we also have some information on one of the M3 chip's configuration.

The MediaTek Dimensity 8050 chipset has been officially announced. Built on a 6nm fabrication process, the chipset utilizes 4 Cortex-A78 cores and 4 Cortex-A55 cores. The Cortex-A78 cores actually consist of 1 3Ghz Super Core and 3 2.6Ghz Performance Cores for that jump in performance when you need it.