News & Reviews:   Processor

It's almost time for the next-gen flagship war with the chip makers preparing their 4nm offerings for the smartphone companies. According to a Chinese tipster from Weibo, the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 2000 will be based on TSMC's 4nm process, which might give it a chance to rival other powerful contenders.

The next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship chipset is expected to launch this December, with Xiaomi running to be the first to introduce smartphones with it. Although it'll be quite some time before we reach there, the first benchmark of the Snapdragon 895 or 898 has been unveiled.

Mobile processor manufacturers like Qualcomm, MediaTek and also Apple are looking forward to getting their first batch of 4nm process to have a head start in the next-generation flagship processors fight. With that said, it is reported that MediaTek is striving to roll out 4nm-based processors before anyone this time, becoming the first to do so in the industry.

We all already know that AMD is participating in the development of Samsung's next flagship smartphone processor, Exynos 2200. Before it even gets released, the graphics performance of the upcoming product is already confirmed to beat Apple's A14 Bionic chip's.

The Mediatek Dimesity 900 chipset that is said to perform better than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 768G chipset has arrived today. The new processor is the latest member of the Dimensity 5G SoC lineup and it is based on a high performance 6nm process.

While some may prefer the convenience of laptops, desktops are still a mainstay for many corporations. AMD's Ryzen APUs are great in that sense, as they are relatively affordable yet provide good performance. In fact, the next generation of APUs is coming soon.

News has reported that Qualcomm is preparing for an ARM-based Snapdragon 8cx chip for Windows 10 to compete against Apple's M1 chip. Sadly, this new benchmark leak of the upcoming chip might be here to tell you not to put too much hope on it.

At this year's CES, Intel has gone all out by announcing four new processor families that aim to cater to users' different needs. The processors announced are the 11th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors, 11th Gen Intel Core vPro processors, N-series 10-nanometer Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors, and 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors. Besides that, the tech giant has also given a sneak peek at the next-gen processor "Alder Lake" which could compete with Apple's M1.

Based on a statement by gizmodo, it seems that there could be a possibility that Microsoft might unveil their own ARM processors sometimes in the near future. While there is no news on the exact release date of the chips, our source did mention that it will most likely be used for the Azure cloud servers, as well as their Surface laptops.

A report by BusinessKorea states that Samsung will be supplying chipsets to smartphone manufacturing companies such as Xiaomi, vivo, as well as OPPO. With that all being said, we can expect the chipsets to be available on lower-end smartphones while Qualcomm’s chipsets will be used for mid-range and higher-end smartphones.