The Snapdragon X series of chipsets has carved its place in the computer industry, but Qualcomm has a ton of ground to cover in both adoption and technological improvements. The recent Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme are ideal examples of the San Diego firm’s desire to take on its chip rivals, but it needs that extra boost that could be fulfilled by the recent hiring of former AMD executive Jason Banta. He will now serve as Qualcomm’s Vice President of Global Compute Sales, putting him in charge of consumer and commercial ‘go to market’ channels. Banta’s 23-year career […]

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Apple is expected to treat its low-cost MacBook with the same importance as its more expensive portable Macs, as the technology giant has been reported to utilize the same unibody aluminum chassis paired with some bright colors, so the machine stands out from the competition. However, the Cupertino firm had an entirely different plan for when it launched the M2 MacBook Air, as the latter was supposed to be treated to the aforementioned finishes, at least according to the latest rumor. Apple’s invite image suggests that the low-cost MacBook will arrive in the colors blue, green, and blue, with these finishes expected to debut […]

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The iPhone Air is Apple’s first to ship with the company’s new and improved C1X 5G modem, ensuring better performance, reliability, and efficiency than Qualcomm’s X75 running in the previous-generation iPhone 16 lineup, but the first crack in the technology giant’s in-house baseband solutions may have appeared. An owner of the company’s sleek flagship found out one morning that the device had no cellular reception, and when he dove into the network settings, he found that the C1X had suffered a hardware failure. This incident is highly interesting, and we can imagine that Apple will be curious about what caused the […]

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The semiconductor business belonging to Samsung is experiencing a comeback wave, with the major contributor to this segment being increased RAM and NAND flash prices because of the ongoing shortage, which the Korean giant has capitalized on. However, the company isn’t stopping here because it has set lofty goals towards accumulating a healthy margin for the year, with estimates projecting that an operating profit of $69 billion or a 121 percent annual increase will be attained in 2026. To reach this figure, a new report states that Samsung will make adjustments to its strategies and production lines for its semiconductor division […]

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Apple has announced that it will host a product launch on March 4, which can potentially be the date for its M5 Pro and M5 Max that will be found in updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. One of the chipsets’ biggest highlights is that both SoCs will switch to TSMC’s 2.5D chiplet design as Apple moves away from InFO technology (Integrated Fan-Out). This transition helps to improve heat dissipation and reduce defective chip rates, but there’s one obstacle that the technology giant has been unable to scale for two generations, and that is raising the total number of CPU […]

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