Apple has been making the most of the ongoing memory 'chipflation' by freezing the prices of its sprawling portfolio of products in a bid to gain market share. But this does not mean that the iPhone manufacturer is immune to the ongoing biting cost surges. As a matter of fact, despite recent corroborative commentary, you should not count on the base iPhone 18 sporting a 12GB RAM, especially as memory costs are slated to make up a whopping 45 percent of a given iPhone's Bill of Materials (BOM) by next year. LPDDR5, which made up just 10 percent of a […]

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As Samsung's unionized workers grow ever bolder, egged on by the rapidly fattening purse of its memory business, which has spurred calls for pay/bonus hikes from other divisions as well, Samsung is eyeing the nuclear option of definitively splitting up the conglomerate by spinning off its semiconductor-focused Device Solutions (DS) division. Irked by rising calls for pay/bonus hikes from its less profitable business units, Samsung is eyeing a spin-off of its very lucrative DS division into an entirely different company The top echelons of Samsung's management appear to be in a panic mode ahead of an impending workers' strike, so […]

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It wouldn't be Google if it did not somehow try to hobble its Tensor-class chips. And, this unfortunate trend appears all set to continue with the upcoming Tensor G6 SoC, which is quite likely to sport a GPU that launched all the way back in 2021! A new leak indicates that the Google Tensor G6 chip will sport the PowerVR CXT-48-1536 GPU that debuted in 2021 As our readers would be well aware, we had ripped into Google a few months back for using generations-old ARM CPU cores within the Tensor G5 chip. Thankfully, as per recent leaks, Google has […]

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Apple is banking on the upcoming iOS 27 and macOS 27 updates to regain relevance in the edge AI sphere, with plans already underfoot to launch a new, highly capable, Gemini-backed, and wholly integrated chatbot-style Siri. Even so, Apple's ambitions for the upcoming updates are apparently much more expansive than previously believed, with the Cupertino-based tech giant now eyeing an unassailable lead in AI-driven photo-editing capabilities. Apple is planning to use its on-device AI models to "extend, enhance, and reframe photos" within iOS 27 and macOS 27 According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with the upcoming iOS 27 and macOS 27 […]

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Samsung took a lead by launching its S Pen all the way back in 2011, while Apple only debuted its version, dubbed the Apple Pencil, in 2015 after implementing a number of refinements. Now, after over a decade, Samsung appears poised to finally concede the superiority of Apple's implementation by replicating the Apple Pencil Pro tech within its S Pen. The next-gen Samsung S Pen might work a lot like the Apple Pencil Pro For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the digitizer layer within the screen stack of an iPad is able to detect capacitive (electrical) […]

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Elaborate scams can and do mimic official channels. Even so, no one should be able to send you notifications via the Verizon app. And yet, this is exactly what appears to be happening, at least as per anecdotal evidence gleaned from a troubling recent incident. Scammers are now apparently sending Verizon customers notifications from the official app, adding a convincing sheen of authenticity to their elaborate fraud schemes A Redditor has just detailed their harrowing experience as the supposed mark in an elaborate Verizon-linked scam. The story begins on a recent Friday, when our Redditor, who goes by the username […]

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Samsung's much-anticipated entry in the rapidly populating AR space is finally taking shape in the form of Galaxy Glasses. And now, we have just received some of the first renders of the new augmented reality device, which appears to be borrowing a lot of design cues from Meta's Ray-Bans and Google's Gemini Glasses. Galaxy Glasses will be Samsung's second Android XR device, following the launch of the Galaxy XR headset last year OnLeaks and Android Headlines have now published some of the very first renders of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses, which will leverage the Android XR platform and Gemini […]

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It seems the ongoing AI mania will not relegate the good ol' smartphone obsolete after all, judging by the purported collaboration between OpenAI, Qualcomm, and MediaTek on a custom smartphone processor, raising huge red flags for Apple's iPhones in the process. OpenAI is paving the way to conquer Apple's iPhones with its vision of what the smartphone's future would look like: a real-time data collection repository to enable continuous AI agent inference We already know that OpenAI has been working on a range of consumer-oriented AI devices. These include AI-powered earbuds that bear the internal codename "Sweetpea" and might retail […]

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Samsung might opt for a silicon-carbon (Si/C) battery within its next-gen flagships, including the Galaxy S27 Ultra. Even so, the South Korean tech behemoth is apparently playing it very safe and refusing to go wild with 10,000mAh-like battery capacities for its Galaxy S27 series. While this tidbit might disappoint some, given the fact that 6,000mAh+ battery capacities are increasingly becoming the norm with Chinese smartphones, we contend that the rumored 5,800mAh battery for the Galaxy S27 Ultra will be more than enough, courtesy of two key innovations. Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra to sport the uber-efficient M16 OLED screen, with overall […]

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Samsung made a generational leap by introducing a novel heat sink within the Exynos 2600 chip, substantially improving its thermal stability in the process. Even so, with the upcoming Exynos 2700 chip, Samsung intends to build on its budding momentum by opting for an innovative side-by-side (SBS) architecture alongside a more refined heat sink, unlocking a significant jump in memory bandwidth. Samsung is banking on a novel SBS architecture and a more refined heat sink to improve the real-world performance of its upcoming Exynos 2700 chip As a refresher, the Exynos 2700 chip is expected to leverage Samsung's SF2P process, […]

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Samsung management appears intractable, unwilling to yield to the bonus-related demands of its unionized workers, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown next month. As the world's largest memory-related production capacity now appears headed for an utter paralysis, industry fears continue to mount, especially as production restoration might take twice as long as the planned 18-day strike. The wider semiconductor industry is gripped with fears of a prolonged production halt at Samsung, which would worsen the ongoing DRAM shortage As a refresher, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, […]

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