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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC has shown up on the Geekbench 6.2 database. Its single and multi-threaded scores show minimal improvements over the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.

The MediaTek Dimensity 8300's Arm Mali-G615 MP6 GPU scores 9,112 points in Geekbench's OpenCL test, putting it on par with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. MediaTek plans to unveil the AP later today.

"Chips are the new oil", proclaims MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai. The company will be pivoting more of its resources towards computing with a special focus on the fast-growing automobile sector for 2024 and beyond.

Google introduced the Tensor series of chips with the Pixel 6 series in 2021. It was meant to usher in a range of chips specially tailored by Google to keep up with its class-leading AI-based software features. Just three Tensor chips in, and many of Google’s new AI features need to be off-loaded to the cloud for processing.

The mid-range MediaTek Dimensity 8300 has shown up on Geekbench. It performs remarkably better than the Dimensity 8200 and outdoes the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 in multi-core performance.

MediaTek has unveiled its first-ever Radio Frequency System-On-Chip (RFSOC), the T600. It is manufactured on TSMC's 6 nm process and uses one Cortex-A35 CPU core.

MediaTek has announced two new Wi-Fi 7-ready chips, the Filogic 860 and 360. The former is a standalone device complete with its own 3-core CPU, whereas the latter is reserved for smartphones/laptops/tablets and other IoT devices.

Qualcomm has officially unveiled its newest upper-mid-range SoC, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3. It comes with a tri-cluster GPU, an Adreno 720 GPU, a Spectra ISP and a Hexagod NPU.

Microsoft has finally unveiled its own custom silicon. The Maia 100 is Microsoft's AI accelerator designed for the Azure stack to train OpenAI's complex LLMs. The Cobalt 100 is an ARM-based chip with 128 cores aimed at optimizing power efficiency across Azure datacenters. Additionally, Microsoft has announced new Azure VMs powered by Nvidia H100 and AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs.

Radxa has introduced the ZERO 3E, a single-board computer that shares many features with the ZERO 3W. While the Radxa ZERO 3E misses out on eMMC flash storage and wireless connectivity but gains a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet port that supports Power over Ethernet.

Banana Pi has introduced the BPI-M7, a 92 x 62 mm single-board computer powered by a Rockchip RK3588 chipset and up to 32 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. The Banana BPI-M7 also has an M.2 2280 slot that supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSDs, among other features.

Unveiled earlier this year and currently the fastest solution available for smartphones and tablets, the LPDDR5T memory from SK hynix is now shipping to corporate customers. Such a client is Vivo, a brand that announced two MediaTek Dimensity 9300-powered handsets that use the new memory, namely X100 and X100 Pro.

The ODROID-M1S is Hardkernel's latest single-board computer and one it has designed to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The Hardkernel ODROID-M1S is available in four SKUs with up to 8 GB of RAM and supports various images, including Android 11 AOSP.

CheckMag Some people compare Windows on ARM with Windows RT, declaring its death. But such proclamations may be a tad early. Arguably, Windows on ARM is more alive now than it has ever been since the 2016 Qualcomm/Microsoft partnership announcement, as it is getting ready for a busy year 2024.

CheckMag Of the 10 ARM-powered laptops we tested in 2022 and 2023, just 1 comes with Windows on ARM - all the rest are Apple MacBooks. Apparently, laptop makers do not see much point in using ARM chips; worse still, software developers do not appear to be very interested in creating/maintaining dedicated ARM versions of their products, either.

The MacBook Pro 14 M3 is Apple's new base model in the Pro lineup starting at $1599, but there are some areas where the new laptop is worse compared to the previous MBP 14 with the M2 Pro. If you upgrade the M3 to 16 GB RAM, it is actually more expensive right now, so go ahead and buy the old one as long as you can.

The crowd of MediaTek Helio G99-driven rugged handsets receives a new member from IIIF150, namely the B2 Pro. This Android 13 device sports a 10,000 mAh battery, a main camera with 108 MP alongside a 24 MP night vision shooter, 12 GB LPDDR4X memory and 256 GB UFS 2.2 storage, as well as a generous 6.8-inch IPS display.

Four members of the Apple M3 series have landed on the PassMark benchmark site and have immediately secured the top four positions in the single-thread performance chart for laptop CPUs. The Apple M3, 11-core M3 Pro, 12-core M3 Pro, and 16-core M3 Max have sailed past Intel’s Raptor Lake mobile parts and AMD’s Zen 4 Dragon Range APUs.

Many years of updates, a bright OLED display, a thick battery, stereo speakers, an extensive camera setup, and much more: this is the Pixel 8 Pro. But behind many of the great features also hide some details that could be dealbreakers for some.

Ubuntu Touch is still an option for smartphone users wanting to exit the duopoly of Google's Android OS and Apple's iOS. The latest release of Ubuntu Touch, dubbed "20.04 OTA 3," is available today for select handsets, including the PinePhone.

Apple's choice of putting just 8GB of RAM in its entry-level products and even some 'Pro' products has always been met with severe criticism, and now, Apple's VP of worldwide marketing Bob Borchers' recent claims have made things even more controversial.

Apple's latest M3 Max, unveiled at the 'Scary Fast' Mac event, has garnered praise for its commendable performance improvements. However, early benchmark results reveal a less impressive picture for the M3 Pro, which showed only a modest 6% increase in performance over the previous-generation M2 Pro despite significant per-core improvements.

Apple has developed an outstanding smartphone, the iPhone 15 Pro while introducing a few new features. In this summary, we present our test results for your consideration.

While the 16 GB/1 TB model retails for US$1,624.72, the Apple MacBook Air M2 2023 variants with 8 GB and 256/512 GB are discounted by no less than US$250 each. After applying the discounts, the 256 GB model goes for US$1,049 while its 512 GB sibling carries the US$1,249 price tag.

Apple's latest M-Series Mac chips, including the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, have raised the bar for notebook performance yet again, with the M3 Max achieving remarkable results in recent Geekbench and GFXBench tests. The base M3 model showcases a performance increase of approximately 9% compared to its predecessor, the M2, in early GPU benchmark tests, although real-world performance remains to be seen.

Apple's M3 Max, the flagship of the M3 lineup, performed admirably in Geekbench 6's CPU benchmark, rivaling Mac Pro's CPU performance. Now, in recently revealed GFXBench GPU benchmarks, the M3 Max GPU surpasses its predecessor by 18% and competes well with the RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, further solidifying Apple Silicon's dominance in the laptop space.

Targeting the young audience, the Oscal Tiger 10 is a 6.56-inch Android 13 smartphone with a 50 MP main camera, Unisoc T606 processor, 8/256 GB memory/internal storage, and microSD support up to 1 TB. The color choices are blue, green, and grey. Between November 11 and 17, it will be available for US$83.99 (US$199.98 retail).

IoT and edge computing are two sectors that have seen rapid growth in the past few years, and Raspberry Pi is an important player, especially on the commercial side. Arm needs to consolidate its position and is now cementing its 15-year collaboration with Raspberry Pi.

A new report says that Samsung, Qualcomm and AMD have teamed up to bring FSR to mobile devices. The tech will be shown off alongside the Galaxy S24 series next year.

Preliminary performance benchmarks for Apple's M3 and M3 Max have recently surfaced online in Geekbench 6's database, and if the results hold true, the M3 Max packs a serious punch and manages to come astonishingly close to the much more expensive Mac Pro featuring the M2 Ultra.

The Moto G84 is Motorola's current top-of-the-range mid-range series, which achieved good marks in our test thanks to its bright OLED screen, flexible camera system and large amount of storage. We have summarized our findings for you.

We have recently tested the Apple iPhone 15 and find it to be yet another fantastic smartphone. Can, however, all of the advances be convincing? We summarize our findings.

Ice Universe has confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy will get an overclocked GPU. It will operate at roughly 100 MHz higher than the Adreno 750 found on the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

Libre Computer has introduced a brand-new single-board computer that will be part of its Cottonwood series: the Libre Computer Alta AML-A311D-CC. It’s a low-cost SBC that’s currently in the pre-order stage with a price tag of US$60.

Powered by the MediaTek Helio G99, the Blackview Tab 18 tablet comes with Android 13-based firmware, a generous 12-inch 2.4K display with WideVine L1 support, an 8,800 mAh battery with 33 W fast charging, and more. Its global launch will occur on November 11, when this slate is scheduled to hit AliExpress.

Just a day after its announcement, Apple's latest M3 SoC has found its way to Geekbench. According to the entry, the M3 seems to be up to 10% faster in single-core compared to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite 23 W reference design. However, multi-core performance takes a beating against both 23 W and 80 W X Elite reference scores. The M3 is also clocked 500 MHz faster than the M2 and is about 270 MHz faster than the A17 Pro.

The Chinese CPU maker recently launched the FTC870 model with Arm cores clocked at 3 GHz and the performance appears to be neck and neck with server CPUs such as the Arm Neoverse N2 and Intel's Xeon Platinum 8330, both of which are at least 2 years old.

Apple has presented its most powerful laptop processors to date in the M3 Pro and M3 Max, and the world's first 3 nm notebook SoCs at the same time. Buyers should be careful, however, because the RAM of some variants has been cut as Apple seeks to compare itself with Intel in order to show supposed efficiency gains.