On the other hand, waiting for Qualcomm and Mediatek is fraught with peril. For some reason, Qualcomm does not seem to be sounding alarm bells internally about its growing performance gap against Apple, nor the narrowing gap with Mediatek. Mediatek has made a lot of gains but still lags in some critical areas, like AIweiterlesen

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together, “SoftBank”) in a transaction valued at $40 billion. Nvidia Newsroom ARM verspricht sein kundenneutrales Lizenzmodelle auch unter der Führung von Nvidia fortzuführen. Nvidia holt sich damit ein (gut) laufendesweiterlesen

Those chips have some faster components and more of them, so you may think those chips perform better than Apple’s. But the reality is that we hardly use the entire capacity of the chips that come in our mobile devices. One or two high-performance cores are enough for most of what we throw at ourweiterlesen

Apple und Intel haben eine Vereinbarung unterzeichnet, dass Apple die Mehrheit des Smartphone-Modemgeschäfts von Intel übernehmen wird. Etwa 2.200 Intel-Mitarbeiter werden zusammen mit geistigem Eigentum, Ausstattung und Verträgen zu Apple wechseln. Die Transaktion im Wert von 1 Milliarde US-Dollar wird voraussichtlich im vierten Quartal 2019 abgeschlossen, vorbehaltlich der Zustimmung durch die Aufsichtsbehörden sowie weiteren Bedingungen,weiterlesen

Peter Kafka: I get a press release from you guys every couple of weeks saying, “Coming to Minneapolis.” Name your city. How far before this stuff [5G] is actually ubiquitous and I have a good chance of getting it in any major metropolitan area? Randall Stephenson: Ubiquity will be, I mean true ubiquity, let’s call itweiterlesen

“Dialog has deep expertise in chip development, and we are thrilled to have this talented group of engineers who’ve long supported our products now working directly for Apple,” said Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. “Our relationship with Dialog goes all the way back to the early iPhones, and we look forwardweiterlesen

When it became clear iPhone and future products would require custom silicon, the story goes Steve Jobs set out to find the best chip designers in the world. Im zehnten iPhone-Jahr ist Apple in puncto ‚Single Core‘-CPU-Performance mindestens ein Jahr der Konkurrenz voraus. Im ‚Multi-Core‘-Vergleich liegen sie mit dem iPhone 7 (Plus) gleich auf. Dochweiterlesen