The Super Mario watch. [credit: TAG Heuer ] The unlikely combination of TAG Heuer and Nintendo has announced the ” TAG Heuer Connected ✕ Super Mario Limited Edition ” smartwatch. Like previous TAG Heuer Connected watches, this is an extremely expensive ($2, 150) Wear OS smartwatch with extremely dated internals. You’ll mostly be paying for the […]
Enlarge / Qualcomm’s QTM525 5G mmWave antenna module and Snapdragon X55 5G modem. (credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple’s M1 —mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple’s highly publicized breakthrough. Amon told Reuters in […]
Speeds and feeds for the three new CPU designs. [credit: Arm ] Arm has announced its next-generation CPU designs, which will probably hit the market in early 2022. With all-new cores, a new architecture, and the death of 32 bit, they are proving to be among Arm’s biggest releases in some time. I don’t think […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Makers of high-end Android devices are responding to the discovery of a Qualcomm chip flaw that researchers say could be exploited to partially backdoor about a third of the world’s smartphones. The vulnerability, discovered by researchers from security firm Check Point Research, resides in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem, a system of […]
Enlarge / Significantly faster mid-range Android phones and tablets are on the way starting in Q2 2021. (credit: Qualcomm) On Thursday, Qualcomm announced its newest midrange mobile processor—the Snapdragon 780G, a 5nm part that succeeds last year’s 765. The Snapdragon 700 series is a midrange line that offers similar features to the flagship Snapdragon 800 […]
Enlarge / The new fabrication plants will likely be somewhere near the company’s existing campus in Chandler, Arizona. (credit: Laura Segall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger—a former chip designer who took the top slot from finance specialist Bob Swan this February—announced plans to expand Intel’s manufacturing muscle this week. Gelsinger wants to spend […]
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Enlarge / The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, side by side. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has posted multiple job listings indicating that it is hiring engineers to work on 6G technology internally so it does not have to rely on partners like Qualcomm as the next generation of wireless technology hits several years down the […]
Enlarge / Some current Arm licensees view the proposed acquisition as highly toxic. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Nvidia) In September 2020, Nvidia announced its intention to buy Arm, the license holder for the CPU technology that powers the vast majority of mobile and high-powered embedded systems around the world. Nvidia’s proposed deal would acquire Arm from Japanese conglomerate […]