Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has apparently begun production of its next iPhone System-on-Chip processor, the “A13,” prior to Apple’s anticipated iPhone refresh in September. Firms in the iPhone supply chain are expected to be working to produce components in preparation for assembly of the latest iPhone models at this time of year. According to an […]
Category: Processors
Intel this afternoon announced that the company would be exiting the 5G smartphone modem business, instead choosing to focus on opportunities for 4G and 5G modems in PCs, internet of things devices, and other data-centric devices. The announcement arrived only hours after Apple and Qualcomm reached a settlement and agreed to drop all current litigation […]
Even amongst the recent kerfuffle as to who Apple might be getting its 5G modems from, Chinese company Huawei, which develops its own processors and modems, has indicated that it might be interested in selling them to Apple. Huawei has developed a 5G Balong 5000 chipset, but, as with the company’s processors, it has previously […]
Apple chipmaker TSMC has apparently just hit a milestone, and is now able to produce 5 nanometer A-Series chips for the 2020 iPhones. The company offered the following statement: “TSMC has announced delivery of the complete version of its 5nm design infrastructure within the Open Innovation Platform (OIP). This full release enables 5nm systems-on-chip (SoC) […]
If you’re hankering for a speed boost from the new generation of Intel processors, 2019 might be the year for it. Geekbench has just released the test results of Intel’s 8th and 9th-generation Coffee Lake chips. All of the new 27-inch 5K models offer superior performance compared to their 2017 counterparts, with single-core performance up […]