Apple Apple A18 chip – Android Authority
TL;DR Apple introduces the A18 and A18 Pro chips, powering the iPhone 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, and 16 Pro Max. Both chips share a lot in common with last…
Apple announces its new A18 iPhone chip
To nobody’s surprise, Apple today debuted its A18 system-on-a-chip, the successor to the A17 Pro chip it announced at its last iPhone event. If you recall, at that time, Apple…
Intel’s next big chip won’t be ‘Intel Inside,’ either
Intel previously said that the upcoming Core Ultra chip, Lunar Lake, won’t be manufactured internally. The company is now saying the same for its next-gen desktop chip, Arrow Lake, as…
Qualcomm’s cheaper Snapdragon X Plus chip aims at $700 laptops
Qualcomm launched a pair of 8-core variants of the Snapdragon X Plus Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin, expanding the reach of Windows on Arm products into what Qualcomm…
BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors
India, despite being home to 20% of the world’s chip designers, lacks a significant presence in the global semiconductor market. However, in recent months, the Indian government has begun investing…
This leaked chip could power cheaper Snapdragon PCs
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm will soon launch a Snapdragon processor aimed at less expensive Windows PCs, according to a major leak. The new chipset is apparently a…
Meet xMEMS, a challenger to AirJet’s radical solid-state chip cooling
If you had any doubts about silicon cooling chips being the wave of the future, this should help convince you: Now there are two companies operating in that space. xMEMS…
The Pixel 9 chip isn’t for benchmark obsessives, and we’re not surprised
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR A Google executive has claimed that the Pixel 9’s Tensor G4 chip isn’t designed for benchmarks and speed. Instead, the new smartphone processor is…
The next Mac upgrade may feature more than just an M4 chip
Apple first revealed its M4 chip when it launched the iPad Pro (2024) earlier this year. Logically, the company plans to bring its latest processor to the Mac line, which…
AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in a new funding round led by Blackrock.…