Your next CPU could be the biggest AI upgrade in years, here’s why
Robert Triggs / Android Authority AI is fast approaching a fork in the road. The spiraling cost of memory for both personal and cloud platforms, rising compute costs for training…
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15″ mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more (PCMag)
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OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
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Nothing Phone 3 leak sheds light on SoC, camera, and battery specs
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has already confirmed plans to launch its first true flagship phone, the Nothing Phone 3, later this year. A new leak has…
This Android OEM could let you easily overclock your phone
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Strings found in MIUI firmware suggest Xiaomi is developing a ‘Chip performance dashboard’ feature. This dashboard would allow users to adjust CPU and GPU…
Samsung’s new 3nm SoC could give the Galaxy Watch 7 a performance boost
TL;DR Samsung has officially unveiled the Exynos W1000 chip for wearables. Built on a 3nm process, the SoC brings several improvements over the Exynos W930. Leaks suggest that the upcoming…
Why your next laptop will have an NPU, just like your phone
Robert Triggs / Android Authority If you’ve been weighing up a new laptop purchase, you’ll have no doubt spotted that they’re increasingly boasting NPU capabilities that sound an awful lot…
Xiaomi launches Xiaomi 14 Civi with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC
TL;DR Xiaomi is launching the Xiaomi 14 Civi in India, which is a rebrand of the Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro that was launched in China. This affordable flagship balances flagship…
Deep dive into Arm’s new Cortex-G925 and Immortalis-G952 for mobile
Mobile chipset development continues to advance at a brisk pace, bringing us superior gaming performance, accelerating the latest AI features, and more power-efficient PCs. Arm, one of the companies charting…