Huawei and 3Dmark call cheating AI
All clear, if you use an on switch
The parent company of 3Dmark UL and Huawei made a statement about the delisting of the latter's phones and agreed to work with each other to solve the issue.
iPhone 6.1 inch has dual SIM
Most likely for China
Apple already confirmed its plans to have an iPhone event on September 12th and it will tell the market about its upcoming 2018 Intel only modem line up.
Samsung and Huawei didn’t show 5G at IFA
No 5G NR form factor devices yet
The IFA consumer trade show has just finished, and we wanted to share a bit about 5G with focus on the big silicon manufacturers. Both Samsung and Huawei didn’t show anything at the show, while both companies reassured us that they will have something later.
Huawei Kirin 970 phones delisted from 3Dmark
Consequences of clear cheating
We’ve seen this happening before in the discrete and mobile GPU world and it looks like Huawei was caught with its pants down cheating on graphics benchmarking. The result is that UL, owner of 3DMark has delisted Huawei P20 Pro, Huawei Nova 3 and Honor Play.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 slides camera
Slide the phone
Xiaomi is not leaving the competitors to ride the trends as it plans to launch its Mi MIX 3 camera sliding phones in October. The global spokesperson even showed the official picture and confirmed the October date.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 benchmark shows up
A significant step forward in Geekbench 4
The press usually relies too much on benchmarks but they at least tell you that a subject A is better or worse than subject B. The recently posted GeekBench of Snapdragon 855 shows that the new 7nm SoC from Qualcomm scores much better than its predecessor.
Xiaomi teases Mix phone with 5G
Ready for 2019
Global spokesperson, Director of Product Management at XIaomi, Donovan Sung, has shared on his twitter a Xiaomi Mix looking-phone connected to a 5G test network.
Phone trends in 2019 5G, drop notch or slide
Analysis: The key to success
There will be three trends that will play an important role in most phones scheduled to roll out in 2019. They will play the 5G card, use either drop notch or have a full view screen with s sliding cameras. This summary comes up from hundreds of meetings and talks we've had in the last few months with multiple companies, industry insiders and OEMs.
Intel Whiskey and Amber Lake show up in notebooks
14nm with better battery and connectivity
Intel has officially introduced 8th generation Whiskey Lake U-series and codename Amber Lake Y-series parts, and some of the notebooks have already started to show up at the IFA 2018 show in Berlin.
Jim Anderson, SVP and GM, leaves AMD
Becomes a CEO of Lattice Semiconductor
The man who played a key role in Ryzen and Threadripper 1 and 2 comeback, Jim Anderson a general manager at AMD, has left to become the CEO of Lattice Semiconductor, a FPGA maker.