Apple loses top chipman
John Bruno moves to Google
ATI and later AMD started the great trend of letting journalists talk to actual engineers. Nvidia followed, and soon I had the chance to meet John Bruno, who this week is leaving Apple to shift to Google.
Broadcom buying Qualcomm just won’t happen
Fudzilla asked around
Over the last few weeks we've met with a few dozen Qualcomm and industry C level executives and of course discussed the potential Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm. The general conclusion is that this won't happen as Broadcom might profit from it at the big expense of Qualcomm.
AMD Linux driver GPU is not Navi
Way too early for that
Sorry to disappoint AMD fans but the new_chip.gfx10.mmSUPER_SECRET.enable [0: 0] is not Navi, as that is unlikely to show in 2018.
High end phones in 2019 will be 5G NR
Most of them
We are wrapping up an exciting 2017 and we are about to kick start 2018 with a high speed CES in early January. But what about 2019? According to well-placed industry sources, most phones launching in 2019 will be able to support 5G NR.
Nvidia will have two big GPUs in 2018
Ampere and the gaming GPU
There have been many reports that Nvidia’s next generation technology will be codenamed Ampere and we want to set one thing straight. The successor of Volta is an AI/ML chip and not a GPU - just like Volta never was.
Xiaomi is working on Snapdragon on Windows 10
Another big win
Fudzilla exclusively brought you the news that Samsung is one of the companies working on a very sexy Snapdragon on Windows 10 and our sources have confirmed that Xiaomi is also part of the early supporter group.
Apple iMac Pro maxed up is €16,156.98
To Photoshop girls in 2018 for $13,177.98
An Apple iMac Pro with Vega graphics and 10 core Xeon CPU starts at $4,999 and if you grab one of these default settings, you will get it within a week or two. The maxed-out option costs more than double that in the US and close to three times the start sum in Europe.
Snapdragon 845 arriving for Windows later in 2018
As confirmed by Cristiano
A few less experienced journalists asked why Qualcomm decided to launch its first Windows 10 on Snapdragon 835 as the new, faster Snapdragon 845 dawns.
Samsung is working on Windows 10 on Snapdragon
Thinner and lighter
Qualcomm executives have told Fudzilla that Asus, Lenovo, and HP won’t be alone in their efforts launching the Windows 10 on Snapdragon, and that certain phone manufacturers are working on their designs.
Adreno 630 runs console like game at 1080
Lineage 2 Revolution does not throttle
We had a chance to see a Snapdragon 845 prototype phone factor design running Lineage 2 revolution 1080p 60 FPS, in so-called console like gaming.