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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Plus processor, which is a more affordable version of the flagship Snapdragon X Elite chip, has been revealed in the Geekbench ML listing. This new chip is expected to ship for mid-range devices.
In 2022, TSMC announced that its 2nm fabrication process, known as N2, was ready for mass production in 2025. Immediately after that, reports emerged that the chipset in Apple's iPhone 17 Pro would be the first to use TSMC's 2nm fabrication process.
Qualcomm is gearing up for the unveiling of its Snapdragon X laptop processors and in its X social network account, it has revealed the date of its product launch with some hints.
Samsung has a new Exynos 2500 chipset in development, which is expected to be used in the Galaxy S25 series of smartphones. According to @PandaFlashPro, the Exynos 2500 will be more efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, thanks to Samsung Foundry's second-generation 3-nanometre process technology.
Apple is reportedly planning to use TSMC's latest N2 manufacturing technology to create its A19 Pro mobile chips based on the 2nm process. This will give Apple a big advantage over its competitors as TSMC reports that the N2 process offers up to 30 per cent reduction in power consumption.
According to recent rumours, MediaTek is preparing to release its new flagship Dimensity 9400 SoC processor, which could contain more than 30 billion transistors. This number is impressive considering that Apple's A13 Bionic processor used in the iPhone 11 contains 8.5 billion transistors and the A17 Pro processor used in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max contains 19 billion transistors.
Samsung, looking to boost revenues and profits from its semiconductor division after several years of decline, has received an important order from NVIDIA to produce AI chips.
Qualcomm, a leading microchip maker, is internally testing at least two versions of the new Snapdragon X Plus chip.
GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards are the most popular so far
China has introduced new rules banning the use of Intel and AMD processors in government computers and servers. This also applies to Microsoft Windows and foreign databases.
Haitong International Tech Research analyst Jeff Pu wrote a note to Haitong clients that has made its way to 9to5Mac. The note says that Apple is planning changes to the A18 Pro chip, specifically for artificial intelligence on the iPhone 16 Pro line of devices. Pu also writes that Apple is starting production of the A18 Pro chip earlier than usual.
Recently we wrote that Samsung might be equipping most of its smartphones with its own Exynos chips. Rumours on this topic continue to appear and now another insider has reported that this is likely to be the case.
Intel is bringing us back to the era of the megahertz race with its new flagship desktop processor, the Core i9-14900KS, which can reach speeds of 6.2GHz right out of the box. That's a slight increase over the previous generation i9-13900KS and i9-14900K, which maxed out at 6.0GHz.
Qualcomm is preparing to launch its new flagship mobile chipset, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, at the upcoming Snapdragon Summit in October. According to South Korean news outlet Ajunews, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could be one of the first mobile SoCs to support LPDDR6 memory. While Apple's A18 Pro chipset is rumoured to use LPDDR5T memory.
