It was recently reported that Samsung is planning to use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset for all Galaxy S25 series devices. However, a new leak suggests that the Galaxy S25 may still use its own Exynos 2500 chipset.
AMD plans to introduce a new Z2 Extreme console chip in early 2025, which will be the successor to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme used in Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go devices. The announcement was made by Jack Huynh, AMD's head of computing and graphics technologies, at IFA in Berlin. An AMD spokesperson confirmed that the company is working with several partners and the chip is likely already in the hands of portable device makers.
Intel has announced a new series of Core Ultra 200V processors, Lunar Lake generation. These processors promise improved performance and longer battery life. Intel also plans to use the Core Ultra 200V for artificial intelligence features, including Microsoft's Copilot+PC platform, which will be launched later this year.
TSMC, the world's leading chip maker, plans to start mass production of chips using A16 Angstrom (1.6nm) technology in 2026. This will be a year earlier than Intel and Samsung, which will start producing their 1.4nm chips in 2027. Notably, TSMC will not need to use ASML's expensive ASML lithography machines for this process, each costing $380 million.
Samsung may be planning to use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor in its upcoming Galaxy S25 flagship smartphones and this processor will account for about 20 per cent of the total cost of the device due to the price hike. Samsung Exynos 2500 may be cheaper, but it will only be available by summer 2025 in the Galaxy Fold 7 and Flip 7.
Qualcomm quietly announced a new mid-range Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset on its website over the weekend. This chipset replaces the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, as the Gen 2 version was not released.
MediaTek is gearing up to release its new flagship Dimensity 9400 processor in mid-October. This chip promises significant performance improvements, especially in the area of ray tracing, which insiders say will be PC-level.
Xiaomi plans to release its own 5G chipset in the first half of 2025. This chipset is being developed in collaboration with Unisoc and will be manufactured using TSMC's 4nm N4P process.
As we get closer to the October launch of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, new details about this flagship processor are emerging. This time, some details about the processor's video core have come to light.
AMD has announced that the upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 update will significantly improve the performance of the new Zen 5 processors. The recently released Ryzen 9000 series of processors failed to meet performance expectations in most tests. Following rumours that it could be a bug in Windows, AMD has confirmed that the branch prediction code specific to their processors will be optimised in the new version of Windows. The update is expected to be released next month.
Qualcomm is preparing to unveil its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip at the Snapdragon Summit event in October. According to the latest leaks, the new processor will focus on efficiency and artificial intelligence rather than pure power.
Google's attempts to develop its own processor have once again been criticised due to temperature and performance stability issues. Preliminary tests indicate that the Tensor G4 processor in the Pixel 9 Pro XL is particularly susceptible to these shortcomings.
AMD has begun releasing updates to address the Sinkclose vulnerability discovered by researchers at IOActive. The vulnerability affects most AMD processors released since 2006.
AMD has announced prices for its new Ryzen 9000 line of desktop processors, which are lower than the launch prices of the previous generation of Ryzen processors.
The company hopes to be out of the crisis by 2027
