I love miniature gaming PCs, and Intel may have just trumped them all here at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. This is the Intel Hades Canyon NUC, a VR-ready gaming rig that’s just 1.2 liters in volume. It’s small enough to fit into a messenger bag, or even a very large purse — and yet …
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Get ready for smaller, longer-lasting wireless earbuds, thanks to a new Bluetooth processor from Qualcomm. The mobile chip giant on Monday unveiled a low-power Bluetooth processor, the QCC5100, at its CES 2018 press conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. The chip integrates into one package the Bluetooth tech that connects to other devices, the application processor that …
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In fall 2017, chipmaking rivals Intel and AMD made a splash when they announced a low(er)-power processor combining Intel’s eighth-generation series of Core i H-series CPUs with AMD Radeon RX Vega M discrete graphics. They didn’t offer much in the way of details at the time, and at CES 2018 Intel followed up with specifics and more. The new “G” …
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With its newest ThinkPad X, T and L series business laptops and two-in-ones, Lenovo is doing a little extra to keep peepers and creepers from getting at you and your data. Along with match-on-sensor touch fingerprint readers and IR cameras for facial recognition to make sign-ins easy while keeping your system secure, Lenovo has added physical webcam covers to the …
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Earlier this year, my mom needed a new phone. Her iPhone 6 started running slowly, and the battery drained quickly. Instead of purchasing a new phone — she couldn’t decide which to get — she had a new battery installed to buy herself some time. I thought she was crazy to not just get a new iPhone. Turns out, she …
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If you think your older iPhone seems to run more slowly, you’re not crazy. Apple on Wednesday said a software feature released last year makes your phone operate more slowly to offset problems with its aging lithium ion battery. As batteries get older, they don’t hold their charges as well as newer batteries, and can have worse problems when the …
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Your next Android smartphone is about to get a lot smarter. Qualcomm on Wednesday detailed its upcoming Snapdragon 845 processor, which will likely power most high-end Android phones launching in 2018. The chip boasts improved image- and video-capture abilities, smarter artificial intelligence features, “lightning-fast connectivity,” “vault-like security,” and better performance and power efficiency. In other words, the rumored Galaxy S9 could …
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Qualcomm’s next mobile chip isn’t available yet, but it already has a big-name customer: Xiaomi. Lei Jun, CEO of the Chinese phone maker, joined Cristiano Amon, the head of Qualcomm’s chip business, at the chip maker’s tech summit Tuesday to talk about the importance of their partnership. Jun said the next premium smartphone from Xiaomi, currently in development, will run …
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Apple may be getting into semiconductors in an even bigger way. The company may make its own iPhone power management chips as soon as 2018, according to a report from Nikkei. Currently, Apple relies on supplier Dialog Semiconductor for those processors, which are important for making sure an iPhone charges correctly and doesn’t consume too much energy. One of Nikkei’s …
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Apple and Qualcomm probably won’t be wishing each other a happy holiday. The battle between the two tech heavyweights rose another notch as Apple filed a countersuit against Qualcomm, alleging that the chipmaker is using some of Apple’s technology in its line of processors that power rival smartphones. The legal spat comes down to an argument about battery life. In …
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