Intel has been struggling to keep up as its biggest rivals, Samsung and TSMC, erased its once-formidable manufacturing lead. But the chipmaker has a new 3D trick up its sleeve. At an event to tout its processor architecture plans, the company announced it’s perfected a manufacturing technology it calls Foveros to stack different chip elements …
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5G phones and networks are almost here, promising amazing feats like downloading entire TV seasons in minutes, and enabling cities full of driverless cars that talk to each other in real time. But the reality is that early 5G phones and networks won’t transform the way we use our phones and other devices overnight. Your carrier’s 5G service will roll out …
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OnePlus isn’t making a 5G phone for the money, the company told CNET in an interview last week. Instead, its first phone to access blazing 5G network speeds is part of the cult brand’s strategy to get a foot in the door as 5G develops over the next few years. OnePlus wants to be ready, alongside heavy-hitters like Samsung and …
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The world’s largest mobile chipmaker is using 5G phones to go after Apple’s iPhones and Intel — hard. That was clear after Qualcomm’s tech summit in Hawaii last week where one after the other, executives compared the speed and battery gains of Qualcomm’s processors that will power 5G and 4G phones and laptops to Intel and Apple’s competing models. The potshots came fast and …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Apple facing a potential ban in China, thanks to Qualcomm. Qualcomm throwing shade at Apple and Intel during its Snapdragon Tech Summit. How the EU is clamping down on Silicon Valley with more regulation. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News …
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The iPhone may have hit a roadblock in China as Apple continues its legal fight with Qualcomm. A Chinese court has ordered that four of Apple’s Chinese subsidiaries must immediately stop the “importation, sale and offers for sale in China of the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X,” …
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Premium budget. I’m not sure how I feel about that term, but it feels appropriate here. When I heard Amazfit was making a new watch called the Verge, I was definitely curious. Amazfit, a brand of the Chinese wearables company Huami, already has several fitness trackers and watches that are popular on Amazon. One is the Amazfit Bip, which looks …
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The White House held a roundtable “listening session” on innovation with top tech executives on Thursday, part of the Trump Administration efforts to ensure US leadership in emerging fields, such as artificial intelligence, 5G wireless and quantum computing. Executives who participated include Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Oracle’s Safra Catz, Qualcomm’s Steve Mollenkopf, IBM’s Ginni Rometty and others, according …
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It seems like a perfect marriage. OnePlus has announced it’ll launch its 5G phone in the first half of 2019. Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. But fresh evidence that OnePlus’ 5G phone won’t land on Verizon’s network came to light this week at Qualcomm’s annual tech summit held in Maui, HI. OnePlus has already cozied up to Verizon with the OnePlus …
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Mozilla is building a version of its Firefox web browser for Windows 10 personal computers using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, a move that boosts the chipmaker’s efforts to challenge Intel’s dominance. Most PCs these days use Intel’s x86 family of processors, though a small fraction come with AMD chips that can run the same software. But Qualcomm, smelling blood in the …
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