The Hot Take: Out of left field Samsung comes out with Exynos 2700 to best Qualcomm? Interesting.
Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm's next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive early next year.
This time, the tests were allegedly run against the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Exynos 2700 reportedly scored around 13,000 points in the Geekbench 6.5âŚ
The Hot Take: Race to the ST champion on next architecture has begun.
AMD's Zen 6 processors are out! Well, the EPYC 9006 family of server CPUs is out, anyway. These aren't chips that mere mortals like you and I can reasonably acquire, so there aren't really many third-party benchmarks out there yet, but somebody ran GeekBench 7 on one, and you know what that means: time for some wild speculation, such as the supposed 15% single-threaded IPC increase you might have seen reported this week. However, it isn't quite that clear yet. Well-known enthusiast and occasional leaker HXL (@9550pro) spotted the EPYC 9996âŚ
New details surrounding the Exynos 2700 talk about the chipsetâs internal tests allegedly outperforming the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in both CPU and GPU workloads. The latest claim paints Qualcommâs top-end SoC in a negative light, indicating that its transition to TSMCâs 2nm node and Offset PoP packaging didnât help matters. However, weâve noticed a trend on foreign outlets where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6âs capabilities are being downplayed, likely to hype up the Exynos 2700. While this is a decent strategy when discussingâŚ
The Hot Take: One of the reasons I stay away from foldable devices.
Some iPhone Duos are already experiencing hinge issues that cause display cracks, based on photos shared on Reddit and the MacRumors forums. Almost all of the display faults are right along the hinge, and most result in a line of bright pixels across one side of the screen.
An iPhone Duo owner in Australia said his device cracked after being opened fewer than 20 times, and there was no visible damage beforehand.
Had my iPhone Duo for about six hours and had probably opened it fewer than 20 times. I was showing it to aâŚ
The Hot Take: Intel roaring back to a manufacturing powerhouse.
Intel is accelerating work on its long-delayed US semiconductor manufacturing projects, with equipment installation underway at its Fab 62 facility in Arizona and construction progressing at its Ohio site. The developments come as stronger demand for AI data center processors supports the chipmaker's efforts to expand capacity and strengthen its foundry business.
The Hot Take: I guess we'll see if this pans out, question is does Ai/Si start helping write code for these chips.
Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each logical qubit, the better the chances are of identifying errors. But, given that the hardware qubits are prone to errors, adding more of them also increases the probability that errors will occur. If the hardware error rate is too high, then growing the logical qubitâŚ
AMD's first Arm-based CPUs in over a decade, codenamed Soundwave, are heading to Surface laptops from Microsoft. AMD Soundwave APUs To Bring Arm's Competitive Value To Surface Laptops As Apple's Pressure Mounts on Microsoft The AMD Soundwave SoCs were first spotted back in 2024, when they were listed as a next-generation 3nm APU design. Few details were known back then, but a year later, we learned about Soundwave being AMD's attempt at the Arm ecosystem. Initially primed for a 2026 launch for Microsoft's 2026 Surface lineup, the plans changedâŚ
The Hot Take: Doubling the CPUs in the rack yes will be better performance per watt, but is also stacking it against the competition. If you focus on CORE vs CORE, AMD and CISC/x86 still beats it in my eyes.
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice AMDâs EPYC Turin performance per rack, thanks to its higher server density.
Research outfit Signal65 tested early Arm systems against AMDâs Zen 5-based EPYC 9755 across seven workloads. Arm commissioned the study, and it seems reasonably pleased with its purchase.
The headline result is an average of 1.99 times the modelled performance per rack, with individual results ranging from 1.43 to 3.19 times AMDâs performance. That distinction between measured processor results and modelled racksâŚ
The Hot Take: Well when they take over TSMC yeah, no doubt.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan believes that China is not significantly behind the US when it comes to chip manufacturing prowess. The CEO made the remarks in an interview with Nikkei Asia, where he also discussed Intel's restructuring efforts and attempts to establish a foundry business that is on par with Taiwan's TSMC, which is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer. Intel CEO Tan Asserts Foundry Business Can Become A Growth Driver But Stresses Patience To Do It Right China's relationship with the US when it comes to chip manufacturingâŚ
While we see multiple reports indicating the discontinuation of the flagship Blackwell GeForce GPU, NVIDIA, on the other hand, denies such reports. NVIDIA's Jeff Fisher Says RTX 5090 isn't Discontinued After Acknowledging Supply Constraints Multiple Taiwanese publications have reported NVIDIA's refutation of reports that the RTX 5090 is being discontinued. If you have been following us, you must be aware that a few days ago, there were reports suggesting NVIDIA has ended the supply of the GeForce RTX 5090, the flagship Blackwell GeForce GPU,âŚ