Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing
There's support for dual 5G SIMs, WiFi 7 and 200-megapixel cameras.
Chip
Hitting the Books: Steve Jobs' iPhone obsession led to Apple's silicon revolution
Many of the chips "Designed by Apple in California" are now manufactured exclusively in Taiwan.
Biden administration reveals details of its $50 billion chip investment plan
Over half of the funding will go toward advanced chip manufacturing.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
Samsung is investing $356 billion in chips, biotech and AI
It expects to hire 80,000 more employees by 2026.
Chromebooks are finally getting AMD Ryzen 5000 C-series CPUs
Acer and HP are among the first manufacturers to use the chips.
Intel plans to build a $19 billion chip plant in Germany
It'll invest up to $88 billion in Europe over the next decade.
ARM will reportedly lay off up to 1,000 employees after NVIDIA sale falls through
The job cuts will affect employees in the US and the UK.
Samsung will build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas
It'll boost semiconductor production in the US.
Engadget Podcast: Digging into Google Tensor and the Pixel 6
Plus some updates from the ongoing Activision Blizzard case.
Smart home networking standard Project CHIP rebrands as 'Matter'
The first Matter-branded devices will go on sale before the end of 2021.
Samsung's Exynos 1080 is its first five-nanometer chip
The chip will debut in a Vivo phone at some point in the future.
Qualcomm's latest smartwatch chips support 16-megapixel cameras
The Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ are faster and weirder than ever.
MIT fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
The ‘brain-on-a-chip’ hardware could lead to tiny, portable AI devices.
The USA's latest trade legislation is more bad news for Huawei phones
The company just lost its main chip provider.
Light-emitting silicon overcomes a major obstacle to denser, faster chips
It's a solution 50 years in the making.
Samsung's latest storage chip will make flagship smartphones faster
Transfer 100GB of data in under 90 seconds.
Intel’s neuromorphic chip learns to ‘smell’ 10 hazardous chemicals
It could help ‘electronic noses’ detect weapons, narcotics and disease.
Stanford researchers manage to put a particle accelerator on a silicon chip
Their prototype uses infrared light, rather than microwave radiation.
Samsung says its new flagship processor is 20 percent faster
The Exynos 990 will probably debut in the Galaxy S11.
OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensor
The ultra small device is cost effective and more comfortable for patients.
