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MediaTek could release a new Dimensity 9400+ chip as early as March this year, according to insider Digital Chat Station. According to him, the processor of the new chip will be overclocked and devices using this chip will appear on the market soon after that.
TSMC has officially started mass production of 4nm chips at its Fab 21 fab in Arizona, USA. This is a major milestone for the US semiconductor industry.
Last October, Qualcomm unveiled its latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Now the specs of another version of this processor, the Snapdragon 8s Elite, which has the model number SM8735, have been revealed.
Xiaomi recently unveiled the Redmi Turbo 4 smartphone in China, which is also rumoured to make its global debut as the POCO X7 Pro next week. The Turbo 4 is powered by MediaTek's new Dimensity 8400 chipset, which will compete with upcoming mid-range chips from Qualcomm such as the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 4. The Dimensity 8400 has been tested in several benchmarks and has shown the kind of performance we should expect from it.
According to the latest rumours from whistleblower DCS, Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 and MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 processors could equal Apple's M4 chip in terms of single-core performance. This will be made possible by ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) technology and TSMC's improved 3nm N3P process.
According to the latest leaks, MediaTek is already working on a new flagship Dimensity 9500 processor, which is rumoured to get a significant performance boost.
According to the latest rumours, MediaTek has started working on a new Dimensity 9500 chipset that will use a cluster of cores similar to the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.
MediaTek has announced a new Dimensity 8400 processor, which is the first in its class with an all-big-core architecture. The same architecture is used in the new flagship chip Dimensity 9400.
Qualcomm has successfully defended itself in a lawsuit against Arm Holdings for breach of licence agreement. The dispute arose after Qualcomm acquired startup Nuvia for $1.4bn in 2021.
Intel Core Ultra 200S processors have seen significant performance improvements thanks to recent optimisations. During a media briefing, Intel China presented test results showing the improvements following the updates.
The new AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 "Krackan" processor based on the Zen 5 architecture has been tested in the PassMark benchmark, showing decent results.
Arm has sued Qualcomm, claiming that its acquisition of startup Nuvia in 2021 violates licence agreements.
Samsung is planning to bring back its Exynos chips to the Galaxy S26 series. While the Galaxy S25 series is likely to use only Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chips due to production issues with the Exynos 2500, the company intends to rectify the situation with the release of the Galaxy S26.
AMD is preparing to unveil its new Strix Halo series of chips at CES 2025. The new Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 hybrid processor showed impressive results in benchmark tests.
