Dimensity 9300+ is the latest flagship chipset from MediaTek and it brings higher clock speeds alongside improved APU compared to the Dimensity 9300. The all-big core CPU now features a prime Cortex-X4 core clocked at up to 3.4GHz compared to the 3.25Ghz on the Dimensity 9300. The new chip is fabbed on TSMC’s third-generation 4nm+ process node just like its predecessor and features the same Arm Immortalis-G720 GPU with raytracing. The updated APU 790 promises a 10% performance boost in AI tasks and features MediaTek’s new NeuroPilot Speculative Decode Acceleration technology. Dimensity...
Apple's getting ready to overuse the AI buzzword just like everyone else has been doing for a while, and the big AI push is also coming this year to Safari, the company's web browser, according to a new report. The next version of Safari will be AI-infused, and it's expected to launch alongside iOS 18, which means it will most likely be presented at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Safari will get Intelligent Search, which will leverage on-device AI to identify topics and key phrases within a web page you're looking at in order to summarize its contents for you....
We heard rumors that a new vivo X100s will be unveiled in May and that it will arrive with a Dimensity 9300+ at the helm. No specific date was given, but we now have a good candidate – MediaTek officially announced that the 9300+ will be unveiled on May 7 (Tuesday next week). There’s no mention of vivo, so the chipset may come ahead of the phone. What the company does mention is the AI functionality that will be a highlight of the new chipset – the theme of the conference is “AI for Everything”. Earlier today there was a huge leak showing the changes from the original Dimensity 9300 to...
Back in January, Samsung announced the Google-developed Circle to Search AI feature for its Galaxy S24 series before Google unveiled the it for its Pixels, signifying a strong partnership between the two companies in the AI space. In case you've been wondering whether there's more AI stuff to come from these two companies in the future, the answer is a resounding yes. Google and Samsung are working together on developing new AI features for their respective smartphones running Android, as can be seen from posts on X shared by both the official Samsung Mobile account, as well as Rick...
Back in February, Motorola posted an F1-themed teaser for the Moto X50 Ultra and specifically its AI functionality. The phone still hasn’t been unveiled, but a version of it has – the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra. It’s not clear that these two devices will be the same, though the latest teaser (also with a Formula 1 car) shows the exact same design. Moto X50 Ultra coming soon The Edge 50 Ultra already comes with some AI functionality, e.g. a generative model for custom wallpapers and a system that adjusts the camera settings based on the scene. By the looks of it, the X50 Ultra will...
A couple of years ago, Samsung announced 8.5Gbps LPDDR5X RAM that at the time was the fastest in the world. Technology progress marches on and today the company unveiled an even faster LPDDR5X. It runs at 10.7Gbps, surpassing the 9.6Gbps LPDDR5T variant that was introduced by SK Hynix last year. This represents a 25% increase in performance over the previous X variants, but speed isn’t the only upgrade. Samsung is building these chips on a 12nm class process, which means that the chips are smaller. This allowed the company to increase capacity by 30% and is now building 32GB packages...
AI chatbots are slowly but surely infiltrating every app we use, and the latest one is WhatsApp. Meta is now testing the addition of the Meta AI chatbot to the messaging service, a test that's currently going on inside the latest version of the app for both iOS and Android. Right now, the test is only available to those who have English set as their WhatsApp language. It's a limited test, however, which means not everyone that's eligible can see the Meta AI chatbot in WhatsApp yet. So far, it's gone live in select countries including India, but only to a limited number of people. This will...
Apple is currently hard at work on the next generation of its in-house developed chips, the M4 - expected to come in three main varieties. The M4 chips will power upcoming Macs - in fact, Apple wants to overhaul the entire Mac line with the M4 family of chips. The M4 will be designed to "highlight artificial intelligence", according to a new report from Bloomberg today, penned by the usually very reliable about all things Apple Mark Gurman. Mac sales fell 27% in the last fiscal year, which ended last September, after having peaked all the way back in 2022. Even the holiday season...
Today Google has announced that the AI-powered tools inside Google Photos will be available to anyone using the app, without any subscription required. We are talking about Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait light. This will happen from May 15, which, coincidentally or not, is the day after Google's annual developer conference. As always, expect the rollout to take a few weeks after that date, since that's the way Google likes to do things. The three aforementioned features will also be available on "more devices, including Pixel tablets", Google revealed. Last year, Google...
Intel kicked off its Vision 2024 conference with the unveiling of the Gaudi 3 AI processing chip. Gaudi 3 is designed to accelerate AI workloads at an enterprise level, and Intel reckons it's faster than the current industry benchmark - Nvidia's H100 GPU. Gaudi 3 uses the same architecture and underlying principles as Gaudi 2, but it uses TSMC's 5nm process (compared to TSMC's 7nm in Gaudi 2), making it more efficient. Gaudi 3 has up to 128GB of HBM2e with 3.7 TB/s of bandwidth and 900W TDP. Intel showed benchmarks comparing Gaudi 3 to market leader Nvidia and its dominating H100...