Qualcomm has achieved "complete victory" in its licensing dispute with Arm, which started back in 2022 when Arm filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm over a breach of contract related to Arm's acquisition of Nuvia and its use of Nuvia technology in the design of its custom Phoenix cores. Like all court spats, this one took very long to conclude, but it now has in its entirety. A US District Court judge in the District of Delaware dismissed the lone remaining claim in Arm's lawsuit against Qualcomm and Nuvia, by ruling in favor of Nuvia. This follows Qualcomm's victory in December 2024,...
Well, this sure isn’t going to re-ignite the x86 vs. ARM performance arguments, right? Early, admittedly controlled, benchmarks from the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme show it wiping the floor with top new CPUs from AMD and Intel in both single-core and multi-core performance. Here are the results from Geekbench 6.5 and how they compare against the likes of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V and Qualcomm’s original Snapdragon X Elite as tested by PCWorld. Note that some of these results come from Geekbench 6.1, but they should still be comparable. In a similar...
The very first Samsung Galaxy S phone was announced a long 15 years ago – a lot has changed in smartphone photography since then. That original S-phone had a 5MP camera that could record 720p video. The latest Galaxy S25 Ultra has a 200MP camera and can record 8K video – that’s 4320p! To put it another way, the resolution for still images has increased 40x, while video recording has 36x the number of pixels. That’s just the main camera – one of the biggest changes since 2010 is the growing number of cameras. The S25 Ultra has four on its back, including a new 50MP ultra-wide, a 50MP...
Samsung has released a new report stating that the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 continue to enjoy strong demand in the US, maintaining momentum months after release. Samsung’s newest Galaxy Z foldables are said to be outperforming all earlier generations in sales. The Galaxy Z Flip7 is reportedly converting more users from competing smartphone brands than any of its predecessors. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Z Fold7 is generating strong interest among existing Galaxy users, especially those from the Galaxy S Ultra series. Samsung reports that nearly 30% of Z Fold7 buyers are upgrading...
Samsung has released a new report stating that the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 continue to enjoy strong demand in the US, maintaining momentum months after release. Samsung’s newest Galaxy Z foldables are said to be outperforming all earlier generations in sales. The Galaxy Z Flip7 is reportedly converting more users from competing smartphone brands than any of its predecessors. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Z Fold7 is generating strong interest among existing Galaxy users, especially those from the Galaxy S Ultra series. Samsung reports that nearly 30% of Z Fold7 buyers are upgrading...
It’s been over a year since OpenAI announced Sora - its video and audio generation model. OpenAI is now introducing the first major update with Sora 2, which can generate more realistic and physically accurate videos, along with improved user control and editing capabilities. Described as a “GPT 3.5-moment”, Sora 2 also brings improved sound output with synchronized dialogue and sound effects. Sora 2 is able to avoid common problems associated with prior video generation models, such as morphing objects and distorting physical reality to complete a prompt. Generated videos will also...
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