Qualcomm has developed a smartphone processor for on-device generative AI. Called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, “this platform unlocks a new era of generative AI enabling users to generate unique content, help with productivity, and other breakthrough use cases,” claimed company general manager Chris Patrick. Certain large language (LLM) and language vision models (LVM) will be supported locally, as will transformer ...
Samsung is set to extended its ‘Self-Repair’ programme for phones to Europe, having launched it in the US last year and recently taken it to Korea. “Galaxy customers who wish to make their own device repairs can access the tools they need, including repair kits and genuine Samsung parts,” said the company. “The program supports repairs to Galaxy S20, S21 ...
Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it. At the top-end of single-thread performance will be Cortex-X4, then Cortex-A720 in the middle, and Cortex-A520 at the power-saving bottom. These can be mixed and matched in clusters of cores (example right). “We are not only delivering the highest performing Arm Cortex CPU ...
Murata is offering a 4V 10μF ceramic capacitor with ±20% tolerance in a 0201 – 0603M package. “They are currently the smallest MLCC products on the market to deliver such capacitance levels,” claimed the company, “representing a 65% size reduction on the 0402 – 1005M products that would normally need to be specified. ” Called GRM035R60G106M, the parts a -55 ...
Oppo, the Chinese phone brand owned by BBK Electronics, has closed down its IC development operation called Zeku. Oppo cited poor market conditions for the closure, blaming “uncertainties in the global economy and the smartphone industry.” Zeku was set up in 2019 and designed the MariSilicon X neural processor unit (NPU) made on TSMC’s 6nm process which is said to ...
Cambridge Mechatronics has created a shape memory alloy actuator for cameras that combines auto-focus and optical image stabilisation (AF+OIS) in the same structure. Designed to move the lens above an image sensor, the actuator uses eight shape memory wires. “By placing shape memory alloy wires in a three-dimensional configuration around the lens, the single actuator can perform both OIS and ...
MediaTek has announced some details of its Dimensity 7200 phone SoC. To be built on a 4nm process from TSMC, it will have eight Arm cores: two 2.8GHz Cortex-A715 cores and six Cortex-A510, then MediaTek’s own AI processing pnit (APU) and an Arm Mali G610 GPU. Memory runs at 6.4Gbit/s and there is UFS 3.1 for storage. For gamers, there ...
Smartphones can be 85% accurate in identifying who is carrying them, merely by detecting motion as the person walks around normally, according to the University of Plymouth. This rises to almost 90% if they walk fast. The trial had 44 participants, aged between 18 and 56, each carrying a phone in a belt pouch for 7 to 10days. Resulting phone gyroscope ...
MediaTek has announced 6nm processors aimed at 5G mobile phones. Dimensity 920 includes hardware-based 4K HDR video capture, supporting up to four concurrent cameras and sensors up to 108Mpixel, and the company is claiming a 9% boost in gaming performance compared to its Dimensity 900 predecessor. An octa-core Arm Cortex-A78 running at up to 2.5GHz is at the heart of its processing, ...
ST Microelectronics has striped down its flagship ST25R3916 NFC reader to create a lower cost IC for identifying accessories for power tools and personal healthcare devices, for example. Called ST25R3918, it works with the company’s ST25 tags, and can be used as an NFC-A/B (ISO 14443A/B) card reader up to 848kbit/s, an NFC-V (ISO 15693) reader up to 53kbit/s, and an ...
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