Fiji Radeon 390X comes with 8GB frame buffer
4GB was a limitation, coming in early summer
AMD Fiji is definitely an exciting chip, and many AMD fans are on their toes, eager to see AMD’s first interposer 2.5D High Bandwidth Memory HBM chip.
Android Wear phone swapping process painful
Factory reset of the watch helps
Apple has finally launched the Apple Wath and all of a sudden the world will be crazy about smartwatches. This actually plays quite well for Google, as there is no doubt that the sales of Android Wear devices will spike as well.
MediaTek's new SoC brand is Helio
MT6795 is now Helio X10
Starting last week, following a strong showing at the Mobile World Congress, MediaTek has a new brand name for its premium phone SoCs that is easier to remember than MT, followed by four digits.
HTC One E9 and M9 plus spec looks good
Both rely on MediaTek 6795 SoC
HTC will be launching two cool phones to follow up the HTC One M9 release. The flagship phone looks good and performs quite well, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. We could not get to overheat it doing our time with the device.
Samsung's in-house modem developed over 7 years
San Diego born and raised
Samsung's Exynos 7240 is a little miracle, and being the first mobile 14nm SoC in the market has its own benefits.
The fact that Samsung 14nm SoC works surprised the industry
No one expected such good yields
We found out one rather interesting story at the Mobile World Congress and it sheds more light on Samsung's decision to use Exynos SoCs for most markets instead of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810.
MediaTek to license AMD graphics
For high-end SoCs
One of the hottest things we learned at the Mobile World Congress is that MediaTek is working with AMD on mobile SoC graphics.
World’s first Cortex-A72 SoC spotted at MWC 15
MediaTek MT8173 runs prototype tablet
We had a chance to see the world’s first Cortex-A72 CPU core in the quad-core MediaTek 8173 SoC.
HTC One M9 scores 53852 in AnTuTu
Snapdragon 810 in action
We had a chance to run AnTuTu on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 in the HTC One M9, and we managed to run the latest and greatest 64-bit version of the test.
HTC Vive VR Valve demo runs on GTX 980
It can run AMD too
We still hope that there is a chance that we can see the HTC Vive demo in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but we have a slim chance, right next to hell freezing over.