Catching up, fingers crossed strategy

TSMC is currently manufacturing the MediaTek 10nm, deca core based Helio X30 and it looks like in 2018, TSMC might be ready for 7nm and twelve core SoCs from the same house. 

Jumping the gun

Verizon Communications claims it will be offering its high-speed wireless 5G network to certain customers in 11 U.S. cities in the first half of 2017.

Pinecone ready

Xiaomi has sent out invitations for the product launch for its in-house developed Pinecone CPUs and  entry-level to mid-range smartphones.

Can’t shift them any more

It is starting to look like customers are giving up on 3G phones, even in India where they are cheap reliable work horses which normally get a signal.

But sees trouble ahead

Former playing card maker Nintendo has managed to make its first profit in four quarters thanks to its mobile gaming division.

Still as expensive as the iOS version

The former maker of playing cards and consoles with a urine branding theme, Nintendo, has told the Android world that they will get a version of Super Mario Run in March.

Coming to notebooks with higher clocks

Although we have already had most of the details thanks to an earlier leak, Nvidia has now officially unveiled its new mainstream notebook GPUs, the Geforce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile and the GTX 1050 Mobile.

Co-founder heads to PC

Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he created with Palmer Luckey four years ago.

Notebooks with GP107 GPU

According to the latest reports, Nvidia might unveil its new GTX 1050 Mobile graphics card at CES 2017.

CPUs and GPUs are on 14/16 nm

Keith Kressin, a Qualcomm senior vice president, product management, reminded us how the world changed in the last ten years and that the mobile industry leads the transition to smaller manufacturing nodess. With Snapdragon 835 being the first 10nm, the mobile SoC with Qualcomm on helm takes the lead beating CPU and GPU industry to a new manufacturing node.