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Samsung’s Exynos 1080 is its first five-nanometer chip
Samsung doesn’t have a phone coming out right now, but would like to remind all of you that its own silicon packs a punch. The company has announced its first five-nanometer SoC, the Exynos 1080, which will likely feature in a number of handsets thro… Source
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Qualcomm’s latest smartwatch chips support 16-megapixel cameras
It’s been almost two years since Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, and in that time there haven’t been many exciting developments in smartwatches, Google bought Fitbit, though that union is yet to be complete. Companies continued… Source
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MIT fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
Someday, we might be able to carry around tiny, AI brains that can function without supercomputers, the internet or the cloud. Researchers from MIT say their new “brain-on-a-chip” design gets us one step closer to that future. A group of engineers pu… Source
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The USA’s latest trade legislation is more bad news for Huawei phones
Things are going from bad to worse for Huawei as the US government doubles down on its apparent crusade to prevent the Chinese tech giant from operating in the States. Following the further tightening of export controls on Huawei’s access to American… Source
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Light-emitting silicon overcomes a major obstacle to denser, faster chips
The push for ever-smaller chips has been running into more and more obstacles, including the very limits of silicon — while optical connections would allow for denser, speedier processors by eliminating heat and energy issues, silicon is lousy at emi… Source
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