Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
A law passed in 2019 by the U.S. authorities, preventing Huawei’s equipment, mainly network paraphernalia, from being used. Now, it appears that the U.S. Department of Defense cannot bar any entity from using this equipment, which has probably riled up The Pentagon because, according to the latest report, it is pushing for a formal waiver that prevents government agencies from signing contracts with companies that have Huawei-branded hardware installed. Huawei accounts for 33 percent of the world’s telecommunications equipment globally, making it next to impossible for companies to replace the hardware with something else The majority of the globe heavily […]
NVIDIA's China-compliant AI GPUs have finally started to gain sales traction, as the domestic tech giants are fed up with Huawei's supply issues. NVIDIA Once Again Shows Huawei "Who's The Boss," The Firm's H20 AI GPUs Receive Massive Orders From Top Chinese Firms NVIDIA has witnessed another lifeline for its relevance in the Chinese markets, as Morgan Stanley reports that the firm's AI offerings have started to appeal to Chinese tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance. Local media also reiterates this development, claiming that Chinese companies have started to place massive orders for NVIDIA's cut-down H20 AI accelerator, […]
The Pura 70 Satellite SMS Edition is a new flagship introduced by Huawei that features various differences from the base Pura 70 the company launched a while back. One of the biggest changes is in the smartphone’s name, and the other is the inclusion of the new Kirin 9010E. However, as we learn more about the chipset’s specifications, we conclude that the SoC is not all that different from the Kirin 9010 used in Huawei’s high-end Pura 70 models. Kirin 9010E features slightly downclocked high-performance cores but shares the same 12-core cluster as the Kirin 9010 It turns out that the […]
Huawei has released its first consumer-centric Gen4 SSDs for the Chinese domestic market, offering up to 7400 MB/s speeds. Huawei Rolls Its First Attempt At Consumer Gen4 SSDs, eKitStor Xtreme 200 With Up To 7.4 GB/s Speeds & 4 TB Capacities The Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has decided to reenter the SSD market through its latest offering, the Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 SSD. For those unaware, this isn't Huawei's first venture in the storage markets, but the Xtreme 200 is indeed the firm's first consumer SSD product, and they are looking to switch from the client side of things. […]
The Kirin 9000S ushered a new gateway that enabled Huawei to break free of the companies under the influence of the U.S., but the chipset powering the Mate 60 series relied on slower TaiShan cores that would perform poorly in single-core and multi-core workloads. Fortunately, the company is rumored to have made incredible progress, not just with its joint alliance with foundry partner SMIC to start 5nm wafer production but also in making power-efficient TaiShan cores that are significantly more capable than Cortex-A510. Here are more details on the matter. New, unnamed TaiShan cores can achieve a score of 350 […]
For years, Apple has spearheaded the tablet market, and with the launch of its 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models, the company is expected to extend that lead. However, as Huawei is putting pressure on iPhone shipments in China, it is exerting the same threat on Apple’s OLED tablet range. According to the latest data, the Chinese technology firm attained a 25 percent global market share. Overall OLED tablet shipments for Q1 2024 reached an impressive 131 percent year-over-year growth, with Apple leading the pack with its M4 iPad Pro models Even though Huawei has secured second place, Display […]
SMIC, Huawei’s foundry partner, was recently reported to have successfully developed the 5nm process and that too, without the help of EUV machinery. The first recipient of this lithography will likely be a future Kirin chipset that will fuel Huawei’s upcoming Mate 70 series. Now, according to one rumor, the Chinese firm has witnessed a new milestone in its 5nm progression, with one individual claiming that there has been a successful tape-out and small-scale production may have started. Without the use of EUV machinery, Huawei’s 5nm chipset yields could be low and will be expensive to mass produce Despite the […]
Apart from introducing its Mate 70 flagship smartphone series later in the year, Huawei is said to launch HarmonyOS NEXT, its actual in-house operating system, which will give the former Chinese giant the freedom to rid itself of Google’s Android and the looming threat of the U.S. However, to sever any linkage with foreign entities, Huawei is said to remove all source code from HarmonyOS NEXT, including Linux and Android. HarmonyOS NEXT is also said to be more efficient than Android; its performance could be better on Kirin chipsets, which are slower than the competition The announcement of HarmonyOS NEXT […]
The tri-fold form factor is unusual for smartphones, but it can deliver immense utility if the software is optimized and the hardware can keep pace with it. Huawei has been rumored to be working on such a device, but it has likely run into development issues stemming from the advanced form factor, with problems such as software and possibly a lack of an effective cooling solution causing a delay. Unnamed Huawei tri-fold smartphone to use one of the company’s Kirin 9000 series of chipsets; lack of improved power efficiency likely resulting in heat management problems Google has released various updates […]
The greater the economic sense that a particular trade transaction constitutes, the greater is the will to exploit that transaction's intrinsic benefits by circumventing trade barriers. Look no further than the curious case of Huawei's selling of beef products on its online store. As most of our readers would know by now, Huawei is currently under stiff Western sanctions that have severely dented its overseas 5G telecommunication equipment retail business and eliminated the company's ability to procure high-end chips from the likes of TSMC. Despite this inhospitable business environment, Huawei has apparently found a novel solution: using beef as the […]
Complementing Emergency SOS via satellite, Apple officially announced ‘Messages via satellite’ yesterday during its WWDC 2024 keynote, with its singular focus allowing users to take advantage of the iMessage app to communicate with others by sending or receiving texts, emojis and more, even when there is no internet connection. The feature is expected to arrive for the iPhone 14 series when iOS 18 drops later this year. However, it should be noted that before Apple, Huawei had gone ahead and announced this feature when it introduced its flagship Mate 50 series. Huawei has gone the extra mile compared to Apple, […]
The Kirin 9000S is considered by the industry to be a semiconductor miracle, as Huawei had to deal with overwhelming odds, thanks to the U.S. sanctions, just to mass produce a chipset last year. Now that the former Chinese giant has successfully displayed its chip-making prowess, the next step is to switch to advanced manufacturing processes to ensure that it maintains some pace with the competition. Unfortunately, in its reported quest to acquire TSMC’s 3.5nm chip shipments, a Huawei executive has expressed disappointment that the attempt has been unsuccessful due to the same trade ban. With the 7nm technology available, […]
A law passed in 2019 by the U.S. authorities, preventing Huawei’s equipment, mainly network paraphernalia, from being used. Now, it appears that the U.S. Department of Defense cannot bar any entity from using this equipment, which has probably riled up The Pentagon because, according to the latest report, it is pushing for a formal waiver that prevents government agencies from signing contracts with companies that have Huawei-branded hardware installed. Huawei accounts for 33 percent of the world’s telecommunications equipment globally, making it next to impossible for companies to replace the hardware with something else The majority of the globe heavily […]
NVIDIA's China-compliant AI GPUs have finally started to gain sales traction, as the domestic tech giants are fed up with Huawei's supply issues. NVIDIA Once Again Shows Huawei "Who's The Boss," The Firm's H20 AI GPUs Receive Massive Orders From Top Chinese Firms NVIDIA has witnessed another lifeline for its relevance in the Chinese markets, as Morgan Stanley reports that the firm's AI offerings have started to appeal to Chinese tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance. Local media also reiterates this development, claiming that Chinese companies have started to place massive orders for NVIDIA's cut-down H20 AI accelerator, […]
The Pura 70 Satellite SMS Edition is a new flagship introduced by Huawei that features various differences from the base Pura 70 the company launched a while back. One of the biggest changes is in the smartphone’s name, and the other is the inclusion of the new Kirin 9010E. However, as we learn more about the chipset’s specifications, we conclude that the SoC is not all that different from the Kirin 9010 used in Huawei’s high-end Pura 70 models. Kirin 9010E features slightly downclocked high-performance cores but shares the same 12-core cluster as the Kirin 9010 It turns out that the […]
Huawei has released its first consumer-centric Gen4 SSDs for the Chinese domestic market, offering up to 7400 MB/s speeds. Huawei Rolls Its First Attempt At Consumer Gen4 SSDs, eKitStor Xtreme 200 With Up To 7.4 GB/s Speeds & 4 TB Capacities The Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has decided to reenter the SSD market through its latest offering, the Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 SSD. For those unaware, this isn't Huawei's first venture in the storage markets, but the Xtreme 200 is indeed the firm's first consumer SSD product, and they are looking to switch from the client side of things. […]
The Kirin 9000S ushered a new gateway that enabled Huawei to break free of the companies under the influence of the U.S., but the chipset powering the Mate 60 series relied on slower TaiShan cores that would perform poorly in single-core and multi-core workloads. Fortunately, the company is rumored to have made incredible progress, not just with its joint alliance with foundry partner SMIC to start 5nm wafer production but also in making power-efficient TaiShan cores that are significantly more capable than Cortex-A510. Here are more details on the matter. New, unnamed TaiShan cores can achieve a score of 350 […]
For years, Apple has spearheaded the tablet market, and with the launch of its 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models, the company is expected to extend that lead. However, as Huawei is putting pressure on iPhone shipments in China, it is exerting the same threat on Apple’s OLED tablet range. According to the latest data, the Chinese technology firm attained a 25 percent global market share. Overall OLED tablet shipments for Q1 2024 reached an impressive 131 percent year-over-year growth, with Apple leading the pack with its M4 iPad Pro models Even though Huawei has secured second place, Display […]
SMIC, Huawei’s foundry partner, was recently reported to have successfully developed the 5nm process and that too, without the help of EUV machinery. The first recipient of this lithography will likely be a future Kirin chipset that will fuel Huawei’s upcoming Mate 70 series. Now, according to one rumor, the Chinese firm has witnessed a new milestone in its 5nm progression, with one individual claiming that there has been a successful tape-out and small-scale production may have started. Without the use of EUV machinery, Huawei’s 5nm chipset yields could be low and will be expensive to mass produce Despite the […]
Apart from introducing its Mate 70 flagship smartphone series later in the year, Huawei is said to launch HarmonyOS NEXT, its actual in-house operating system, which will give the former Chinese giant the freedom to rid itself of Google’s Android and the looming threat of the U.S. However, to sever any linkage with foreign entities, Huawei is said to remove all source code from HarmonyOS NEXT, including Linux and Android. HarmonyOS NEXT is also said to be more efficient than Android; its performance could be better on Kirin chipsets, which are slower than the competition The announcement of HarmonyOS NEXT […]
The tri-fold form factor is unusual for smartphones, but it can deliver immense utility if the software is optimized and the hardware can keep pace with it. Huawei has been rumored to be working on such a device, but it has likely run into development issues stemming from the advanced form factor, with problems such as software and possibly a lack of an effective cooling solution causing a delay. Unnamed Huawei tri-fold smartphone to use one of the company’s Kirin 9000 series of chipsets; lack of improved power efficiency likely resulting in heat management problems Google has released various updates […]
The greater the economic sense that a particular trade transaction constitutes, the greater is the will to exploit that transaction's intrinsic benefits by circumventing trade barriers. Look no further than the curious case of Huawei's selling of beef products on its online store. As most of our readers would know by now, Huawei is currently under stiff Western sanctions that have severely dented its overseas 5G telecommunication equipment retail business and eliminated the company's ability to procure high-end chips from the likes of TSMC. Despite this inhospitable business environment, Huawei has apparently found a novel solution: using beef as the […]
Complementing Emergency SOS via satellite, Apple officially announced ‘Messages via satellite’ yesterday during its WWDC 2024 keynote, with its singular focus allowing users to take advantage of the iMessage app to communicate with others by sending or receiving texts, emojis and more, even when there is no internet connection. The feature is expected to arrive for the iPhone 14 series when iOS 18 drops later this year. However, it should be noted that before Apple, Huawei had gone ahead and announced this feature when it introduced its flagship Mate 50 series. Huawei has gone the extra mile compared to Apple, […]
The Kirin 9000S is considered by the industry to be a semiconductor miracle, as Huawei had to deal with overwhelming odds, thanks to the U.S. sanctions, just to mass produce a chipset last year. Now that the former Chinese giant has successfully displayed its chip-making prowess, the next step is to switch to advanced manufacturing processes to ensure that it maintains some pace with the competition. Unfortunately, in its reported quest to acquire TSMC’s 3.5nm chip shipments, a Huawei executive has expressed disappointment that the attempt has been unsuccessful due to the same trade ban. With the 7nm technology available, […]