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Samsung today has announced that they have developed an even faster generation of LPDDR5X memory that is set to top out at LPDDR5X-10700 speeds. The updated memory is slated to offer 25% better performance and 30% greater capacity compared to existing mobile DRAM devices from the company. The new chips also appear to be tangibly faster than Micron's LPDDR5X memory and SK hynix's LPDDR5T chips. Samsung's forthcoming LPDDR5X devices feature a data transfer rate of 10.7 GT/s as well as maximum capacity per stack of 32 GB. This allows Samsung's clients to equip their latest smartphones or laptops with 32 GB of low-power memory using just one DRAM package, which greatly simplifies their designs. Samsung says that 32 GB of memory will be particularly beneficial...
The Pixel Density Race and its Technical Merits
While this has always been an issue that’s been in the background since Android OEMs started releasing devices with display PPIs above the 300-400 “retina” range, recent events have...
102 by Joshua Ho on 2/8/2014
Some Thoughts on Lenovo's Acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google
Earlier this evening Google announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to hardware manufacturer Lenovo for a deal valued at just below $3 billion. Given my fondness for the Moto...
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/29/2014
Google Announces Moto G Google Play Edition
We've already taken a look at the international Moto G, and today Google surprised us with the formal announcement of a Google Play edition Moto G based on that...
19 by Brian Klug on 1/14/2014
AnandTech Mobile Show at CES 2014 Video Live Now
Earlier this week, Brian and I sat down at recapped some of the recent mobile announcements at CES, as well as other things we'd been working on over the...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2014_carousel.JPG)
Lenovo: Yoga, Miix 2, and ThinkPad Tablets; Vibe Z and K900 Smartphones
Moving along in our Lenovo coverage, there were a couple of smartphones as well as quite a few tablets on display. The Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 promise up...
11 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014
AnandTech Mobile Show at CES 2014 Today
A couple of months ago Brian and I did a mobile show on video live from IDF where we discussed a lot of what was going on in mobile...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2014
Sony launches Xperia Z1 Compact, Z1S at CES 2014
Today at CES, Sony announced the Xperia Z1 Compact. This phone finally fills a slot that has been ignored in the Android device space, which is a phone that...
19 by Joshua Ho on 1/7/2014
ASUS at CES 2014: ROG 27” 1440p 120Hz G-Sync Monitor, Tablets, Smartphones, and a new Transformer Book
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, ASUS are attacking mobile in more ways than one. We have bodies/editors on the ground to get hands on with all...
57 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014
Huawei Announces Ascend Mate 2 - 6.1 inch and 1.6 GHz Quad Core
We’re here at Huawei’s 2014 CES press conference, where they’ve announced their newest smartphone, the Huawei Ascend Mate 2. The Ascend Mate 2 is the successor to the Ascend...
8 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014
Audience Announces its Fourth Generation Voice Processor - eS700 Series
We've been covering and tracking ambient noise reduction technologies in smartphones for a while now, and one of the players in that space, Audience, is announcing its fourth generation...
4 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014
LG Announces G Flex Coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile in 2014
We've been using and working on our review of the SK Telecom version of the LG G Flex, and have heard rumors about the device coming stateside and to...
2 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
NVIDIA has taken to using CES as its platform for launching members of its Tegra mobile SoC family. This year was no different as it shifted branding a bit...
88 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014
NVIDIA Announces Tegra K1 SoC with Optional Denver CPU Cores
At its CES press conference, NVIDIA finally revealed the marketing name for Project Logan - NVIDIA's latest mobile SoC: Tegra K1. NVIDIA hasn't said much about the architectural details...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2014
NVIDIA CES 2014 Press Conference Live Blog
We are seated at NVIDIA's CES 2014 Press Conference. Our live blog begins at 8:00PM PT.
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/5/2014
Motorola Moto G Review
I like what the new Motorola is doing. It seems like an eternity ago, but I remember when phone launches with Motorola meant a variety of variants all with...
120 by Brian Klug on 12/18/2013
Google Play Edition LG G Pad 8.3, Sony Z Ultra, White Nexus 7 Announced
Today Google dropped by news of three new products hitting the Google Play store's device section, Google Play editions of LG's G Pad 8.3 and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra...
39 by Brian Klug on 12/10/2013
Smartphone Audio Quality Testing
We spend a lot of time watching and listening to our smartphones and tablets. The younger you are the more likely you are to turn to them for watching...
188 by Chris Heinonen on 12/8/2013
A Month with the HTC One max
A Month with the HTC One max In October I was contacted by HTC’s PR agency here in London, and after a series of discussions they sent me a HTC...
43 by Ian Cutress on 12/5/2013
Google Nexus 5 Review
Each year, Google picks a silicon vendor, a hardware partner, and releases a new version of Android running on top of them. The result is a Nexus phone, and...
231 by Brian Klug on 12/5/2013
A Look at LG G Flex and its Deformable Plastic OLED DIsplay
Today we had a chance to get hands on with LG's very hyped flexible, curved smartphone, the aptly named LG G Flex. We're going to be reviewing it and...
23 by Brian Klug on 12/4/2013
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