October 21, 2024

Qualcomm just revealed its shiny new mobile processor at the Snapdragon Summit, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first smartphone chip to feature the company’s Oryon CPU architecture, which debuted earlier this year in the Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors. Qualcomm says it rearchitected Oryon to be efficient enough for smartphones, but that process didn’t involve leaving any performance on the table. In a demo at the Summit, Qualcomm showed the

Even within the niche of PC-based gaming handhelds, there are quite a few systems to choose from. We’ve written about them a lot, and reviewed a few. If you’re trying to sell such a device, you might try to add extra features above and beyond what the competition offers, like the GPD Duo that comes with dual OLED screens built-in. Alternatively, you could go the other way and remove standard features. While initially counterintuitive, it

Qualcomm’s annual Snapdragon Summit is currently underway in sunny Hawaii, and the chipmaker is hitting hard right out of the gate. The company is best-known for its Snapdragon SoCs in smartphones and tablets, and the latest iteration promises to be the fastest and most efficient yet. The Snapdragon 8 Elite bursts onto the scene with CPU cores based on Oryon along with the newest in Adreno graphics, Hexagon NPUs for AI, and photography image signal

Apple appears to be readying its latest iteration of the iPhone SE, which has served as the least expensive entry into the iPhone ecosystem for a few generations. The company has long been able to keep the price of iPhone SE down by reusing the design of the iPhone 8, while only meaningfully upgrading the internal components. However, this latest version looks to be getting a revamp, albeit a familiar one. In images of a

It appears as if the Nintendo Wii U is a hardware failure waiting to happen, which is less than ideal now that Nintendo no longer repairs the console for customers. According to information posted on X by the Retro Blast account, the console is starting to die on owners. To avoid this fate, it’s recommended that owners not let the Wii U sit around for too long without being plugged in. If the console goes