Samsung is officially the world’s top chipmaker, Intel likely to settle for second place overall this year

For the first time in almost 25 years, someone other than Intel leads the semiconductor industry. The new king is Samsung, and its 2017 crown looks safe.

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How the iPhone 8 ruined the Huawei P10 for memory freaks

Apple is throwing its weight around by commanding a lot of production capacity for memory chips, leaving the competition in jitters.

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How the iPhone 8 ruined the Huawei P10 for memory freaks

Apple is throwing its weight around by commanding a lot of production capacity for memory chips, leaving the competition in jitters.

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Huawei P10 memory chip speeds worryingly inconsistent between eMMC 5.1 and UFS 2.1

Critics across social media are inferring from benchmarks and other evidence that Huawei is using different grades of RAM and flash storage chips.

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The wait for 64-bit Windows 10 Mobile may be holding back progress

Why is Windows 10 Mobile still a 32-bit OS when Android and iOS have long been on the 64-bit train? Everyone in mobile has access to 64-bit kit, so why should Microsoft’s software limit what people can do, especially when RAM counts are breaking 6GB these days?Well, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile have traditionally been

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iPhone 7 Plus multitasking takes advantage of RAM with iOS 10.1 beta

You don’t see the explosion of posts about how the iPhone 7 Plus have had poor multitasking capabilities as you’ve seen with the OnePlus 3. Part of that could be with the optics of numerals — the OnePlus phone had 6GB of RAM while the Apple-optimized iPhone 7 Plus held 3GB.Still, just because you have complete control of hardware and software, that doesn’t mean that the whole ...

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Dueling LG V20 specs saunter into the speculation spotlight

You know how sequels should theoretically be “upgrades” to their predecessors? According to one source, we should be expecting a downgrade this year from the LG V10 for the V20. And if you prefer not to believe that, we have another rumored spec sheet for those thankful of the status quo.Let’s tackle the numbers we’re getting from the Seoul Economic Daily, first. The ...

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Taiwanese industry sources expect 3GB RAM iPhones

With age comes more RAM and more responsibility. So should go the spiel that every manufacturer gives to its phones, but that’s anthropomorphizing gone insane.The rumor at hand is that we’re getting more word not just from KGI or other analysts, but from anonymous “industry” sources via Digitimes that the new iPhone will have 3GB of RAM. That, in ...

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