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Hardware Intel MacBook Pro News Processors

Intel announces Kaby Lake processors, chips may arrive too late for inclusion in next-gen MacBook Pro

The good news is that Intel announced its seventh-generation Core processors during yesterday’s second quarter earnings call yesterday. The bad news is that the processors, known as “Kaby Lake”, which are made via a 14-nanometer process, might not see the Mac until 2017. Intel’s last two chip releases have been plagued with long delays, and […]

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Bluetooth Hardware News Software

Bluetooth 5 standard to be announced next week, will double range, quadruple speeds

Bluetooth 5, the next generation of the Bluetooth standard, is set to be formally announced next week. The standard will offer double the range and quadruple the speed of the current Bluetooth protocol. Executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Mark Powell, revealed the news in a published email this week. The Bluetooth SIG, […]

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Hardware iPhone Rumor

Rumor: Apple may switch away from Qualcomm for next-gen iPhone modems, could source from multiple vendors

It looks like Apple may be switching away from Qualcomm modems for its next-gen iPhones. During Wednesday’s conference call to analysts, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said he is “assuming” a major Qualcomm customer will be giving modem orders to another company. While Mollenkopf didn’t mention Apple by name, Apple and Samsung are Qualcomm’s largest clients, […]

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Hardware MacBook News

Initial tests point to 15% faster CPU performance, other changes in 2016 12-inch Retina MacBooks

Apple’s next-gen 12-inch retina MacBook is out the door and the numbers have been run on it. Over at Geekbench, Christina Warren noted that that 1.2 GHz configuration runs around 15 to 18 percent faster CPU performance compared to last year’s equivalent model. The notebook earned a single-core score of 2,894 and a multi-core score […]

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Hardware iPhone Rumor

Rumor: iPhone 7 Plus could incorporate 256GB SanDisk NAND flash memory chip

It’s been speculated that Apple could sell an iPhone 7 Plus with 256GB of storage, the NAND flash memory chip hailing from SanDisk. Italian website HDblog has shared pictures of a SanDisk 256GB NAND flash memory chip that could be appropriate for the next-generation smartphone. Apple has used SanDisk flash memory chips in a number […]