Meta is building these chips because buying AI hardware at scale is expensive, and relying too heavily on external suppliers leaves less room to shape that hardware to its own needs. Building more in-house could help the company keep AI costs in check.
We are going to move from a smartphone-centric, app-centric digital ecosystem to an agent center. The agent becomes the center. They don't only respond to you. They observe, they interpret, they act. In place of the current approach, where the user initiates everything via a specific application, future technology will be more geared toward enabling agents and tasks.
But he quickly turned pessimistic by warning "In the coming quarters, the handset industry will be constrained by the availability and pricing of memory, particularly DRAM." Those constraints, he said, stem entirely from memory-makers prioritizing memory for AI datacenters and reducing the amount of other memory they make. The laws of supply and demand have kicked in, sending the price of DRAM soaring.
Ayaneo started teasing the Pocket Play, its first smartphone, back in November, and then in December it showed us what it would look like, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play vibes and all. Today, Ayaneo has finally revealed the chipset sitting at the helm of the Pocket Play. It's MediaTek's Dimensity 9300. That's an odd choice, given that the SoC in question came out in 2023. Sure, it was MediaTek's top dog of 2023, but it's more than two years old.
While the Galaxy S26 lineup that's about to launch next month is rumored to be feature Exynos and Qualcomm chips earlier reports suggested Samsung might be ready to move to its own silicon for the following generation. Now however prominent Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station claims the Galaxy S27 Ultra will maintain the current tradition of running only a Snapdragon chipset.
A few days ago, Oppo started teasing an upcoming K-series device in India, and the URL for the teaser microsite revealed that the phone in question is the K14x. As the name implies, this should be the successor to the K13x, which made its debut in June of last year.