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Last year, Samsung announced the introduction of EUV into their 7LPP process used in the Exynos 9825. Through analysis of the part, we found little difference between their 7LPP process in the 9825 and their 8LPP process in the Exynos 9820. Now, we are excited to say that we have found Samsung’s

Originally Posted: March 12,2020 TechInsights is excited to announce we have found the first Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) 3D 64L Xtacking TLC NAND device, and our extensive analysis on this market-disrupting part is under way. With this device, YMTC has become China's first mass-producer

Contributing Authors: Ray Fontaine Congratulations to the Samsung team for not only delivering a well spec’d camera system, but also for being first to market with 0.7 µm generation pixels! The GH1 stacked imager, announced in September 2019 , is in use in the S20 Ultra 5Gs front-facing camera.

Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Ray Fontaine It is an especially busy time in TechInsights’ labs. Just a few days after we started the teardown of various models of the Xiaomi Mi 10 flagship series - the world’s first Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 platform phone that also supports LPDDR5 - we now have

Here we were, waiting for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S20 so we could see the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform, and along came Xiaomi with their announcement on February 13 that the Mi 10 - also based on the Snapdragon 865 - would be available (very) soon. We waited days - not weeks -

Huawei Leads Imaging Chip Area Arms Race, Sony Wins Big with i-ToF, Emergence of Event-Driven Vision Sensors Posted: December 18, 2019 Contributing Authors: Ray Fontaine, Senior Technology Analyst Samsung, Huawei and Apple continue to push more imaging-related silicon into their flagship smartphone

Posted: December 12, 2019 Contributing Authors: Sinjin Dixon-Warren, PhD Consumer demand for smaller form factor and higher power, plus government efficiency regulations , are driving innovation in the USB adapter market. The USB-C power delivery standards are a further driver for innovation in this

Posted: November 8, 2019 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner Figure 1: the Apple U1 UWB chip One of the most intriguing components included in the iPhone 11 is the mystery chip Apple simply labeled as ‘U1.’ TechInsights has been busily analyzing this part, and we are excited about what we are finding

Introducing the Kirin 990 5G Posted: November 7, 2019 Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner The Huawei Mate 30 Series is the latest installment of the company’s annual flagship smartphones, released on September 19, 2019 in Munich. TechInsights’ Deep Dive Teardown analysis is in progress

Posted: October 31, 2019 Contributing Author: Sinjin Dixon-Warren Silicon carbide (SiC) is a widely used industrial material. Widescale production by the Carborundum Company started in 1893 following the discovery of the Acheson process, which is still being used. SiC is rarely found in nature, for

One of the most interesting components from the recently released Apple iPhone 11 line of phones is one that Apple has said very little about; the Apple U1 Ultra Wideband (UWB) chip. So far, Apple has said only that the chip enables directional AirDrop functionality, but we expect to find the U1 in

Posted: September 27, 2019 Contributing Author: Sinjin Dixon-Warren The iPhone 11 Pro Max ships with the Apple 1720 18 W USB-C power delivery charger. This device is rated to delivery 5 V and 3 A or 9 V and 2 A. In follow up to our recent blog concerning various aftermarket AC adapters, we decided