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Samsung has released a new Galaxy Note smartphone every year for the last decade, but this might be the first time Samsung skips the stylus-packing flagship. According to the company’s mobile chief DJ Koh, Samsung is rethinking its strategy of releasing multiple flagship device families in a single year. While the Note isn’t dead, as by Bloomberg, Samsung is preparing investors for the possibility Samsung won’t have a major phone release in the second half of the year. Rumors have percolated in recent months, claiming Samsung was going to ax the Galaxy Note family. And indeed, the stars did seem to align — the S21 Ultra has S Pen support, a first for the S family.
Back in 2015, Micron and Intel announced the development of a new type of memory. Dubbed 3D XPoint (Crosspoint), the new type of memory offered endurance levels NAND flash couldn’t match and theoretically higher performance. Intel marketed its brand as Optane while Micron intended to launch its own QuantX products. Micron never actually shipped hardware to the wider public, and Intel has recently scaled back its own Optane efforts to focus on the enterprise. Now, Micron is announcing that it intends to leave the business altogether. It also wants to sell the fab in Lehi, Utah where it currently fabs Optane for Intel.
Intel has revealed Rocket Lake’s full pricing, product mix, and new overclocking features ahead of the CPU’s retail launch on March 30. Rocket Lake CPUs are based on the Cypress Cove microarchitecture and they represent a breath of fresh air after nearly six years of Skylake-era refreshes. The slide above covers the high-level improvements. To build Cypress Cove, Intel backported the 10nm Sunny Cove microarchitecture it first debuted with Ice Lake back in 2019. On mobile, Sunny Cove had trouble hitting high clock speed, but this was attributed to its process node more than its underlying architecture.
Today, AMD is launching the RX 6700 XT, a new high-end GPU that at least dips below a theoretical $500 price point. Just as the 6800 XT and 6800 filled in the top ranks of RDNA2, the 6700 XT fills in the next-lowest slot on the price bracket, with a smaller die, fewer cores, and much faster clocks. Please keep in mind that all discussion of GPU pricing below is, by necessity, theoretical. The impact of tariffs between the US and China plus the cryptocurrency boom have rendered GPUs priced at MSRP a rarity. ET will have a review of this GPU up in the immediate future, but we’re currently porting data to a new graphing engine and the process took me a bit longer than anticipated.
Google finds itself in an impossible position. Privacy advocates have long demanded the company follow Microsoft and Mozilla’s lead in purging tracking cookies from Chrome. Now that it’s doing so, a group of state attorneys general has filed an amended antitrust complaint that uses the so-called “Privacy Sandbox” as ammunition against the company. It may be impossible to please everyone when your browser owns most of the internet. Google announced its intention to phase out third-party cookies last summer. Firefox and Edge just pulled the plug on cookies, but Google is an advertising company. So, it opted to slowly move away from cookies while it worked with the ad industry to devise a new, open system for ad targeting known broadly as the Privacy Sandbox.
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Epic’s feud with Google and Apple is dragging on in the courts, but now both app store operators have made substantial changes to the way they share revenue with indie developers. Google has followed Apple’s lead in for all earnings under $1 million per year. Instead of paying 30 percent of every sale, developers in this category only pay 15 percent. Google will make this change official this coming July, and it applies to all developers. Yes, even Epic if it cleans up its act and comes back to the Play Store. However, the lower rate only applies to the first million dollars the dev takes in each year.
