Thermal throttling and Thermal runaway
Hi there, let's look at thermal throttling and thermal runaway. These are terms that are thrown around quite frequently. Now, let's start with the basics. Key terms Thermal is derived…
Google Tensor G2
Google have finally released the details to the new SoC on the new Pixel phones. The name of this new SoC is the Google Tensor G2. Last year, Google, a…
Top 20 Smartphone cameras in the World
In today's post, we are going to be counting down the top 20 smartphone cameras in the world. Article was updated at 12pm on the 24th of May, 2023. Cameras…
Top 10 smartphone brands in Africa (2022)
Africa is emerging as a new battlefront for smartphone companies to fight for supremacy. Here are the top 10 smartphone brands in Africa. The competition for market shares is very…
Hard Drives vs SSDs (Space vs Speed)
Hard Drives vs SSDs is one of the very many questions I have to field. Lots of people who want to buy a laptop or a storage drive for general…
What are SSDs?
Solid State Drives are now becoming popular but more importantly, cheaper. So lets tackle the question, what are SSDs? An Solid state drive is a type of device that uses…
What is eMMC storage for smartphones?
What is eMMC storage for smartphones? Well to answer that, we need to know what smartphone storage is. Storage is a place where you keep stuff. All smartphones (and computers)…
Generic vs Branded Image sensors
In today's post, I want to talk about Generic vs Branded image sensors. An image sensor is a photosensitive plate that sits at the back of every camera. It is…
SoC Optimization
So what I want to look at is a teeny tiny thing called SoC optimization. Yes, SoC optimization. It's something that a lot of people tend to overlook. What is…
Exynos Mongoose Custom Cores
Samsung have been making SoCs for a long time now. 12 years to be exact. For most of that time, they have used ARM's IP cores, but for a brief…