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friday this week apple announced a new
apple event and i have some predictions
for it there's also a brand new historic
chip industry alliance with some very
exciting prospects and samsung got
caught throttling their phones i'm
afraid we were also doom-scrolling on
twitter all day so there is no quiz this
week but we'll be back with that next
week and welcome to the friday checkout
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okay with mwc just behind us we had an
insanely packed week full of new
releases starting with three new
flagship phone series the honor magic 4
series which is really just a huawei
mate phone in disguise the nubia z40
series which is currently china
exclusive and the gaming oriented lenovo
legion y90 which i personally find the
most interesting as it actually comes
with not only standard ufs 3.1 storage
but also an actual ssd in addition in
raid 0 configuration that is desktop
class memory it is supposedly much
faster than ufs and it is a first in a
smartphone then we got a boatload of
mid-range phones from both nokia and tcl
that are both so overwhelming and
underwhelming at the same time that i
honestly can't be bothered to even list
them out oppo announced its first ever
tablet the oppo pad as a china exclusive
for now and this technically happened
last week but i somehow missed it and we
also got some regional launches with
realme bringing its flagship gt2 pro to
europe and asus finally bringing its
zenfone 8 z to india about
i don't know eight months late ugh
classic aces i see you still don't want
to actually sell any of your phones so
well done on that you cheeky bastards
and i guess my final release will be the
pole star o2 a kind of concept card that
has a party trick of launching a
built-in drone for filming itself i love
a company that knows how to include a
ridiculous feature just to get a
publicity stunt okay my first story of
the week will be samsung's brand new
throttling mess so earlier this week
various users found that samsung's game
optimizing service actively throttles
about 10 000 different apps on their
phones including not just a bunch of
games but also instagram microsoft
office netflix and a bunch of different
first party apps like samsung pay
samsung pass and more but of course not
performance benchmarks which were left
to run at full power a massive list of
apps has been compiled in a document by
users that i have shared below in the
description funny enough one korean
youtuber found that if you just change
the name of a benchmark app to that of a
throttled app like genjen impact you
will get a performance drop of up to 50
percent
now max weinbach from android police was
digging through the code and claims that
the throttling is way more sophisticated
than just turning down clock speeds
bluntly and instead it is balancing
multiple parameters like temperature
expected battery level at different
times cpu speeds and predicted fps
benefits when determining what sorts of
resources a given game gets this tuning
likely varies from app to app and game
to game so benchmark numbers you see
reported here and elsewhere may not be
accurate to all circumstances of course
samsung does this to improve battery
life and not to randomly nuke
performance on their devices and given
that they also seem to restrict their
own apps it doesn't seem to be malicious
but tell me if you've heard the story
before just a few months ago oneplus got
caught doing basically the same thing
and i made a video about that as well
and my take is pretty much the same here
performance and battery life are always
a trade-off and so i think it is okay
for companies to create a sort of
default optimization structure but of
course a keeping this a secret is a big
no-no and b users should be given an
option to turn the optimizations off if
they so desire now to samsung's credit
they have actually acknowledged the
issue pretty much right away and they
have also promised that they will add an
option to turn the throttling off in the
future which is the right move but of
course this should have been the default
to begin with okay my second story of
the week will be a major alliance
between chip makers that want to promote
new types of chips that companies can
kind of combine like legos so the
alliance announced ucie or universal
chiplet interconnect express which is a
brand new open standard for you've
guessed it connecting chiplets hear me
out so you probably know that we have
standards like pcie that help us connect
various computer components like say
gpus and memory to the rest of the
system but as those discrete components
are increasingly miniaturized into
so-called chiplets and combined into
tiny packages those then need new
connective standards of their own think
of intel's recent chip that combines an
intel cpu and an amd gpu and high
bandwidth memory all into one little
package for example which is a type of
design that is gaining popularity in pcs
servers and more with the reduced
distance you can implement connections
that are much faster and require way
less power with the first generation of
new ucie for example promising up to 1.3
terabytes per second of a data through a
one millimeter edge of a chip and
there's talk of 20 times improved
performance and similar energy
efficiency gains as well that is huge in
fact one of the reasons why apple's m1
series chips is so impressive is that
they went even further and included all
the key components onto a single chip
that allows them to get even more
efficient than using chiplets anyway
some manufacturers like intel and amd
have built custom interconnects of their
own before but under the new alliance
many of the largest chip companies in
the world including three huge cpu
designers the three biggest chip
manufacturers as well as big cloud
companies have now come together and
agreed on making an open and
interchangeable standard the first
generation tech is mostly donated to the
alliance by intel it will basically
allow anyone to design and manufacture
chips that are compatible with the open
standard in a way that usb or pcie would
and the implications could be super
interesting a company could
theoretically combine i don't know an
intel cpu an amd gpu memory from samsung
and qualcomm modem or something like
that into a single package even though
all of those components might be
individually made on completely
different manufacturing technologies and
you would get lower prices more
compatibility more choice and so on
that's pretty exciting now this is
likely not going to replace what is in
your phone as like apple's m1 chips the
mobile socs are already fully integrated
but it could be big news for anything
from laptops to servers etc and the
alliance plans to regularly bring new
iterations to market just like other
connectivity standard bodies have done
in the past as well okay and my third
story of the week will be apple's
upcoming event on the 8th of march that
they have already started sending out
invites for and there's lots of
speculation of what they could be
announcing my original guess was that
this would be an ar and vr focused event
because a the text literally says peak
with an e as in to look and b because
the teaser itself has a dot reality file
format which is new for apple apparently
i was wrong though as bloomberg's very
reliable mark german expects apple's
headset to be pushed back to 2023 so
while we might still get a teaser of
sorts he instead expects to see updates
to the most mundane products in apple's
lineup the big focus will be on the
iphone se which will continue with the
same design which is kind of outdated by
now but it will have a new a15 chip and
5g connectivity as well as new cameras
then there is an expected update to the
ipad air once again mostly a spec bump
including 5g for cellular modems and we
will probably also get a new mac mini
with more powerful m1 max and m1 pro
chips apparently macbooks with m2 chips
will come a bit later and might not be
mentioned at the event at all in terms
of software ios 15.4 is expected to roll
out with support for face unlocking with
masks and universal control that allows
people to wirelessly share keyboards and
mice between macs and ipads without any
updates on the m2 chips or maybe apple
glasses or something like that i feel
like the event would be kind of boring i
mean there'd just be spec bumps to
already existing non-flagship devices
which is kind of little for a full apple
event so i would actually expect that
something else would come that we
haven't heard of yet okay that's it for
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