Samsung is now the only company making a proper Android rival to the iPad Pro, Engadget says, with the $1,399.99 Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra. For teams standardising tablets, that leaves one supplier at the top end and a per-seat cost well above the sticker once a keyboard goes on.
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Apple's first foldable leads the Galaxy Z Fold8 by 102 Geekbench points and costs up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's Ultra, a premium industry analysts attribute partly to memory supply disruption.
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Qualcomm launched two 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 phone chips in Maui and pitched them for on-device AI agents, with an NPU up to 35% faster. The standard chip's NPU gains 14%, so agents meant for the widest set of phones get the smaller jump.
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build3 publishersConfirmed Tom's Hardware puts the M5 Ultra at up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth over as much as 256GB of soldered unified memory, so the capacity that decides which weights stay resident is settled at checkout.
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Qualcomm has published first-party benchmarks for its new top Snapdragon tier, measured on its own reference hardware. The generational gain it reports depends almost entirely on which part of the chip a workload leans on.
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Qualcomm's new top-tier Snapdragon can run a 30-billion-parameter model on the handset. The memory that makes on-device AI work is also the cost Counterpoint blames for an expected 14% fall in 2026 shipments.
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Tom's Guide measured a 16% CPU gain on a Qualcomm Reference Design whose battery it calls unrepresentative. Apple's A20 Pro still leads single-core, and the Snapdragon's clearest win was lower gaming wattage.
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Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at $5,499 and reached $12,299 as tested, and the reviewer running local agents on it every day says the most expensive Anthropic subscription would still have cost less for years.
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The review's own processor numbers run from 8 to 22 percent, and its case for replacing an M4 Max or M3 Ultra Studio rests on disk throughput. Memory and storage are soldered, so that gain arrives only with a whole new machine.
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build1 publisherOne report Tom's Hardware blames rising component costs from AI demand for the move from $599 to $899. Because the memory is soldered on package, the upgrade tiers that got pricier are the only lever a buyer has.
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Apple kept last year's design, so the gains sit in a 2nm chip and a bigger vapor chamber. The one job for app teams: a smaller Dynamic Island that now holds three Live Activities.
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The Verge tested 8GB and 16GB XPS 13 units, both with 512GB SSDs, and recommended the $999.99 one. Dell has since moved the $699.99 entry price onto a 256GB machine and added $100 to both tested builds.
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build1 publisherOne report One early Geekbench 7 submission reported by Tom's Hardware puts the six-core chip 32% ahead of Intel's Core i9-14900KS in single-thread, while its multi-thread total works out to 2.86 times that score.
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Leaked internal tests put the Exynos 2700 ahead of an unshipped Snapdragon. The number that matters is the 7.44 trillion won Samsung spent on outside application processors in six months.
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