US bans ZTE from buying Qualcomm chipsets for seven years
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- 17 Apr 2018
ehh, 17 Apr 2018I guess mediatek will get the business from ZTE.MediaTek is effectively dead. Almost no one buying their SoC. They are running for benchmarks, not for experience - overpowered throttling CPU, slow ancient heavily overclocked GPUs, poor drivers. Management seem completely lost any connection with reality.
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- 17 Apr 2018
exynos.....or mediacrap....... i´m not even considering hilicon
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- 17 Apr 2018
Yoo, 17 Apr 2018Apple does not produce it`s own chips at the moment, they a... moreApple is developing own chipsets and they are being manufactured by TSMC and Samsung.
China should just ban Apple phones.
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- 17 Apr 2018
the.one, 17 Apr 2018"Better buy chipsets from Apple or..."
from apple? apple i... moreApple does not produce it`s own chips at the moment, they are buying theirs from INTEL.
However this may change eventually.
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- 17 Apr 2018
Shanti Dope, 17 Apr 2018Yes, get rid of Qualcomm chipsets that have little to no im... moreMaybe if you're using the low-end chips sure.
Qualcomm's been making great improvements at the mid-range chips, it just happens that OEMs don't purchase them. They also make decent improvements on their flagship chips.
Case in point: QSD 845 is faster than the new Exynos 9810 when it comes to running all tasks, and it does so by using less battery. The E-9810 only looks great on their single-core synthetic test, which isn't indicative of real-performance, especially since it thermal throttles bad.
...AND let's not forget that Qualcomm is almost the ONLY chip provider that freely hands out documentation, drivers, and makes kernel-source release a breeze for the OEMs. If you're thinking of custom Kernels/ROMs/MODs you're better served with a Snapdragon chipset and a handset with an unlocked bootloader (Pixel's being the best).
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- 17 Apr 2018
Shanti Dope, 17 Apr 2018Yes, get rid of Qualcomm chipsets that have little to no im... more"Better buy chipsets from Apple or..."
from apple? apple is not american company?
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- 17 Apr 2018
ZolaIII, 17 Apr 2018It's not really false security patches, it's incomplete one... moreIt's fun as you try to evade the truth by retelling clichés. In any case ZTE, TCL and Mediatek SoC are the worst in the security updates. And if the sellers are partly to blame, they should choose them better or have them committed to updating by contract, or better sell directly instead of leaving the phones in the hands of unreliable third parties. And if I have to choose someone who spies on me, I prefer it to be an allied or friendly country and not a communist country based on social control and lack of rights.
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Apr 2018
hah "prohibited goods such as chipsets"
in US is easier to buy weed than bread but somehow chipsets are illegal lol
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- 17 Apr 2018
So? Just buy latest Exynos or Kirin chip and you're good. That's likely the dumbest ban. Instead fine them some 10 billion like the EU did to apple. You make money and dont punish your own businesses.
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- 17 Apr 2018
Yes, get rid of Qualcomm chipsets that have little to no improvement every single year.
Better buy chipsets from Apple or Samsung and show them that they've made the worst decision of prohibiting them to buy Qualcomm chipsets.
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- 17 Apr 2018
Anonymous, 17 Apr 2018You don't know what tin foil hat implies, do you?Yes.
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- 17 Apr 2018
Alien , 17 Apr 2018No Snapdragon = NO way I'm not buying it! Specially if it's... moreIt might be an Exynos without the crippled part.
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- 17 Apr 2018
David Icke, 17 Apr 2018Have you been wearing that tin foil hat again? You don't know what tin foil hat implies, do you?
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- 17 Apr 2018
AnonD-468012, 17 Apr 2018Why every chinese brand has problem in UK and US? They have no problem with facebook and other giants like google sneaking into their privacy but would unnecessarily keep on blaming others like huawei,zte,xiaomi whereas they have no proof of that. Americans keep blaming others for privacy concerns but the real culprits are the american companies(not all) which steal data from whole over the world. SICK!
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- 17 Apr 2018
Zero, 17 Apr 2018This is an excuse to take down even Samsung to US and leave... moreHave you been wearing that tin foil hat again?
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- 17 Apr 2018
Anonymous, 17 Apr 2018I really doubt that people could appreciate their lies rele... moreIt's not really false security patches, it's incomplete one's as kernel side of CVE's isn't being done. Not a single OEM did it in most cases but vendor's are equally to be blamed because they also don't work on kernels if they did OEM's would use it. So the worst one on the massive scale is Qualcomm (by the number of affected SoC's). Only good maintained costume ROM's & kernels that come with them are fully patched & mostly only for Qualcomm SoC's. Back doors are long time already there & mostly from vendor's, in 99% cases those are US vendors all do those backdoors and spyware (as QC engineering mode or Google analytics) aren't in the first place design for government purposes you can bet your ass government has access to them. Even open source community can't exclude those. So in the best case you can choose which government will spy on you.
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- 17 Apr 2018
I guess mediatek will get the business from ZTE.
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- 17 Apr 2018
AnonD-738179, 17 Apr 2018Yes they can use exynos mtk kirin.. hope US bans for all ch... moreNo Snapdragon = NO way I'm not buying it! Specially if it's kirin or mediatek bleah!