Following the announcement of mass production Snapdragon processor 820 and Exynos 8890, Samsung announced that it has started mass production of 20-nanometer 4-gigabyte memory HBM2. This is the second generation of the standard, which replaces the current GDDR5, used in particular in the cards. Compared with GDDR5, HBM2 occupies 95% less space and has a seven-fold higher throughput of 256 Gbit / s vs 36 Gb / s (compared 4GB modules). This was made possible thanks to the three-dimensional structure (four 8 Gbps plates) and five thousand TSV-connectors. During the year, Samsung expects to begin producing and 8GB modules HBM2.

Recall that the first graphics cards to the first generation AMD company HBM announced in June 2015. It is expected that this year, together with Nvidia, it will move to the 14- and ... Read more »

On his page on the social network Weibo, senior vice president Xiaomi announced date of the next company presentation - February 24th. Earlier, representatives of Xiaomi confirmed that the presentation of the next flagship smartphone, Mi 5, will be held next month. Therefore, we can hardly doubt that this day will be presented to it Xiaomi Mi 5, the expected picture you see above. Taking into account the duration of the two-hour event, Xiaomi Mi 5 is likely to be the only device that will be announced there.

According to rumors the smartphone will get a 2.5D-display and a processor Snapdragon 820. Recall that in the graphics speed, he surpasses even Apple A9 - in benchmark GFXBench Manhattan off-screen smartphone Le Max Pro gaining 47.3 K / - against 38.6 k / s from iPhone 6s .