On Saturday, Chinese mobile maker Huawei unveiled its first artificial intelligence smartphone chipset, which it hopes will lure customers away from Apple’s upcoming range of new iPhones and towards the Asian company’s “most powerful handset yet,” the Mate 10, which is set to debut next month.

Huawei Unveils AI Mobile Chipset Said to Rival A11 Processor in Upcoming iPhones
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/03/huawei-ai-mobile-chipset-rival-upcoming-iphones/

On Saturday, Chinese mobile maker Huawei unveiled its first artificial intelligence smartphone chipset, which it hopes will lure customers away from Apple’s upcoming range of new iPhones and towards the Asian company’s “most powerful handset yet”, the Mate 10, which is set to debut next month (via Nikkei Asian Review).

Huawei touted the Kirin 970 AI mobile chipset’s built-in “neural processing unit” at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, claiming that the technology is “20 times faster” than a traditional processor.

Sony’s Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact have refreshed designs and Android Oreo
Snapdragon 835 and a new camera arrive for Sony’s mainstream phones
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/31/16228234/sony-xperia-xz1-xz1-compact-android-oreo-ifa-2017

Sony is today announcing the new Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact smartphones, which replace the XZ and X Compact released a year ago. The main updates to the new phones are Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor and refined designs, which, in the case of the XZ1, include a full metal frame. In addition, the XZ1 pair will be among the first phones to launch with Android 8.0 Oreo already installed.