Move over, Qualcomm and MediaTek. Here comes Xiaomi:
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal , Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is looking to join the ranks of Apple, Samsung, and Huawei by developing its own smartphone chips. The report says the move is part of "aspirations to join the top tier" of smartphone manufacturers and an attempt to stand out from the slew of other OEMs.
For now, Xiaomi's processor is apparently called "Pinecone," and it will be released "within a month" according to the report. This might be talking about the processor of the Xiaomi Mi 6, which, if Xiaomi keeps to the usual yearly release cycle, should be out sometime in March. Xiaomi's chip design division isn't coming from nowhere—using a shell company called "Beijing Pinecone Electronics," Xiaomi paid $15 million to acquire mobile processor technology from Datang subsidiary Leadcore Technology Ltd.
Also at TechCrunch and Engadget.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:03PM
the slow and steady erosion of Latin alphabet and its sounds
The problem is that X has no agreed-upon western-wide pronunciation. Originally, the Roman/Greek pronunciation was like how the Scots pronounce ch "Loch Ness Monster" or how the Mexicans pronounce j in "Jesus". Since western lower class Romans had problems pronouncing that consonant - much like modern English speakers do - it all went down hill from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Other_languages [wikipedia.org]
Nowadays, whenever someone tries systematically writing a foreign language using Latin alphabet, X is used rather liberally for missing sounds or just instead of very common digraphs (sh here).
Regardless, English speakers are already used to memorizing the correct pronunciation of borrowed words (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/these-30-words-are-always-mispronounced.html). So, if this is some sort of conspiracy, it's been going on for the better part of a 1000 years and it failed.
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