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Apple's A19 Pro throws down the gauntlet for Qualcomm and MediaTek

Apple once again takes back the CPU lead, and the A19 Pro gets a healthy AI upgrade.

(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and networking gear. What's of particular interest to me is that the A19 Pro once again takes the lead in overall CPU scores; while this was the case for much of the last decade, Qualcomm's switch to a fully custom design allowed it to get an edge over Apple, and this was evident not just in synthetic workloads like Geekbench but real-life usage scenarios. There's no question that Google has the edge in this area with the Pixel 10 Pro XL; the phone has a vast suite of meaningful AI utilities, and it continually gets new features, like the image-to-video Veo 3 engine.

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