The most interesting thing about this generation is how dramatically mobile CPU design has diversified.
A few years ago, Android flagship processors followed very similar templates, usually one prime core, several performance cores, and a group of small efficiency cores. In this generation, almost every company has chosen a different approach.
XRING O3 uses an aggressive 2 + 4 + 4 ten core design.
Exynos 2700 adopts the unusual 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 ten core layout, potentially creating four distinct performance tiers or even two separate 1 + 4 CPU groups.
Dimensity 9600 Pro uses 2 + 3 + 3, with five extremely high clocked primary performance cores.
Qualcomm SM8975 also uses 2 + 3 + 3, but pushes Oryon all the way to 5.01 GHz, clearly emphasizing very high per core performance.
Apple A20 Pro is expected to continue Apple's much smaller 2 + 4 design, relying on very large and wide custom cores.
Traditional low performance small cores have also largely disappeared from the highest end Android SoCs. Even the lowest tier cores are increasingly powerful, area optimized performance cores rather than the old Cortex A5xx style little cores.
Mobile CPU architecture has therefore become much more flexible and diverse. Core count, core class, clock distribution, cluster design and performance targets are now being customized independently by each vendor. This generation truly feels like an era of architectural experimentation, with almost no two flagship processors following exactly the same CPU design philosophy.
Alibaba's AliExpress was caught using users' audio systems to track them.
AliExpress wasn't recording users but instead playing a silent sound and measuring how users' specific devices processed it in order to fingerprint them.
But don't worry because Brave stops this.