SoCs
During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation mobile and desktop products at the same time. With a tight schedule that will see both platforms launch within weeks of each other, today AMD is taking their first step with the launch of the Ryzen AI 300 series – codenamed Strix Point – their new Zen 5-powered mobile SoC. The latest and greatest from AMD, the Strix Point brings significant architectural improvements across AMD's entire IP portfolio. Headlining the...
Bosch and NVIDIA Team Up for Xavier-Based Self-Driving Systems for Mass Market Cars
Bosch and NVIDIA on Thursday announced plans to co-develop self-driving systems for mass-market vehicles. The solutions will use NVIDIA’s next-generation codenamed Xavier SoC as well as the company’s AI-related...
43 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2017Qualcomm Tweaks Snapdragon Brand: No Longer a Processor, Instead a Platform
While all eyes are on Qualcomm for the impending release of devices containing their high-end Snapdragon 835 SoC, this morning the company has a slightly different kind of announcement...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2017Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA: An Intel Atom Octocore Smartphone SoC on 14nm with LTE
Last year Intel decided to cease development of its smartphone SoCs and focus instead on microprocessors for other devices, as well as LTE, 5G modems, as well as various...
47 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2017AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 SoC Begins Sampling: A Step in ARM's 2017 Server Ambitions
There has been a lot of recent movement in the ARM Server SoC space, with three major players. The third player, AppliedMicro, has been acquired by MACOM. MACOM has...
24 by Johan De Gelas on 3/15/2017HiSilicon Kirin 960: A Closer Look at Performance and Power
HiSilicon looks to build on the Kirin 950’s success by adopting ARM’s latest A73 CPU cores and Mali-G71 GPU for the Kirin 960. Still manufactured on a 16nm FinFET...
86 by Matt Humrick on 3/14/2017Imagination Announces PowerVR Furian GPU Architecture: The Next Generation of PowerVR
Taking place today is Imagination Technologies’ annual tech summit in Santa Clara, California. The company’s annual summit is always a venue for major Imagination news, and this year that’s...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/8/2017NVIDIA Announces Jetson TX2: Parker Comes To NVIDIA’s Embedded System Kit
For a few years now, NVIDIA has been offering their line of Jetson embedded system kits. Originally launched using Tegra K1 in 2014, the first Jetson was designed to...
59 by Ryan Smith on 3/7/2017AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2
For users keeping track of AMD’s rollout of its new Zen microarchitecture, stage one was the launch of Ryzen, its new desktop-oriented product line last week. Stage three is...
91 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2017MediaTek Announces Helio X30 Availability: 10 CPU Cores On 10nm
MediaTek first unveiled the Helio X30—its next-generation high-end SoC—last fall, but today at Mobile World Congress the Taiwanese company announced its commercial availability. The Helio X30 is entering mass...
57 by Matt Humrick on 2/27/2017Intel Announces Xeon D-1500 Network Series SoCs with QuickAssist, Four 10 GbE Ports
Intel’s Xeon D SoCs and supporting platforms for storage, web hosting and networking applications seem to be getting traction with actual hardware manufacturers as well as end users. This...
12 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2017Samsung Announces Exynos 8895 SoC: 10nm, Mali G71MP20, & LPDDR4x
Even though Mobile World Congress doesn’t kick off for another few days, Samsung isn’t wasting any time in getting started. This morning the company is announcing their latest generation...
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/23/2017Mediatek Announces the P25: A Faster P20 with Support for Dual Camera
With all the smartphone-based talk about the leading edge of the industry focusing on upcoming 10nm chips, it might be easy to forget that the majority of smartphones sold...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/8/2017Semi-Critical Intel Atom C2000 SoC Flaw Discovered, Hardware Fix Required
Last week, Paul Alcorn over at Tom’s Hardware picked up on an interesting statement made by Intel in their Q4 2016 earnings call. The company, whose Data Center...
38 by Ryan Smith on 2/8/2017United States FTC Charges Qualcomm with Antitrust Violations over Cellular Modem Patents & Technology
Qualcomm’s legal problems are growing. This afternoon the United States Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating Qualcomm for possible anti-trust issues since 2014, has moved on to the...
39 by Ryan Smith on 1/17/2017Qualcomm CES 2017 Liveblog
We're here at CES for our first liveblog of the week, Qualcomm's annual CES presentation.
9 by Ryan Smith & Matt Humrick on 1/3/2017South Korea Fines Qualcomm $865 Million for Anti-Trust Violations
Word comes out of South Korea today that the country’s antitrust regulatory authority, the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), has ruled against Qualcomm in an ongoing antitrust investigation and...
18 by Ryan Smith on 12/28/2016MediaTek Adds the Helio X23 and X27 to Its Deca-Core SoC Family
MediaTek added two additional products to its premiere deca-core SoC family today. The Helio X23 and X27 join the previously released Helio X20 and X25, adding additional performance levels...
17 by Matt Humrick on 12/1/2016ARM Announces Mali-G51 Mainstream GPU, Mali-V-61 Video Processing Block
These days ARM and its customers are in the midst of a major evolution in GPU design. Back in May the company announced their new Bifrost GPU architecture, a...
23 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2016Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things & More
Kicking off a busy day for the Internet of Things market, Intel this morning is announcing the Atom E3900 series. Based upon the company’s latest generation Goldmont Atom CPU...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/25/2016