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...
NVIDIA & VMware Preview GRID vGPU & Tegra K1 Chromebook Support
NVIDIA has been anything but shy about their GPU virtualization aspirations, making it a focal point for the company’s development since the launch of their first GRID cards back...
11 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2014
HTC Announces Desire 510: First 64-bit Android Phone
While normally one might expect high end phones to get the latest and greatest features first, this time we see a bit of a surprising reversal. The Desire 510...
47 by Joshua Ho on 8/27/2014
Unity Adds Native x86 Support for Android
Intel is facing an uphill battle in the mobile space from a marketshare perspective, but there's an additional challenge: the bulk of mobile apps are compiled targeting ARM based...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2014
State of the Part: SoC Manufacturers
Introduction A few years ago, it seemed a new System-On-Chip (SoC) design using an ARM-based architecture would pop up every other week. While competition can be great, with so many...
94 by Jarred Walton on 8/19/2014
ARM's Cortex M: Even Smaller and Lower Power CPU Cores
ARM (and its partners) were arguably one of the major causes of the present day smartphone revolution. While AMD and Intel focused on using Moore’s Law to drive higher...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/18/2014
Samsung Announces Exynos 5430: First 20nm Samsung SoC
While we mentioned this in our Galaxy Alpha launch article, Samsung is finally announcing the launch of their new Exynos 5430 SoC. The main critical upgrade that the new chips...
77 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/13/2014
AMD’s Big Bet on ARM Powered Servers: Opteron A1100 Revealed
It has been a full seven months since AMD released detailed information about its Opteron A1100 server CPU, and twenty two months since announcement. Today, at the Hot Chips...
28 by Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014
NVIDIA FY 2015 Q2 Financial Results
On Thursday August 7th, NVIDIA released their results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2015. Year-over-year, they had an excellent quarter based on strong growth in the...
16 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2014
The NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Review
While I talked about this in the launch article, the SHIELD Tablet is very much the culmination of lessons learned from 2013. While the Tegra Note 7 was a...
175 by Joshua Ho on 7/29/2014
Watch our Hangout with ARM GPU Fellow Jem Davies
For those of you who weren't able to catch the live stream be sure to watch our interview with ARM Fellow and all around GPU expert Jem Davies. In...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/9/2014
Join us for a Live Hangout with ARM Fellow Jem Davies and Chat about GPUs at 12PM ET Today
After answering your questions in our Ask the Experts post, ARM Fellow and GPU expert Jem Davies agreed to join a live video discussion with me. At 12:00PM ET...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/7/2014
Watch our Hangout with ARM's CTO Mike Muller
Yesterday I spent an hour talking to ARM's CTO Mike Muller about everything from the Internet of Things, ARM in servers, wearables, a roadmap to ARM on the desktop...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/4/2014
ARM’s Mali Midgard Architecture Explored
This year then has been especially productive for learning more about SoC GPUs, and as of today it’s going to get even better. After we took a look at...
66 by Ryan Smith on 7/3/2014
Join Us for a Live Google Hangout with ARM's CTO - Happening Now!
As I hinted at during our interview with Krisztián Flautner, ARM was quite pleased with how things went with our Peter Greenhalgh ATE that it's going to be giving...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/2/2014
Inside the First Android Wear Devices: LG G Watch & Samsung Gear Live Teardown
Last week at IO, Google gave attendees a choice of one of two Android Wear devices to take home and get experience with the platform. Although I personally opted...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2014
Ask the Experts - ARM Fellow Jem Davies Answers Your GPU Questions
When we ran our Ask the Experts with ARM CPU guru Peter Greenhalgh some of you had GPU questions that went unanswered. A few weeks ago we set out...
99 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2014
Ask the Experts: Krisztián Flautner VP of R&D, ARM
Late last year we did an installment of Ask the Experts with ARM's Peter Greenhalgh, lead architect for the Cortex A53. The whole thing went so well, in no...
62 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2014
This is Huge: Intel Enters Strategic Agreement with Chinese SoC Maker Rockchip
Intel's march into the ultra mobile space has been a frustrating one. Architecturally Intel has the chops to play in the market, but its execution has been met with...
60 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/27/2014
Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 Performance Preview
Last year Qualcomm announced a new tier in its high end SoC roadmap with the Snapdragon 805. Priced somewhat above the current Snapdragon 800/801, the 805 would be the...
149 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/21/2014
NVIDIA Q1 FY2015 Financial Results
This afternoon NVIDIA announced their quarterly earnings for Q1 2015. Overall GAAP revenue came in at $1.1B, up 16% year over year and down 4% sequentially. Gross margin was...
68 by Brett Howse on 5/8/2014
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