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...
Mobile Benchmark Cheating: When a SoC Vendor Provides It As A Service
Mobile benchmark cheating has a long story that goes far back for the industry (well – at least in smartphone industry years), and has also been a controversial coverage...
111 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/8/2020
UNISOC Unveils T7520 SoC for 5G Smartphones: Octa-Core, 6nm EUV
UNISOC, formerly Spreadtrum Semiconductor, has announced its first mobile application processor with an integrated 5G modem. Dubbed the T7520, the SoC also happens to be one of the world’s...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/4/2020
Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon
Several years ago, at a local event detailing a new Arm microarchitecture core, I recall a conversation I had with a number of executives at the time: the goal...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/3/2020
Arm Announces Cortex-M55 Core And Ethos-U55 microNPU
Today Arm announces its newest addition to the Cortex-M series, the new Cortex M55. In addition to the new CPU microarchitecture which brings several new improvements, we also see...
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/10/2020
Intel Joins CHIPS Alliance, Contributes Advanced Interface Bus
Intel this week became a member of CHIPS Alliance, an industry consortium that is working to accelerate the development of open source SoCs (and SiPs) for various applications. As...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/24/2020
CES 2020: Ambarella Showcases CV2, CV22 and CV25 Demos
Amongst the many showcases at CES 2020 was Ambarella’s newest demo line-up showcasing various solutions using the CV2, CV22 and also demonstrating new platforms based on the newly announced...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/16/2020
CES 2020: MediaTek Announces New Dimensity 800 Mid-Range 5G SoC
Today MediaTek has announced a new entry into its new “Dimensity” 5G SoC product lineup. The new chip is called the Dimensity 800 and represents a mid-range solution for...
12 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/7/2020
Imagination and Apple Renew IP Licensing Agreement
Today Imagination Technologies has announced that Apple has signed a new multi-year licensing with the company, giving the Cupertino company continued access to Imagination’s IP.
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/2/2020
Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of AI Chip for Baidu: 260 TOPS at 150 W
Samsung Foundry and Baidu this week said that the companies were about to start mass production of an AI accelerator chip early in 2020. Baidu’s Kunlun chip is to...
9 by Anton Shilov on 12/18/2019
NVIDIA Details DRIVE AGX Orin: A Herculean Arm Automotive SoC For 2022
While NVIDIA’s SoC efforts haven’t gone entirely to plan since the company first started on them over a decade ago, NVIDIA has been able to find a niche that...
33 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2019
Qualcomm Windows on Snapdragon: New 7c & 8c SoCs for sub-$800 Laptops
Last year Qualcomm introduced its flagship Snapdragon 8cx platform for premium always-connected PCs (ACPCs) that packed the best technologies that the company had to offer at the time. Being...
54 by Anton Shilov on 12/6/2019
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 and 765(G): 5G For All in 2020, All The Details
We’re here in Maui for the second day of Qualcomm’s fourth annual Snapdragon summit, for what is probably the most exciting part of the event, as we cover the...
91 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/4/2019
Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Live Blog: Day One
Today is the start of Qualcomm's three-day annual Snapdragon Tech Summit. Day one historically is where Qualcomm goes into detail about how the company is performing, and this year...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2019
Imagination Announces A-Series GPU Architecture: "Most Important Launch in 15 Years"
There are very few companies in the world able to claim a history in the graphics market dating back to the “golden age” of the 90’s. Among the handful...
143 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/2/2019
MediaTek Announces Dimensity 1000 SoC: Back To The High-End With 5G
Today MediaTek is announcing the new Dimensity 1000 SoC – the company’s new 5G flagship SoC for 2019 and early 2020. The announcement really isn’t too much of a...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/26/2019
NUVIA: New Server CPU Startup Going After Intel and AMD
Founded by former senior Apple CPU architects, NUVIA for the first time publicly revealed its existence with the announcement of a successful first investment round. The company broke cover...
41 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/15/2019
MLPerf Releases Official Results For First Machine Learning Inference Benchmark
Since launching their organization early last year, the MLPerf group has been slowly and steadily building up the scope and the scale of their machine learning benchmarks. Intending to...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/6/2019
Samsung Confirms Custom CPU Development Cancellation
The fate of Samsung's custom CPU development efforts has been making the rounds of the rumour mill for almost a month, and now we finally have confirmation from Samsung...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/4/2019
x86 PC Smaller than an iPhone: GIGABYTE's GA-PICO3350 with an Apollo Lake CPU
Hidden underneath the mass of news is a new small Pico-ITX based SoC motherboard from GIGABYTE, the GA-PICO3350. Smaller than the latest iPhone 11 smartphone, the GIGABYTE GA-PICO3350 is...
14 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/24/2019
CEVA Announces NeuPro-S Second-Generation NN IP
It’s been a few years since machine learning and neural networks first started to be the hot new news topic. Ever since then, the market has transformed a lot...
5 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/17/2019
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