SoCs
As Qualcomm prepares for the mid-year launch of their forthcoming Snapdragon X SoCs for PCs, and the eagerly anticipated Oryon CPU cores within, the company is finally shoring up their official product plans, and releasing some additional technical details in the process. Thus far the company has been demonstrating their Snapdragon X Elite SoC in its highest-performing, fully-enabled configuration. But the retail Snapdragon X Elite will not be a single part; instead, Qualcomm is preparing a whole range of chip configurations for various price/performance tiers in the market. Altogether, there will be 3 Snapdragon X Elite SKUs that differ in CPU and GPU performance. As well, the company is introducing a second Snapdragon X tier, Snapdragon X Plus, for those SKUs positioned below the Elite...
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
ARM Expects ~1B Entry Level Smartphones in 2018, $20 Smartphones Coming This Year
When we first started covering mobile, nearly every silicon vendor I spoke with issued the same statement: eventually, all phones are smartphones. Continued scaling on process technology, combined continued...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
ARM's Impact on the Chip Market: 100M China-Designed SoCs Shipped in 2013
At its second ever Tech Day, ARM shared a pretty interesting slide about its impact on the mobile SoC market. ARM's business model allows for pretty much anyone to...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
ARM Shares Updated Cortex A53/A57 Performance Expectations
With the first Cortex A53 based SoCs due to ship in the coming months, and Cortex A57 based designs to follow early next year, ARM gave us a quick...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
AMD is also working on a new 64-bit x86 Core
Jim Keller joined Mark Papermaster on stage at AMD's Core Innovation Update press conference and added a few more details to AMD's K12 announcement. Keller stressed AMD's expertise in...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces K12 Core: Custom 64-bit ARM Design in 2016
In 2015 AMD will launch project SkyBridge, a pair of pin-compatible ARM and x86 based SoCs. Leveraging next generation Puma+ x86 cores or ARM's Cortex A57 cores, these SoCs...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces Project SkyBridge: Pin-Compatible ARM and x86 SoCs in 2015, Android Support
This morning AMD decided to provide an update on its CPU core/SoC roadmap, particularly as it pertains to the ARM side of the business. AMD already committed to releasing...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture & Performance Preview
When AMD launched its Kabini and Temash APUs last year it delivered a compelling cost/performance story, but its power story wasn’t all that impressive. Despite being built out of...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/29/2014
The Desktop Kabini Review Part 1: AMD Athlon 5350 (AM1) Tested
Last month AMD announced their Socketed AM1 Kabini platform to focus on the low-end desktop market where low cost, low power and upgradability are important factors for system integrators...
126 by Ian Cutress on 4/9/2014
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015
Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/7/2014
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