Apple Announces the M2 SoC: Bigger and Better
Apple has announced their M2 chip at WWDC 22, and this time it's a new design - not a fusion of two existing chip designs as we saw with...
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Uri Frank Joins Google To Design New Silicon
Uri Frank most recently lead Intel's Core processor development from 2016 to 2020 as VP and Director of Product Development for the Platform Engineering Group. He has very recently left...
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Centaur Announces SoC with New x86 CPU Core and Integrated AI Coprocessor
Austin, Texas based Centaur Technology (which is a subsidiary of VIA Technologies) has announced a new x86 processor that they claim to be "the industry’s first high-performance x86 SoC with...
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ARM Introduces Cortex-A77, Mali-G77, and New ML Unit
It can be generally said that most humans have a bad tendency to slow down or to delay innovation when they are at the pinnacle of their success and not challenged by…
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Apple’s special sauce, the A12X SoC
Apple made a lot of claims with their new USB-C carrying iPad Pro and the A12X inside of it, stating it offer 90% better multicore performance of the previous A10X as well…
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Apple Announces iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR Smartphones with 7nm A12 Bionic Processor
Apple’s event today included expected (and previously leaked) iPhone announcements for the faster “S” variant of the iPhone X, as well as a new, larger iPhone XS Max, and finally the...
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Huawei Announces Kirin 980: Is the World’s First 7nm SoC Passing Snapdragon?
Huawei has introduced their subsidiary HiSilicon’s newest mobile processor in the Kirin 980, which, along with Huawei's claim of the world's first commercial 7nm SoC, is the first SoC to use Arm…
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AMD builds semi-custom SoC with Zen and Vega for Chinese gaming market
This story originally appeared on ShroutResearch.com. Continuing down the path with its semi-custom design division, AMD today announced a partnership with Chinese company Zhongshan Subor to design and build a...
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Sapphire Shows Off New 5×5 Ryzen V1000 Platform for Embedded Systems
Sapphire Technologies is now partnering with AMD to offer up a new small(ish) 5"x5" form factor system for embedded applications featuring AMD's Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC APUs. The Sapphire FS-FP5V...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform Performance Preview
The Snapdragon 845 is Qualcomm’s latest flagship mobile platform, officially announced on December 6 and known officially as the SDM845 (moving from the MSMxxxx...
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CES 2018: Qualcomm Introduces QCC5100 Series Low Power Bluetooth SoC
Qualcomm has announced a new low-power Bluetooth SoC with the QCC5100 series, a single-chip solution targeting wireless earbuds and other audio devices with the promise of longer battery life and better audio…
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Qualcomm Introduces Snapdragon 636 Platform with 8-Core Kryo CPU
Qualcomm's latest mobile platform is the Snapdragon 636, positioned (at least numerically) between the Snapdragon 630 and 660 introduced earlier this year, and offering a very impressive set of features for mid-range...
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Huawei Announces Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro Smartphones
Huawei has announced the successor(s) to the Mate 9 smartphone with the new Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, which feature a new "3D Glass Body" industrial design along with the new Kirin 970…
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Apple A11 Performance Review with the iPhone 8 Plus: Taking on Desktop?
With a physical design that is largely unchanged other than the addition of a glass back for wireless charging support, and featuring incremental improvements to the camera system most notably with…
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ASUS’ Tinker can be tailored for Soldiers and Spies
ASUS' take on single board computers is the new Tinker Board, powered by a 1.8 GHz Cortex-A17 based Rockchip RK3288 and a 600MHz Mali-T760 GPU which share 2 GB of LPDDR3. Storage…
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Today’s episode features special guest Denver Jetson
Amongst the furor of the Ryzen launch the NVIDIA's new Jetson TX2 SoC was quietly sent out to reviewers and today the NDA expired so we can see how it performs. There…
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AMD Prepares Zen-Based “Naples” Server SoC For Q2 Launch
Over the summer, AMD introduced its Naples platform which is the server-focused implementation of the Zen microarchitecture in a SoC (System On a Chip) package. The company showed off a...
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The Huawei Mate 9 Review: Leica and Bifrost
The Mate 9 is the current version of Huawei’s signature 6-inch smartphone, building on last year’s iteration with the company’s new Kirin 960 SoC (featuring ARM's next-generation Bifrost GPU architecture), improved...
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