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Samsung Relaunches Note 4’s Exynos 5433 As 64-Bit Exynos 7 OctaOct 16, 2014 - in News
Samsung announced its first official 64-bit chip: the Exynos 7 Octa. The SoC includes a big.Little CPU made out of four Cortex A57 cores and four Cortex A53 cores, and a Mali-T760 GPU. The chip also exists in the Note 4 under the Exynos 5433 name.
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Samsung To Ship 14nm FinFET Chips For Apple, Qualcomm And AMD Late Next YearOct 2, 2014 - in News
Samsung takes the lead on the next-generation FinFET process among non-Intel foundries, and the company already has customers such as Apple, Qualcomm and AMD ready to ship processors built on its new 14nm FinFET process.
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TSMC, ARM Announce First 64-Bit big.LITTLE Chip Built On 16nm FinFET ProcessSep 30, 2014 - in News
TSMC and ARM announce the first big.LITTLE implementation on the 16FF (16nm FinFET) process. Some chip companies should start shipping products using it as early as next year.
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Intel Tries To Conquer Mobile Market By Investing In Chinese Chip MakersSep 26, 2014 - in News
Intel signs deal with two more fabless chip makers from China that will make SoCs based on Intel's Atom CPU IP and its 3G and 4G technology. Intel hopes this will make the x86 platform more popular for mobile.
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More Impressive Tech From Qualcomm Uplinq 2014Sep 22, 2014 - in News
With the Internet of Things, Qualcomm sees great potential powering growth in both the abundance and intelligence of devices at the network edge.
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Qualcomm At The Network EdgeSep 19, 2014 - in News
Qualcomm wants to expand beyond just smartphones and tablets into robotics, augmented reality glasses, edge computing and the Internet of Everything.
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Intel Makes Play For LTE Modem Market With XMM 7260, Now Commercially AvailableSep 17, 2014 - in News
Intel announced it received certification for its new XMM 7262 LTE modem on China Mobile and that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Alpha device will be using its XMM 7260 LTE-Advanced modem.
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64-Bit Exynos 5433 Confirmed, Will Only Run In 32-Bit Mode On Galaxy Note 4Sep 16, 2014 - in News
Source code leak confirms the 64-bit Exynos 5433 chip inside the international version of Galaxy Note 4; however, the chip will only run in the 32-bit mode initially.
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Qualcom's New Snapdragon 210 Brings LTE-A To Sub-$100 SmartphonesSep 10, 2014 - in News
Qualcomm hopes to bring LTE to every smartphone user, from the lowest end of the mobile market, with its new Snapdragon 210 processor.
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Intel Makes Mobile Play With Android Reference Design At IDF 2014Sep 10, 2014 - in News
After years of struggling in the mobile market, Intel is unveiling a new method to attract OEMs to its chips: a reference design for Android that gets updated for two years, and within two weeks of Google releasing a new version of Android.
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Apple Beefs Up, Tunes Up iPhone HardwareSep 9, 2014 - in News
Today Apple finally unveiled the iPhone 6, the rumored iPhone phablet, aka the iPhone 6 Plus, and the long-awaited Apple smartwatch, aka Apple Watch.
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Imagination's MIPS64-Based I6400 CPU Takes On The 64-Bit CompetitionSep 2, 2014 - in News
Imagination announces its first MIPS64 CPU core for mobile, and hopes to beat ARM and Intel at the mid-range of the market with significantly higher performance per cost.
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HTC Desire 820 May Switch Its Processor From Snapdragon 615 To The Lower-End Snapdragon 410Aug 29, 2014 - in News
HTC may be replacing the mid-range Snapdragon 615 octa-core chip with a quad-core Snapdragon 410 inside its upcoming desire 820 device.
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HTC Brings ARMv8 ISA To The Low-End With The Desire 510 SmartphoneAug 27, 2014 - in News
HTC begins its 64-bit assault on the market with the low-cost Desire 510, which also comes with an integrated LTE modem.
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Qualcomm Becomes Target Of EU Anti-Trust RegulatorsAug 26, 2014 - in News
Four-year-old Icera anti-trust accusation comes back to haunt Qualcomm. This time the EU Commission takes the bite and prepares to open a full anti-trust investigation into Qualcomm once the summer is over.
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Apple And Nvidia To Get 16nm FinFET Chips From TSMC One Quarter Earlier Next YearAug 26, 2014 - in News
TSMC's much anticipated 16nm FinFET process is about to land a quarter earlier next year, and Apple and Nvidia are going to be the first major chip makers to benefit from the new process node.
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Analyst: Intel Should Buy An ARM Chip CompanyAug 21, 2014 - in News
Intel's entrance into the mobile market has been glacially slow so far, and one analyst thinks the best way to change that would be for Intel to buy an ARM chip company like Mediatek.
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International Version Of Galaxy Note 4 To One-Up US Model With 64-Bit ChipAug 20, 2014 - in News
Early benchmarks of the International Exynos 5433-based version of the Galaxy Note 4 and the Snapdragon 805-based model coming to the US, show that the 64-bit Exynos chip outperforms Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805.
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Leaked Qualcomm Roadmap Shows Mid-Range and High-End ARMv8 (64-Bit) Chips Will Arrive In 2015Aug 19, 2014 - in News
Qualcomm's leaked roadmap shows that its mid-range and high-end 64-bit processors will only begin shipping with devices next year, potentially leaving them behind the competition.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (Cortex A57) Appears In BenchmarkAug 15, 2014 - in News
The Snapdragon 810, Qualcomm's first high-end 64-bit chip based on the new ARMv8 instruction set, gets outed by a recent AnTuTu benchmark.
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Samsung Moves Exynos 5 Octa (5430) To 20 nm, Focuses On Reducing Power ConsumptionAug 14, 2014 - in News
In an effort to make its own chips more efficient, Samsung delays big performance increases but significantly cuts down power consumption for the new Exynos 5430 as it moves to the 20 nm manufacturing process.
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Imagination's Quest To Provide A Third Major Mobile PlatformAug 8, 2014 - in Reviews
By acquiring MIPS Technologies, Imagination hopes to build a strong platform to compete against the incumbent ARM and daunting challenger Intel on a more equal footing. We go through the company's portfolio to determine its strengths and opportunities.
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ZTE's Grand S Pro Brings Processing Power on a BudgetJun 13, 2014 - in News
ZTE has announced its most powerful budget-friendly smartphone yet: the Grand S Pro, featuring a 2.3 GHz Snapdragon SoC, and priced at just $250!
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Nvidia CEO Admits Tegra 4i Didn't Pan Out as HopedMay 20, 2014 - in News
Nvidia's CEO talks about Tegra 4i, a $3,000 graphics card, and more.
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Nvidia Giving Away 50 Jetson TK1 Developer KitsApr 25, 2014 - in News
Nvidia has launched a contest that provides 50 winners with a Jetson TK1 developer kit.
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LG Could Make its Own Chips for Smart, Mobile DevicesApr 18, 2014 - in News
LG's "Odin" chip may make an appearance before June.
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OnePlus One SoC Upgraded by 'One' to Snapdragon 801Apr 11, 2014 - in News
OnePlus has changed the One's SoC to the 2.5 GHz Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC, Qualcomm's fastest.
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Qualcomm Prepping Snapdragon 810, 808 ProcessorsApr 7, 2014 - in News
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chips should appear in devices in the first half of 2015.
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Benchmark Cheaters Galaxy S4, Note 3 Absolved in 4.4 UpdateApr 1, 2014 - in News
Futuremark re-lists Galaxy S4 numbers in its benchmark database.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Slows Down Under Heavy Load in 4.4Apr 1, 2014 - in News
Samsung's Android 4.4 update for the Galaxy S4 introduces aggressive CPU throttling.