Smartphone Processors

Imagination and SELTECH have worked together to support the FEXEROX hypervisors on MIPS microcontrollers to enable increased security for embedded systems.

A new German company called Linshof announced the i8 smartphone, which comes with an octa-core processor, 3 GB of RAM, LTE and 80 GB of storage. It will cost only $380.

Intrinsyc launches a "Qualcomm Mobile Development Platform Smartphone" for $800. Developers can now start to optimize their apps for Qualcomm's 64-bit chip.

Three theories for the merger of Intel's mobile and PC businesses: hiding losses, manufacturing synergy and the (eventual) discarding of the mobile chips.

Meizu announces the Meizu MX4 Pro smartphone with a 5.5" screen, Exynos 5430 processor and secure fingerprint scanning technology built in-house.

Marvell begins the assault on Mediatek with two 64-bit chips that also come with integrated LTE modems.

TSMC reached the risk production milestone with its second generation FinFET-based process, the 16FF+. Mass production of chips based on this process is expected to begin mid-2015.

The Nexus 9 is now ready for purchase, but available units may be hard to find in the Google's Play Store. The tablets that have been pre-ordered will start shipping today, as well.

LG enters the mobile chip war with its own Cortex A7/Cortex A15 NUCLUN application processor with built-in LTE Cat 6.