ARM, TSMC Announce 7nm Chip Collaboration By Lucian Armasu ARM and TSMC announced a multi-year collaboration to develop 7nm chips, which may arrive even before Intel's own 7nm chips, sometime in 2019.
MIPS-Based CPU, Debian 8 Underpin Russian T-Platforms' All-In-One PC By Lucian Armasu Russian company T-Platforms announced the Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT all-in-one PC powered by the MIPS-based Baikal-T1 chip and running the Debian 8 Linux operating system.
Raspberry Pi 3 Launches With Quad-Core Cortex-A53 CPU, Built-In Wi-Fi And Bluetooth 4.1 By Lucian Armasu
ARM Cortex-A32 To Succeed Cortex-A5 And Cortex-A7 In 32-Bit Wearables, IoT Devices By Lucian Armasu ARM announced the new Cortex-A32 CPU core, which the company claimed is the smallest and lowest-power processor that targets wearables, IoT, and other embedded devices.
MediaTek's New Helio P20 Octa-Core Chip Arrives With Samsung LPDDR4X RAM Support By Lucian Armasu MediaTek announced a new mid-range chip, called the helio P20, which is built on a TSMC's 16FF+ process and supports LPDDR4X RAM and cameras with dual-phase detection autofocus.
NXP LS1012A Is A Tiny IoT Chip With Built-In Security Features By Lucian Armasu NXP announces the new LS1012A 64-bit processor for IoT, which includes an 800 MHz CPU, multiple peripherals, built-in security features, and support for open source firmware such as OpenWrt.
MediaTek Collaborates With Docomo And Orange On 5G, IoT Technologies By Lucian Armasu MediaTek partners with two major wireless operators, Docomo and Orange, to develop 5G technologies and IoT technologies together.
ARM's Real-Time 'Cortex-R8' CPU To Power Next-Generation 5G Modems, Storage Products By Lucian Armasu ARM announced its next-generation real-time processor, the Cortex-R8, which will power LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G modems, as well as future storage products.
Samsung Goes Midrange With Exynos 7 Octa 7870 14nm FinFET Chip By Lucian Armasu Samsung's latest Exynos 7 Octa 7870 is the industry's first mid-range chip built on a 14nm FinFET process with eight 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53 cores and Cat. 6 LTE.
Qualcomm Announces Three New Snapdragon SoCs, Gigabit LTE Modem By Lucian Armasu Qualcomm announced three new mid-range chips, the Snapdragon 425, 435 and 625, as well as a gigabit LTE modem, the Qualcomm X16.
Soft Machines' 'Virtual Cores' Promise 2-4x Performance/Watt Advantage Over Competing CPUs By Lucian Armasu
Why Intel Created The C232 And C236 Workstation Chipsets By Michael Justin Allen Sexton Starting with Skylake, Intel opted to remove support for its Xeon processors on consumer-oriented chipsets and instead created two new chipsets, the C232 and C236.
Samsung Begins Mass Production Of Next-Generation 14nm LPP Chips By Lucian Armasu Samsung announced the mass production of chips that use the company's next-generation 14nm Low-Power Plus process technology.
A Third Type Of Processor For VR/AR: Movidius' Myriad 2 VPU By Seth Colaner, Matthew Humrick Emerging tech such as VR, AR, drones, smart robots and more require vision processing, and Movidius aims to get in on the ground floor.
EU Officially Accuses Qualcomm Of 'Predatory Pricing' To Thwart Rivals By Lucian Armasu The European Commission officially accused Qualcomm of predatory pricing to drive rivals out of the market and illegally paying a customer to exclusively buy its chips.
Qualcomm Explains How Snapdragon 820 Chips Improve Low-Light Photography By Lucian Armasu Qualcomm detailed how its Snapdragon SoCs help improve the image quality of photos taken in low-light conditions.
