Qualcomm Seeks To Halt US Import, Sales Of Apple iPhone By Kevin Carbotte The legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple is heating up. Qualcomm is seeking to block importation and sales of Apple iPhone products for infringing on six Qualcomm technology patents.
Imagination's New Low-Power Series8XE GPU Doubles Fillrate By Matt Humrick, Chris Schodt Imagination Technology announced the PowerVR Series8XE at MWC 2016, a low-power GPU targeting low-cost smartphones, wearables, televisions, IoT devices, and other embedded applications.
Huawei Mate 8, Kirin 950, Cortex-A72 Benchmarks By Matt Humrick We test Huawei's Mate 8 smartphone to see how its Kirin 950 SoC performs. This is also our first look at ARM's Cortex-A72 CPU core and new Mali-T880 GPU. How does A72 compare to the A57 and Snapdragon 820's Kryo cores?
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.
ARM Cortex-A72 Architecture Deep Dive By Matt Humrick ARM's Cortex-A72 CPU adds power and performance optimizations to the previous A57 design. Here's an in-depth look at the changes to each stage in the pipeline, from better branch prediction to next-gen execution units.
Snapdragon 820 Performance Preview By Matt Humrick In this performance preview, we subject Snapdragon 820, including Qualcomm’s first custom-designed 64-bit CPU, Kryo, and new Adreno 530 GPU, to a battery of benchmark tests.
Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 820 Smartphone SoC At NYC Event By Michael Justin Allen Sexton Qualcomm hosted its Snapdragon 820 event in New York City today to discuss the new features coming in its new SoC.
iPhone 6s: Samsung And TSMC A9 SoCs Tested By Matt Humrick The A9 SoC inside the iPhone 6s comes from two different vendors (Samsung and TSMC) using two different FinFET processes (14nm and 16nm, respectively). We test both versions to see if there's any power or performance differences.
Snapdragon 820 Will Support 600 Mbps Cat 12 LTE, 802.11ad Wi-Fi, LTE-U By Lucian Armasu Qualcomm announced new and improved wireless technologies for its flagship chip, the Snapdragon 820, which should arrive next year. These include LTE Cat 12, 802.11ac MU-MIMO, 802.11ad, and LTE-U.
Apple Introduces A9, A9X SoCs For Its Most Powerful Mobile Devices By Lucian Armasu Apple announced its most powerful custom-designed chips yet, the A9 for the iPhone 6S and the more powerful A9X for the newly launched iPad Pro.
How We Test Smartphones And Tablets By Matt Humrick Today, we outline the strict testing procedures used to obtain accurate data and discuss each test that we perform on smartphones and tablets.
Helio X20 Mediatek Wants To Be Chip Powerhouse; 20nm Process Slows It Down By Lucian Armasu Mediatek handed out more details about its upcoming flagship chip, Helio X20, which is also the world's first deca-core and tri-cluster CPU.
Samsung's New $14 Billion Chip Plant To Manufacture DRAM, Processors In 2017 (Updated) By Lucian Armasu Samsung to start production of DRAM and processors in its new $14 billion South Korean chip plant in the first half of 2017.
Why Intel Keeps Losing Money In Mobile (Op-Ed) By Lucian Armasu Three main reasons why Intel keeps losing money in mobile
Intel Makes Splash In China With Atom x3 (SoFIA) LTE-TDD, IoT Expansion, New Intel RealSense Camera For Smartphones By Seth Colaner
Report: Samsung To Build Apple's A9 Chips By Lucian Armasu Bloomberg reported that Apple will use Samsung's foundry after all to build its A9-series chips.
