Smartphone Processors

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 Technology announced the PowerVR Series8XE at MWC 2016, a low-power GPU targeting low-cost smartphones, wearables, televisions, IoT devices, and other embedded applications.

Samsung announced the mass production of chips that use the company's next-generation 14nm Low-Power Plus process technology.

Qualcomm hosted its Snapdragon 820 event in New York City today to discuss the new features coming in its new SoC.

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.

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 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.

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 to start production of DRAM and processors in its new $14 billion South Korean chip plant in the first half of 2017.

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Bloomberg reported that Apple will use Samsung's foundry after all to build its A9-series chips.

Code commits show that the launch of a MIPS-powered Chromebook is imminent.

Most of Apple's A9 and A9X chips to continue being manufactured by TSMC rather than Samsung.

Imagination talks about porting Vulkan to its PowerVR GPUs at GDC and about what the new API means for game developers.

Samsung and MediaTek form a new chip partnership, according to Taiwan media reports.