MIPS-Powered Chromebooks Are Coming By Lucian Armasu published 23 March 15 Code commits show that the launch of a MIPS-powered Chromebook is imminent.
Most Of Apple's A9/A9X Chips To Be Manufactured On TSMC's 16nm FinFET Process By Lucian Armasu published 13 March 15 Most of Apple's A9 and A9X chips to continue being manufactured by TSMC rather than Samsung.
Imagination Already Ported Vulkan API To Its PowerVR GPUs By Lucian Armasu published 5 March 15 Imagination talks about porting Vulkan to its PowerVR GPUs at GDC and about what the new API means for game developers.
Samsung Finds New Chip Partner In MediaTek By Lucian Armasu published 5 March 15 Samsung and MediaTek form a new chip partnership, according to Taiwan media reports.
Snapdragon 820 To Feature 'Kryo' CPU Core And 'Zeroth' Cognitive Computing Platform By Lucian Armasu published 2 March 15 Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 820 processor with next-generation Kryo CPU core and a brand-new Zeroth cognitive computing platform.
Mediatek Combines All Three Wireless Charging Standards Into One ASIC By Lucian Armasu published 2 March 15 Mediatek announces multi-mode MT3188 ASIC that will implement all three wireless charging standards: Qi, PMA and Rezence.
Qualcomm's Sense ID Fingerprint Scanning Could Outclass Apple's Touch ID By Lucian Armasu published 2 March 15 Qualcomm announced ultrasonic fingerprint scanning technology that's even more advanced than Apple's Touch ID.
Qualcomm Launching Snapdragon 618, 620 Chips Based On Cortex-A72; Two New Low-End Chips, Too By Lucian Armasu published 18 February 15 Qualcomm announced four new 64-bit chips for 2015.
Report: LG Building Next-Generation Chip Based On Cortex-A72 Cores By Lucian Armasu published 17 February 15 LG is working on high-end chip with Cortex-A72 CPU cores.
Samsung Mass Producing 14nm FinFET Chips By Lucian Armasu published 16 February 15 Samsung announced that it has begun the mass production of chips on its next-generation 14nm FinFET process.
ARM's Mali-T880 GPU To Be 80 Percent Faster Than Mali-T760, Arrives In 2016 By Lucian Armasu published 16 February 15 ARM gave more details about its upcoming high-performance Mali-T880 GPU.
Samsung To Create Exynos Chips With Integrated Modems By Lucian Armasu published 13 February 15 Samsung is working on single-chip solutions that come with integrated modems. This could help the company reduce its reliance on Qualcomm even further.
Nvidia Tegra Sales Soar, But The Chip's Future In The Mobile Market Is Uncertain By Lucian Armasu published 12 February 15 Nvidia saw a strong fiscal 2015 with all of the company's divisions enjoying increases in revenue and profits.
ARM Sees Strong Growth Thanks To High 64-Bit ARMv8 Architecture Adoption By Lucian Armasu published 12 February 15 ARM showed strong growth in the last quarter thanks to high adoption of the new ARMv8 architecture and its new CPU cores such as Cortex A57 and Cortex A53.
Samsung Heats Up The Competition With Two New Leaked Exynos 7 Chips By Lucian Armasu published 12 February 15 A job description on Linkedin shows the existence of the Exynos 7890 and Exynos 7650 chips from Samsung.
ARM To Integrate PolarSSL Crypto Into mbed OS-Powered IoT Devices By Lucian Armasu published 9 February 15 ARM bought the company behind the PolarSSL crypto library.
Qualcomm To Pay Record $1 Billion Fine To Chinese Government In Antitrust Case By Lucian Armasu published 9 February 15 China's antitrust agency fined Qualcomm $1 billion and forced it to lower its licensing prices in the country.
Nvidia Newest Samsung Foundry Customer For 14nm Process, After Apple And Qualcomm By Lucian Armasu published 3 February 15 Nvidia joins Samsung's 14nm process club, following Apple and Qualcomm.
Mediatek Launches 64-Bit Octo-Core Chip With Integrated LTE By Lucian Armasu published 29 January 15 Mediatek unveiled the MT6753, a 64-bit eight-core Cortex A53 chip with LTE.
Fixed Or Not, The 20nm Snapdragon 810 Will Have To Compete With The 14nm Exynos 7 By Lucian Armasu published 27 January 15 The 20nm Snapdragon 810's main problem may not be that it overheats, but that it overheats trying to achieve the performance of the 14nm Exynos 7.