SoCs
During the Intel keynote hosted by CEO Pat Gelsinger, he gave the world a glimpse into the Intel Client roadmap until 2026. Meteor Lake launched last year on that roadmap, and Lunar Lake, which we dived into yesterday as Intel disclosed technical details about the upcoming platform. Pat also presented a wafer on stage, Panther Lake, and he gave some additional information about Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake platform, which is expected in 2025. We covered Intel's initial announcement about the Panther Lake platform last year. It is set to be Intel's first client platform using its Intel 18A node. Aside from once again affirming that things are on track for a 2026 launch, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, also confirmed that they will be powering on...
AMD’s Carrizo-L APUs Unveiled: 12-25W Quad Core Puma+
One of the important press releases that came out as a result of the AMD Financial Analyst Day has been some insights into how AMD is approaching the Carrizo...
50 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2015
Qualcomm Reports FY 2015 Q2 Results: Strong Q2 But Lower Forecast For 2015
Qualcomm released their Q2 financial results today, and they had another strong quarter. Revenues increased 8% from Q2 2014, coming in at $6.9 billion. On a GAAP basis, operating...
9 by Brett Howse on 4/22/2015
Imagination Launches New Low Power Wireless IP: Ensigma Whisper
Today Imagination is launching a new set of licensable wireless intellectual property (IP) called 'Ensigma Whisper' to complement its portfolio of other SoC IPs. This announcement gives Imagination a...
9 by Stephen Barrett on 4/15/2015
Braswell: MSI Launches Three Mini-ITX ECO Motherboards
The launch of Braswell, to replace Bay Trail-D, is going to slowly emerge over the next few months. We reported on the initial launch of SKUs as leaked, but...
17 by Ian Cutress on 4/8/2015
Intel Braswell Details Quietly Launched: Cherry Trail and Airmont on 14nm
The 14nm tri-gate for process from Intel has currently been seen in both Core M (Broadwell-Y) and Broadwell-U, with some discussions at Mobile World Congress regarding Atom x5 and...
30 by Ian Cutress on 3/31/2015
GIGABYTE Server Releases ARM Solutions using AppliedMicro and Annapurna Labs SoCs
As Johan points out in his deep dive of ARM in the server market, given a focused strategy new ARM solutions can offer the potential to disrupt some very...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015
HSA Foundation Launches ‘HSA 1.0 Final’ – Architecture, Programmers Reference and Runtime Specifications
Heterogeneous compute has been on the tip of the tongue for many involved in integrating compute platforms, and despite talk and demos regarding hardware conforming to HSA provisional specifications...
27 by Ian Cutress on 3/16/2015
Intel Xeon D Launched: 14nm Broadwell SoC for Enterprise
It is very rare for Intel to come out and announce a new integrated platform. Today this comes in the form of Xeon D, best described as the meeting...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/9/2015
MediaTek at MWC 2015: A72 In Silicon, Multi-Standard Wireless Charging & More
As part of our MWC coverage we had the pleasure to have a guided tour through MediaTek's booth to see what kind of new technologies the company has in...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/8/2015
Intel at MWC 2015: SoFIA, Rockchip, Low Cost Integrated LTE, Atom Renaming and 14nm Cherry Trail
After day zero at Mobile World Congress already boasting some impressive releases, Intel tackles their platform on day one on several different fronts. As part of a pre-briefing, we...
37 by Ian Cutress on 3/2/2015
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 820 and Zeroth Platform
Today, Qualcomm is announcing the new Zeroth Platform, which is enabled by the Snapdragon 820 SoC. While Qualcomm is avoiding any real disclosure of the SoC at this point, we...
36 by Joshua Ho on 3/2/2015
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Sense ID Fingerprint Scanning
In addition to a new SoC, Qualcomm is announcing a new fingerprint sensing technology for Snapdragon-based devices. While most fingerprint sensors currently use high-resolution capacitive sensors, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sense ID...
7 by Joshua Ho on 3/2/2015
Imagination Announces PowerVR G6020 GPU & PowerVR Series 5 Video Encoder
With Mobile World Congress 2015 now in full swing, Imagination Technologies is taking to the show today to announce a couple of new additions to the PowerVR family of...
3 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2015
Samsung Announces the Galaxy S 6 and S 6 Edge
In recent times, Samsung has seen the erosion of their dominance in the Android ecosystem. The reasons for why this is are many, but at least some of the...
206 by Joshua Ho on 3/1/2015
Intel at ISSCC 2015: Reaping the Benefits of 14nm and Going Beyond 10nm
As part of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference every year, Intel brings forward a number of presentations regarding its internal research. The theme this year at ISSCC is ‘Silicon...
55 by Ian Cutress on 2/22/2015
Qualcomm Announces New SoC Lineup, Modem Branding
Qualcomm today announced 4 new additions to its Snapdragon 400 and 600 lineup of SoCs, along with a reshuffle and rebranding of their modem lineup. Let's begin with the...
40 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/18/2015
Samsung Announces 14nm FinFET for Exynos 7
While we've known about the existence of the Exynos 7420 for a while now, we didn't really know what to expect until recently. Today, it seems that Samsung is...
111 by Joshua Ho on 2/16/2015
Understanding Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810: Performance Preview
While we can dance around the issue, it’s impossible to have any real discussion about Snapdragon 810 without addressing the flurry of rumors that have surrounded this SoC. There...
119 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 2/12/2015
ARM A53/A57/T760 investigated - Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Exynos Review
It's been a few months since Josh had the opportunity to review the Note 4. The defining characteristic is that this was the variant with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 SoC...
135 by Andrei Frumusanu & Ryan Smith on 2/10/2015
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