Samsung plans to use ARM’s graphic processing unit designs in its mobile devices for years to come. The company today signed a long-term agreement to license ARM’s GPU designs, including the Mali-T820, T830, T860, T880, and all future Mali GPUs. Samsung already uses ARM’s GPUs in its system-on-a-chip designs and will now continue to do […]
MediaTek today announced the Helio X20, a mobile application processor that packages 10 cores together in three separate clusters. Many of today’s high-end processors package eight cores in two clusters. MediaTek designed the Helio X20 for high-end smartphones. The chip features two ARM Cortex A72 cores at 2.5 GHz, four Cortex A53 cores at 2.0 […]
ARM has revealed the Cortex A72, its next-generation CPU core for high-end processors. The A72 builds on the foundation laid by the Cortex A57 core, ARM’s current high-end processor. With the A72, ARM focused on improving speeds and power efficiency, while decreasing the die size. The core can be manufactured using 14 or 16 nanometer […]
MediaTek is slowly introducing a new brand name for its mobile processors. Moving forward most of its smartphone and tablet chips will be branded under the name Helio. The company showed off the first two such processors this week, the Heiio X and Helio P series. The Helio X is being marketed as an “extreme […]
Qualcomm today announced a series of new application processors for mobile devices, including the Snapdragon 620, 618, 425, and 415. Both the Snapdragon 600 series and 400 series receive new features previously reserved for higher-class processors. For example, the 620 jumps to 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 CPUs and Cortex-A53 cores, while the 618 runs two […]
Samsung today announced it has begun mass producing a new mobile application processor based on its 14nm process. Compared to Samsung’s 20nm process, the 14nm process delivers 20% faster speeds, 35% less power consumption, and 30% productivity gain. The new process makes use of a three-dimensional FinFET structure on transistors. Samsung said the 14nm process […]
ARM said it has acquired Offspark, a Dutch company that makes security software for the internet of things. ARM designs mobile processors, but also has an IoT platform called mbed. ARM will add Offspark’s PolarSSL encryption software to its own platform. According to ARM, many of the companies making IoT equipment already use ARM processors. […]
Qualcomm won’t have the Snapdragon 810 ready to ship in devices until this spring (likely to appear in the Galaxy S6 and possibly the HTC M9), but it does have a “Mobile Development Platform Smartphone” (MDP/S) based on the chip that’s ready to go. A Canadian company called Intrinsyc already has it available for $800. […]
ARM today revealed three new GPUs that target high-end and mid-range smartphones. The Mali T800 series promises to deliver better multimedia performance as well as increased efficiency for all levels of hardware. The Mali-T820 is meant for volume smartphones and offers a 40% boost in performance compared to its predecessor. The Mali-T830 has a bit […]
LG today announced the Nuclun, its first application processor for smartphones and tablets. The Nuclun is an eight-core chip with two banks of four cores each. It uses ARM’s big.LITTLE configuration with four 1.5GHz Cortex A15s for heavy lifting and four 1.2GHz Cortex A7s for power sipping. The Nuclun supports LTE Cat. 6, which boasts […]
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