Qualcomm today said its next flagship mobile platform will be a system-on-a-chip built using a 7nm process. The SoC can be paired with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X50 5G modem. Combined, the 7nm SoC and X50 will help phone makers create the first wave of flagship 5G devices. Qualcomm says this combo will usher in more intuitive on-device […]
MediaTek has announced the Helio A22, the first in the company’s new Helio A series system-on-a-chip designs. The Helio A series slots in below the Helio P series and will bring premium features down to mid-market devices. MediaTek says the A22 is built using its 12nm FinFET process with multiple cores able to fine-tune processing and […]
ARM today announced a new series of processors cores for mobile devices that it says will increase performance without impacting battery life. The new Cortex A76 processor core is built using a 7nm process that ARM says delivers a 35% boost in speed and a 40% improvement in efficiency when compared to its previous 10nm […]
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 710, the first system-on-a-chip in its 700 series mobile platform. The 710 finds space between the Snapdragon 600 series and Snapdragon 800 series for devices that need to balance performance and cost. The 710 is based on Qualcomm’s Kryo 360 CPU, with six cores using a 10nm process. Two 2.2 […]
Samsung today announced the Exynos 9810, its flagship processor for the year, a chip that will likely form the heart of the company’s Galaxy S series devices in a few months. The 9810 is built on Samsung’s second-generation 10-nanometer FinFET process, which gives it a an small increase in speed and efficiency. Specifically, the 9810 has […]
Samsung updated its Exynos 9 Series processor and also debuted a fresh camera sensor for smartphones. The Exynos 9 Series 9810 is a flagship-class application processor built on Samsung’s second-generation 10nm FinFET process. It uses 10LPP (Low Power Plus) technology in conjunction with 3D transistors to improve speeds by about 10%, or power efficiency by about […]
At an event in San Jose on Wednesday, Qualcomm and partners officially announced that its Centriq 2400 server processor based on the Arm-architecture was shipping to commercial clients. This launch is of note as it becomes the highest-profile and most partner-lauded Arm-based server CPU and platform to be released. The Centriq is built specifically for […]
Huawei at IFA announced its next flagship mobile SoC, the Kirin 970. Huawei claims the chip is the first to have a dedicated co-processor for AI, which it calls an NPU (Neural-network Processing Unit). The NPU allows AI tasks such as image recognition to run 5-25 times faster than chips without an NPU, and with […]
Samsung today announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in its Austin chip facility during the first half of 2017. The company said the investment will improve its ability to manufacture system-on-a-chip products for mobile and electronic devices. Growing demand for its SoC products are necessitating the investment. The plant has been in Austin […]
Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon 821, an update to its flagship Snapdragon 820 processor. The new SoC primarily boosts the performance of the silicon with higher clock speed and other refinements. For example, the 821 carries over the 820’s Kryo quad-core configuration, but boosts clock speeds from a maximum of 2.15 Ghz to 2.4 GHz. […]
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