ARM today announced the Cortex A73 processor core and the Mali G71 GPU, which will bring dramatic gaming and virtual reality improvements to next year’s high-end smartphones. ARM says the A73 delivers 30% more sustained power when compared to the A72, in addition to 30% more power efficiency. The processor relies on ARM’s 10nm FinFET […]
Samsung unveiled that its next-generation System on Chip (SoC), the Exynos 8 Octa (8890), will ship with the company’s first-ever custom CPU core built on the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture. The chip will also integrate a latest-generation Release 12 Cat. 12/13 LTE modem, just like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820. “The Exynos 8 Octa is a leading-edge application […]
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 P10, a system-on-a-chip that combines an application processor, graphics processor, and LTE modem. The Helio P10 runs eight 64-bit cores clocked at 2 GHz in coordination with a dual-core 64-bit 700MHz Mali-T860 graphics chip. It supports Cat 6 LTE and carrier aggregation for faster wireless performance. According to MediaTek, the […]
Broadcom today announced a new platform for Android Wear smartwatches that promises to deliver major gains in battery life. The Broadcom wearable system-on-a-chip includes a quad-core Cortex A7 application processor and 2G/3G modem support. It can be paired with Broadcom’s Bluetooth 4.2 and WiFi combo chip, as well as a GPS SoC with integrated sensor […]
Intel said it has forged an agreement with Tsinghua Unigroup to co-develop processors for mobile devices. Tsinghua runs both Spreadtrum and RDA, which are fabless semiconductor companies that develop 2G-, 3G-, and 4G-enabled mobile chipset platforms for smart phones, feature phones, and other consumer electronics products. In particular, Spreadtrum will create and sell a family […]
Today, Qualcomm is announcing a new low-end SoC called Snapdragon 210 that’s meant to become the successor of the older Snapdragon 200 for sub-$100 smartphones, with one key feature: LTE-A support. Selling chips with integrated LTE modems has been one of the major factors in Qualcomm’s success over the past few years. By integrating […]
MediaTek has taken the wraps off its newest flagship processor chip for high-end phones. The MT6795 is a SoC (system on chip) combining an LTE radio with a 64-bit, 8-core processor at speeds up to 2.2 GHz. It supports displays up to 1600 x 2560. It also supports display refresh rate of 120 Hz for […]
Huawei is catching up with Samsung and MediaTek, by producing its first octa-core processor. The Kirin 920 28nm system on chip will use a total of eight cores, consisting of four Cortex-A15 cores, clocked between 1.7GHz and 2.0GHz, and a second set of four Cortex-A7 cores, running between 1.3GHz and 1.6GHz, with the processor said […]
ARM today announced a new integrated processor platform for smartphones targeting the middle of the market. The platform is based on the ARM Cortex-A17 processor, which ARM says marks a 60% performance improvement over the Cortex-A9, and supports ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture for power efficiency gains. The A17 processor is matched with ARM’s Mali-T720 GPU for […]
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