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ARM has announced a new mid-range core that’s supposed to be the successor of Cortex A12, called Cortex A17. The naming is a little confusing, because it implies it will be better than Cortex A15, ... Read More »
ARM’s Cortex A17 is a big mistake
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AMD posted solid Q413 results, but it needs to focus on HSA to keep the momentum going
AMD may have just been saved by the success of the PS4 and Xbox One consoles, if their Q4 2013 results are any indication. Before this, the situation was looking increasingly more dire, and many ... Read More »
Going down: Intel to lay off 5,400 employees this year
Intel has had a good ride for 3 or 4 decades, but their best days may be behind them. Paul Otellini must’ve seen this coming, which is why he couldn’t even wait to quit the ... Read More »
Nvidia’s 64-bit Tegra 5 with the Denver CPU Core and Kepler Graphics Could Be Arriving in 2014
A new tip says that Nvidia may actually be the first to launch a 64-bit ARMv8-based chip for Android devices in 2014. This is surprising because Nvidia only showed us that the Denver/Maxwell-based chip would arrive chip ... Read More »
TSMC Shows Path to 16nm FinFET. Great News for AMD and ARM Chip Makers
ARM chip makers (and I hope AMD, too, but they’ll probably wait another year to adopt this) will finally catch-up to Intel (more or less) in process technology when they move to 14/16nm FinFET, especially ... Read More »
Future Samsung phones will have 64-bit CPUs too, says CEO
“Not in the shortest time. But yes, our next smartphones will have 64-bit processing functionality” Samsung’s mobile business chief Shin Jong-kyun told the Korea Times on Wednesday. As you may also have heard, Apple has recently ... Read More »
IBM, Nvidia, Google and Others Form OpenPOWER Consortium
IBM used to dominate the super-computer market decades ago, but in the past 2 decades or so, Intel has kept disrupting it, and eating away its market, by coming from below, with cheaper prices, and ... Read More »
3 Ghz ARM Processors to Arrive Next Year Thanks to 20nm Process
Both TSMC and Global Foundries are expected to make 20nm ARM chips next year, which will help the chips to achieve 3 Ghz clock speed at the same power consumption, or cut power consumption by 25% ... Read More »
Mediatek MT6592 to Have 8 ARM Cortex A7 Cores at 2 Ghz Each
Mediatek is rumored to launch a new 28nm chip based on ARM Cortex A7 cores, that will be clocked at 2 Ghz each, and named the Mediatek MT6592. With this chip, Mediatek is taking its battle ... Read More »
Mediatek Gains Market Share for Low-End Chips, while Qualcomm Declines
Qualcomm, like Nvidia and Samsung, don’t seem to care that much about the very low-end of the mobile chip market, which is why this leaves the door wide open for companies like Mediatek and Spreadtrum ... Read More »
