Imagination has announced that it will release the “Warrior” MIPS-based CPU core later this year, with compatibility for both 32 and 64 bit. This isn’t as exciting as it may sound, however, because it seems like ... Read More »
Category Archives: Chips
Feed SubscriptionWhy Nvidia Licensing Its GPU Technology Is Smart
Nvidia has recently announced that they will be licensing their GPU technology to other chip makers. This meant mainly for mobile chip makers, who can use their GPU instead of Imagination or Vivante’s GPU, coupled ... Read More »
TSMC Signs 3-Year Deal with Apple for Its Apple A8 Processor
DigiTimes is reporting that Apple and TSMC may have finally signed the long rumored chip deal between them. This means that Apple will start using Samsung’s foundry less and less, as it switches possibly completely ... Read More »
Crystalwell, Intel’s Great Equalizer
Crystalwell is a level 4 eDRAM cache of 128MB, it is packaged in a MCM format with the Haswell silicon and is connected via an impressively narrow, double-pumped serial interface. Intel’s Haswell normally only supports ... Read More »
Qualcomm Snapdragon S800 to Be Inside the Samsung Galaxy Note 3
This comes as a bit of a surprise, but it seems that Samsung will be using the Qualcomm Snapdragon S800 chip in the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone, later this year, postponing the complete transition ... Read More »
Quad-Core 1.5 Ghz MediaTek MT8125 to Power Many Budget Android Tablets
MediaTek has been quite successful lately with its ARM Cortex A7-based chips, and is now unveiling yet another quad core 1.5 Ghz chip called the MediaTek MT8125. The new Mediatek MT8125, much like the Mediatek MT6572 before ... Read More »
AMD 2013 Product Lineup, Temash, Kabini And Richland.
previous year/backstory early predictions the reveal/ high level overview relevant comparisons conclusion and whats next. Read More »
AMD Temash – The New Low Power APU For Tablets. Is it a Boom or a Bust?
It seems the quad-core AMD Temash A6-1450 APU doesn’t quite fit the tablet profile it was marketed for. Upon initial review it was discovered that the APU has decent performance at the cost of abnormally high power consumption. ... Read More »
Nvidia Tegra 4 Inside Project Shield Scores 32,000 in AnTuTu Benchmark
The Nvidia Tegra 4 chip is a powerful one, and as the AnTuTu benchmark for the Nvidia Project Shield shows it scored an impressive 32,000 score, which is one of the highest scores a mobile ... Read More »
Mediatek MT6572: Dual Core 1.2 Ghz ARM Cortex A7 with Integrated Modem Gets Announced
Mediatek has just introduced a new dual core 1.2 Ghz ARM Cortex A7 chip, with integrated modem, called the Mediatek MT6572. This shows the company is pretty bold about taking over the low-end mobile chip market. ... Read More »