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 »
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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 »
Imagination Brings “Warrior” MIPS CPU to the Mobile Architecture War
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 »
Intel Changes Its CEO, As It Suffers a Chip Commoditization Crisis
About a week from now, Intel is going to have a new CEO, Brian Krzanich, which was their former COO, to replace the current CEO Paul Otellini. It seems to me Otellini is getting out ... Read More »
AMD – Steady as She Goes
It’s no secret that AMD is not doing very well lately, and it hasn’t done that great over the past few years either, but it looks like the restructuring helped the company minimize its losses ... Read More »
Why Intel’s Decline Is Now Imminent
Intel earnings have just been published for the last quarter, and they are not looking too good. Their profit declined. The worst part about it is that it will continue to decline, because Intel faces ... Read More »
ARM for Linux Will Take Over the Industry, Says ARM
According to ARM, server vendors are looking to standardize across one CPU architecture and one operating system, and those are ARM, and Linux, respectively. ARM for Linux is set to become very popular in the ... Read More »
AMD Sees the End of Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law may soon be coming to an end, according to AMD. It’s already been slowing down for the past few years, and it’s getting increasingly more difficult to move to new process shrinks, and ... Read More »
Mozilla to Work on Servo, Next-Gen Browser Rendering Engine for ARM and Android
Because of Webkit’s increasing monopoly in the browser rendering engine space, Gecko has been falling behind lately, and perhaps most importantly, it’s failing to excite open source developers, to participate in developing it. That’s where ... Read More »
ARM and TSMC Make the First 20nm FinFET Cortex A57 Chip
ARM and TSMC has collaborated on making the first 20nm FinFET Cortex A57 chip, even though the first time we were supposed to see FinFET chips from TSMC was at the 16nm process. FinFET This ... Read More »