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Snapdragon Rival Coming to LG

by Tom Allen

Phone Arena claims that LG is to back away from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip in favour of its own device. The chip will be a quad-core ARM unit, with four Cortex-A72 cores and four …

Valens and Avago Technologies have collaborated on an HDBaseT fibre-transmission solution that can send HDBaseT video up to 800m. It is based on Valens’ Colligo chipsets and Avago’s AFBR-709HDZ transceivers.

Tags:Chips| Fibre optics| HDBaseT| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08

ARM Reaches 120fps UltraHD on Mobile

by Tom Allen

ARM has IP for a new processor called the Cortex-A72, for mobile SoC, which can support UltraHD at 120fps. 10 vendors, including HiSilicon, MediaTek and Rockchip, have already licensed the processor. The Cortex-A72 is based …

MediaTek Touches 150Mbps Down

by Tom Allen

Mediatek is building a 64-bit octa-core smartphone chip, as it competes against Qualcomm. The MT6752 will be in smartphones shipping by the end of Q2. All eight cores are based on ARM’s Cortex A53 …

AMD to Replace Kaveri With Godaveri

by Tom Allen

AMD may be preparing a new APU series codenamed ‘Godaveri’ – a refresh to the existing Kaveri platform. Swedish website Sweclockers claims that the platform will be launched in the summer. As a (supposed) refresh, …

Qualcomm Leak Shows 810 Successor

by Tom Allen

A Twitter-based source, Leakfly, has shared preliminary specifications for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 and 600 family processors. The roadmap document shows that the 820 uses 64-bit ‘TS2’ cores, which are based on a Samsung …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| SOCs| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Samsung Drops Qualcomm

by Vanessa Browning

‘People with direct knowledge of the matter’, speaking to Bloomberg, have said that Samsung will not use Qualcomm processors in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphone. The company will instead use its own microprocessors, after testing …

MediaTek Sets up ‘The Bomb’

by Tom Allen

Reports from China claim that Mediatek is working on a processor with ten (deca) or twelve (dodeca) cores, neatly bypassing the 64-bit octa-core processors that are being released today. According to GizChina, the new …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 22 - Issue 04

AMD Saves GPU Power With ‘Dynamic Frame Rate Control’

by Bob Raikes

A new feature for AMD’s Radeon graphics cards is being developed, known as ‘Dynamic Frame Rate Control’ (DFRC). The feature, which will be enabled by an coming Catalyst driver update, is able lower GPU …

Silicon Image Announces MHL Products for Automotive Market

by Bob Raikes

Silicon Image has announced the release of MHL products for the automotive markets. MHL has become a connection of choice for many automotive infotainment systems. With over 650 million devices featuring MHL connectivity, the …

AMD’s Carrizo Will Arrive Next Year

by Raverstead

AMD’s Carrizo APU (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9) has been officially announced, aimed at laptops and AIO PCs. It is part of a new APU family due to be released in the first …

Toshiba Claims First eDP-to-MIPI DSI Bridge IC

by Raverstead

Toshiba says that its new TC358860XBG is the industry’s first embedded DisplayPort (eDP)-to-MIPI dual-Display Serial Interface (DSI) converter IC. The chip supports video format conversion and compression technology for video inputs at resolutions up …