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New Core M Chips Speed Range

by Raverstead

Intel has introduced four new Core M chips, which are faster than the original devices from IFA (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). The news comes from CPU World, which claims that the chips …

Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

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Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to supply its STB SoCs that are already in production and believes that the …

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AMD’s Omega Upscales to UltraHD for FullHD Display

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AMD has announced a new driver for its GPUs and APUs that challenges Nvidia technologies. Replacing Catalyst 14.9, the Catalyst Omega driver is said to raise GPU performance by up to 19% on high-end …

Imagination Designs New MIPS for Android L

by Super User

Imagination Technologies has refreshed the ageing MIPS architecture with a new 64-bit processor, the MIPS I6400. It is a multi-core SoC with integrated graphics and simultaneous multithreading; up to four threads per core, simultaneously, …

AMD: ‘If 28nm Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it’

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Rory Read, AMD’s CEO, has detailed the company’s two-year roadmap at a presentation for Deutsche Bank in Germany. He said that 28nm would remain a major process for the company for some time, but …

Armada Brings RDK to SoC

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A new quad-core SoC, supporting UltraHD, has been developed by Marvell. The Armada 1500 Pro 4K (88DE3214) uses an ARM CPU and a ‘multi-core’ 3D graphics processor. UltraHD content can be played at 60fps, …

Intel Seeks Sub-10nm

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At Intel’s developer forum (IDF), the company said that it is working to drive processes down to 7nm, without advances in lithography. EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography, rather than today’s deep UV lithography, is commonly …

Snapdragon 210 Aims to Break Mediatek Monopoly

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Qualcomm’s newest mobile processor is aimed squarely at Mediatek’s core business: value devices. The Snapdragon 210 is Qualcomm’s first 4G chip for entry-level smartphones and tablets; it also supports 3G, LTE Broadcast, LTE Dual …

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ARM and TSMC Celebrate Big.Little on FinFET

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The results of a silicon validation of ARM’s Big.Little chip architecture, showing performance improvements, have been announced. The validation used ‘Big’ Cortex-A57 and ‘Little’ Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET (16FF) process technology. The …

Samsung Keeps 14nm Details Close to Chest

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A 14nm FinFET device was shown by Samsung at ARM TechCon earlier this month. While the company was not sharing any information about the chip, a mobile application processor was shown decoding HD video …

Allwinner Targets Premium SoCs

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China’s Allwinner Technology has announced a new octa-core SoC for high-end set-top boxes and gaming devices. The H8 chip is based on TSMC’s 28nm process. It uses eight Cortex-A7 cores, running at up to …

Mediatek’s Platform Speeds Time-to-Market

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Mediatek’s new smartphone platform, the MT6735, is a 64-bit device designed to speed products’ time-to-market. The MT6735 Mainstream Worldmode Smartphone Platform, to give it its full name, aims at ‘mid-range’ price points. It incorporates …