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Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

by Raverstead

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

by Raverstead

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 …

Intel Mini-PC Details are Leaked

by Raverstead

Website Myce.com has leaked details of Intel’s future Quark processor family – a step towards a smaller PC, like the Raspberry Pi. Two 289ets, Liffy Island and Seal Beach, are named in the leak. …

Snapdragon 210 Aims to Break Mediatek Monopoly

by Super User

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

by Super User

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

by Super User

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

by Super User

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

by Super User

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 …

ARM’s Mali Media IP Brings Single-Core HEVC Support

by Super User

ARM has announced a suite of new media IP, which can be used to develop media SoCs for smartphone and tablet products. The suite is comprised of the Mali-V550 video accelerator (supporting HEVC), the …

Parade Brings DisplayPort SST to UltraHD Tcon

by Super User

A new UltraHD timing controller, using embedded DisplayPort (eDP) v1.3, has been developed by Parade Technologies. The DP667 is said to be the first Tcon for UltraHD LCD panels that support the use of …

Parade Extends Jitter-Cleaning to HDMI 2.0

by Super User

To promote the use of the HDMI 2.0 standard, Parade Technologies has released a jitter-cleaning repeater chip called the PS8409. It is designed to remove clock jitter and data jitter/skew from an HDMI 2.0 …

ARM’s Big.Little Evolves at Ineda

by Super User

A low-power chip, developed by start-up Ineda Systems, has been developed to extend the lifetime of wearable devices. The chip works alongside the main processor. It listens for voice commands at all times and …

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