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What Bob Saw Around the Net…. 13/12/2018

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Spotify …

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Intel CEO Addresses CPU Supply Constraints in Open Letter

by Andrew Fenn

Intel CEO Bob Swan has claimed that cloud data centre demand and an unexpected uptick in PC sales and CPU upgrades are to blame for the ongoing shortage of Intel processors. Prices of Intel …

Tags:CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 38

ARM VPU Mali-V76 Has 8K Support

by Milos Pavlovic

Arm has announced new CPU, a GPU and a VPU design for video processing. The Cortex A-76 is claimed to be 35% faster and 40% more power efficient than last year’s designs and the …

Tags:Arm| Chips| CPUs| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Qualcomm to Reveal New AR/VR Processor Next Week

by Andrew Fenn

It has been revealed that Qualcomm is planning to officially announce a new chip built for VR and AR headsets at next week’s Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, US. Snapdragon XR1 will reportedly …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| CPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 20

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Apple to Ditch Intel CPUs?

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg has reported that Apple plans to move away from using Intel chips in its Mac product line and move to its own chips, based on the Arm architecture and currently used in Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Next SnapDragon Supports UltraHD Premium and WiGig

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has released the next Snapdragon chip, the 845 that will be used in flagship phones in 2018, including the Samsung S9 family. The chip is said to be able to support up to …

Tags:CPUs| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Smartphones| UltraHD| UltraHD Alliance| Vol 24 - Issue 46| WiGIG

Microcontroller Closes the Graphics Gap

by Bob Raikes

Microchip has created what it claims to be the first microcontroller unit (MCU) to combine a 2D graphics processor with integrated DDR2 memory. The three-layer graphics controller in the 32-bit PIC32MZ DA family drives …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| Graphics Processing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

IFA 2017: Huawei unveils Kirin 970

by Milos Pavlovic

Huawei gave a keynote and had a big booth at the show, but the company told us that there were no new finished products on the booth. However, there was a new component, the …

Tags:CPUs| Huawei| IFA 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Intel Updates the Core Range to Gen 8

by Bob Raikes

Intel released its latest chip family, the 8th generation of Intel Core processors. The new chips are claimed to have 40% more performance than the previous 7th generation chips and double the performance of …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Intel to Announce 8th Gen Core Processor via Facebook Live

by Andrew Fenn

Intel will reveal the brand new 8th Generation Intel Core Processor via Facebook Live on August 21st at 8 a.m. PDT. The live stream will feature an array of speakers including Senior VP of …

Tags:Back Panel| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 29

Intel Sets Compute Card Date and Boosts CPUs at Computex

by Bob Raikes

At Computex, Intel announced the X Series of CPUs that includes a new Core i9 processor, designed for advanced gaming, VR and content creation and extending up to an ‘Extreme Edition’. The chips offer …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Computex 2017| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart Digital Signage| Smart TV| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21| WiGIG

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Sometimes the News is the System, not the Display

by Bob Raikes

We managed to get the ISE report done this week for our LDM subscribers, while trying to get ready for our Mobile World Congress trip from Sunday. This is a busy time of year, …

Tags:CPUs| Editorial| Intel| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| OPS| Vol 24 - Issue 07