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ARM Designs for AR and VR

by Tom Allen

ARM has announced a new CPU and GPU for flagship mobile devices, which will be available in 2017. The Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU are designed to support VR and AR applications. The new …

Intel Launches Skylake 6th Gen at IFA

by Bob Raikes

The first keynote of IFA was by Intel and the firm started with a video highlighting the latest generation of PCs with “6th generation” Core processors (Skylake). The first speaker was Kirk Skaugen, head …

HSA Finalises 1.0 Specification for Power-Efficient Computing

by Tom Allen

The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has released the HSA 1.0 specification, bringing the technology industry one step closer to true heterogeneous computing on platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and …

ARM Sets New Standard for the Premium Mobile Experience

by Tom Allen

ARM announced a suite of IP that will enable a new standard for premium experiences on 2016 mobile devices. At the heart of this suite is the ARM Cortex-A72 processor, which is the highest …

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Nvidia’s Teraflop Chip Enables Self-Aware Cars

by Vanessa Browning

In a big shift from last year, when its stand was all about gaming, Nvidia focused on automotive applications at the 2015 show. Nvidia’s new Tegra X1 chip is a quad-core device using four …

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 …

Updates from the SuperComputing Conference

by Helen Vince

High Performance Computing – The SuperComputing Conference being held in New Orleans is an interesting event if you have high performance computing (HPC) needs, like those in broadcast, post production and some ProAV applications. …

Intel Maintains Mobile Subsidies

by Raverstead

Intel will continue to subsidise its mobile device processors, and will even expand the coverage from 10″-and-smaller devices to all devices of 12″ and smaller. Supply chain sources say that Asus, Acer and Lenovo have …

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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. …

TSMC Scoops Half of A9 Orders

by Raverstead

Between 40% and 50% of orders for Apple’s A9 processor will go to TSMC, say Asian sources. The figure is believed to represent all of Apple’s A9 chip orders for the next iPad tablet, …

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Imagination Customers to Create ‘Kepler’ Competitor

by Raverstead

Imagination Technologies has said that it is working on coherent interconnect technology; this would enable Imagination’s newest multicore MIPS processors to be combined with ‘large arrays’ of its PowerVR GPUs. The intent is to …

Intel’s New Architecture to Arrive in 2015

by Raverstead

Intel has shared part of its product roadmap for the coming year, showing that both Skylake and Broadwell architectures will get attention in the 14nm space. Core M (Broadwell) products will be launched at …