All the stories tagged with SoC
SoC stands for ‘system on a chip’ or ‘system on chip’ which is a way to describe that a complete electronic system (like a computer) has been integrated on a single chip that includes processors, co-processors, memory, and all the associated data buses. To qualify as an SoC, all the sub-components must be cut from the same silicon die. To learn more about SoC, read SoC: The Force That Rules All Smartphones and Tablets
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Mass Production Begins Next Month
04/28/2013, The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor was first revealed back at CES 2013. It is a quadcore chip that utilizes Qualcomm’s new Krait 400 CPU designed with 28nm process and optimized for frequencies as high as 2.3Ghz. It has a Adreno [...]
NVIDIA Open To Licensing Its Technology To “Vertically Integrated” Companies
03/19/2013, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s talked to industry analysts today, and talked about various growth avenue, and he mentioned that NVIDIA was “open to licensing” its technology to companies that are heavily vertically integrated. Of course, two names pop immediately: Apple [...]
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 200 And 400 Chipset
02/20/2013, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 200 and 400 series aimed at the lower-end market. This extends the new processor list for 2013 which now looks like this: the Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, 800. the 200 and 400 chipsets have [...]
NVIDIA Tegra 4i LTE Processor
02/19/2013, NVIDIA has just announced Tegra 4i, a new member in the Tegra 4 family of mobile processors. Tegra 4i features NVIDIA’s first integrated 4G LTE modem and it has been designed for smartphones that require both high-performance and very tight [...]
Intel Launches “Budget-Friendly” Processors
01/22/2013, Intel has just launched a series of budget-friendly CPUs based on its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. According to CPU World, Intel has launched a total of seven new additions to its Celeron and Pentium series. Intel’s Celeron family are welcoming three [...]
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Specs & Details
01/17/2013, [This is an ongoing story: Samsung will reveal more details as we get closer to Solid State Circuits Conference (Feb 19) Mobile World Congress (Feb 25-28), so we will update this page accordingly] The Samsung Exynos 5 Octa is a [...]
What Is ARM big.LITTLE?
01/17/2013, ARM’s big.LITTLE is a processor technology that you are going to hear a lot about in 2013 as Samsung, Huawei and others promote their 8-core (octo-core) chips used in smartphones, tablets and possibly Chromebooks. There is no doubt that marketing [...]
Apple Eyeing On TSMC’s 16 Nanometer FinFET Technology For A Breakthrough Product [Rumor]
01/16/2013, Adding more weight to the rumors, DigiTimes is reporting that TSMC is getting ready to develop an integrated AP/ GPU solution for the Cupertino-based technology giant, Apple. According to Digitimes Research analyst Nobunaga Chai, TSMC will be using its 20nm [...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Revealed: 75% Faster, Says Qualcomm
01/07/2013, At CES 2013, Qualcomm has made an announcement that is likely going to set their tone for most of 2013: their new Snapdragon processors are here, and they come not only with much improved features and performance, but also with [...]
Apple Eyeing Move Away From Intel Processors to ARM for Mac
11/05/2012, When Apple moved to Intel processors back in 2005, it was a coming-out of sorts for the Mac OS X operating system. No longer forced to run on PowerPC processors built by Motorola and IBM, software availability bloomed, and the [...]
iPhone 5 A6 chip probably has custom core design
09/16/2012, For all the noise that was made around the relative lack of novelty with the iPhone 5, it’s fair to say that most people will probably agree on the fact that it is a faster phone, and not in a [...]
TSMC’s 28nm-based ARM Cortex-A9 test chip goes beyond 3 GHz
05/04/2012, Today, TSMC, also known as the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, announced that its very own 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor test chip reached 3.1 GHz. According to TSMC, the 28nm HPM process technology will address applications that are requiring high [...]
Atom Z2580 first CPU to be Manufactured on Intel’s 14nm Technology [Rumor]
04/09/2012, An interesting rumor came about recently regarding Intel’s intent to make an LTE-enabled smartphone/tablet processor which will be using their new 14nm technology. The processor which is called the Intel Atom Z2580, is a result of Intel focusing more on [...]
