SoCs
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
NUVIA Phoenix Targets +40-50% ST Performance Over Zen 2 for Only 33% the Power
In November 2019, the company NUVIA broke out of stealth mode. Founded by former senior Apple and Google processor architects, John Bruno, Manu Gulati and Gerard Williams III, the...
50 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/11/2020Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold
Today Qualcomm is announcing an update to its extremely successful Snapdragon 865 SoC: the new Snapdragon 865+. The Snapdragon 865 had already seen tremendous success with over 140 different...
88 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/8/2020HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
It was recently announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, located at Riken in Japan, has scored the #1 position on the TOP500 supercomputer list, as well as #1 positions in...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2020AMD Succeeds in its 25x20 Goal: Renoir Crosses the Line in 2020
One of the stories bubbling away in the background of the industry is the AMD self-imposed ‘25x20’ goal. Starting with performance in 2014, AMD committed to itself, to customers...
83 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/25/2020The Next Phase: Apple Lays Out Plans To Transition Macs from x86 to Apple SoCs
After many months of rumors and speculation, Apple confirmed this morning during their annual WWDC keynote that the company intends to transition away from using x86 processors at the...
241 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 690: 5G & A77 In The Mid-Range
Today Qualcomm is extending its 5G SoC portfolio down to the Snapdragon 600-series, introducing the new Snapdragon 690 platform and chip. The new design is a more significant upgrade...
24 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/16/2020Arm Announces Ethos-N78 NPU: Bigger And More Efficient
Yesterday Arm released the new Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1 CPUs and the new Mali-G78 GPU. Alongside the new “key” IPs from the company, we also saw the reveal of the newest...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2020Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence
2019 was a great year for Arm. On the mobile side of things one could say it was business as usual, as the company continued to see successes with...
192 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020Arm Announces The Mali-G78 GPU: Evolution to 24 Cores
Today as part of Arm’s 2020 TechDay announcements, alongside the release of the brand-new Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 CPUs, Arm is also revealing its brand-new Mali-G78 and Mali-G68 GPU...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020MediaTek Announces Dimensity 820 Mid-Range SoC With More Performance
Today MediaTek is announcing a refresh of the Dimensity 800 mid-range SoC – a new 5G chipset that had only been announced earlier this year at CES. The newer...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/18/2020Nvidia Announces New Drive Platforms With Orin and Ampere
Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon...
37 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/14/2020Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 768G: Higher-bin 765 up to 2.8GHz
Today alongside with the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition, Qualcomm is announcing the new Snapdragon 768G SoC which powers the device. The new SoC is...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/11/2020MediaTek Announces Dimensity 1000+ SoC
Today MediaTek announced a follow-up in its SoC line-up with the new Dimensity 1000+. This seems to be a binned or revisioned variant of the Dimensity 1000 announced last...
35 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/7/2020Apple’s A12Z Processor Confirmed to Reuse A12X Silicon
Last month Apple introduced its latest generation of iPad Pro tablets, and much to the surprise of many, the new iDevices didn’t come with a high-end variant of Apple’s...
57 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2020Mobile Benchmark Cheating: When a SoC Vendor Provides It As A Service
Mobile benchmark cheating has a long story that goes far back for the industry (well – at least in smartphone industry years), and has also been a controversial coverage...
111 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/8/2020UNISOC Unveils T7520 SoC for 5G Smartphones: Octa-Core, 6nm EUV
UNISOC, formerly Spreadtrum Semiconductor, has announced its first mobile application processor with an integrated 5G modem. Dubbed the T7520, the SoC also happens to be one of the world’s...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/4/2020Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon
Several years ago, at a local event detailing a new Arm microarchitecture core, I recall a conversation I had with a number of executives at the time: the goal...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/3/2020Arm Announces Cortex-M55 Core And Ethos-U55 microNPU
Today Arm announces its newest addition to the Cortex-M series, the new Cortex M55. In addition to the new CPU microarchitecture which brings several new improvements, we also see...
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/10/2020Intel Joins CHIPS Alliance, Contributes Advanced Interface Bus
Intel this week became a member of CHIPS Alliance, an industry consortium that is working to accelerate the development of open source SoCs (and SiPs) for various applications. As...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/24/2020CES 2020: Ambarella Showcases CV2, CV22 and CV25 Demos
Amongst the many showcases at CES 2020 was Ambarella’s newest demo line-up showcasing various solutions using the CV2, CV22 and also demonstrating new platforms based on the newly announced...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/16/2020