Smartphones
This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled higher performance. Samsung's unnamed high-performance mobile SoC relies on 'flagship' general-purpose CPU and GPU architectures as well as various IP blocks from Synopsys. SoC designers used Synopsys.ai EDA software, including the Synopsys DSO.ai to fine-tune design and maximize yields as well as Synopsys Fusion Compiler RTL-to-GDSII solution to achieve higher performance, lower power, and optimize area (PPA). And while the news that Samsung has developed a high-performance SoC using the Synopsys.ai...
LG Optimus G - JavaScript Performance Improving in Final Software
A few days ago we posted some preview performance numbers from the LG Optimus G with Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 quad core Krait SoC at 1.5 GHz. While...
22 by Brian Klug on 9/20/2012Hands On with the Windows Phone 8X and 8S
Earlier this morning Microsoft and HTC announced the new Windows Phone 8X and Windows Phone 8S. The specs of the two phones is below, but basically you're looking at...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/19/2012The Windows Phone 8X and 8S by HTC
Check out our hands on with the devices here. At an event today in NYC, HTC unveiled its first two Windows Phone 8 devices: the Windows Phone 8X and 8S...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/19/2012HTC's Windows Phone 8 NYC Event live blog
We just sat down at HTC's NYC event. Specifics aren't being shared about what's being announced here but follow along with our live blog to see what's bound to...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/19/2012Samsung's Galaxy Note II: Coming to Five US Carriers in Mid-November
We recently spent some hands on time with the Galaxy Note II, Samsung's new 5.5-inch Jelly Bean equipped Android smartphone/minitablet. The Note II runs a 32nm 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/19/2012iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460
The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at...
110 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/19/2012Motorola Hits 2GHz with Intel Powered RAZR i
At the beginning of this year Intel finally unveiled its Atom Z2460 (Medfield) smartphone platform. The single-core, dual-thread CPU ran at up to 1.6GHz and was paired with a...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/18/2012LG Optimus G Performance Preview
Earlier tonight LG announced its Optimus G, the company's first Qualcomm Fusion 3 based smartphone (APQ8064 + MDM9615). If you don't follow Qualcomm's naming system closely, we're talking about...
20 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/18/2012Hands on with the LG Optimus G Updated: Sample Photos and White Model
Today we're at the LG Optimus G launch event in South Korea and just got a change to have a brief hands on with LG's new flagship smartphone. Initial...
14 by Brian Klug on 9/17/2012LG Makes Optimus G Official - Quad Core 1.5 GHz APQ8064 with 4.7-inch In-Cell Touch
We've seen it leaked quite a few times leading up to this official announcement, but today LG did something a bit out of the ordinary by flying us out...
24 by Brian Klug on 9/17/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 5
Despite crazy travel schedules and Brian being in South Korea, we managed to carve out nearly 2 hours across time zones to discuss the iPhone 5. Brian goes over...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2012Analyzing the iPhone 5 Geekbench Results
While working on our Haswell piece, I've been religiously checking the Geekbench and GLBenchmark results browsers to see if anyone ran either benchmark and decided to tap upload. This...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2012iPhone 5 Memory Size and Speed Revealed: 1GB LPDDR2-1066
Quick analysis of the A6 SoC photos from the iPhone 5 launch event tells us all we need to know about the memory interface, speed and bandwidth of the...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/15/2012The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC. As always, Apple didn't...
164 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2012Why the iPhone 5 Lacks Support for Simultaneous Voice and LTE or EVDO (SVLTE, SVDO)
So we've seen the new iPhone, and had a chance to briefly play with it at the demo room, but as I've learned in the past so many times...
90 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2012New iPod Touch Leads Revamped iPod Lineup
It’s been a pretty action-packed day for Apple. While the star of today’s event was undoubtedly the new iPhone 5, the Cupertino giant also gave the iPod lineup an...
22 by Vivek Gowri on 9/12/2012iPhone 5 Hands On Pics and Video - Updated: With Impressions
We just spent a good amount of time with the iPhone 5. The phone feels very thin and light (obviously), and the improvement in performance is very noticeable compared...
91 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/12/2012Apple iPhone 5: Announced
Apple announced its 6th generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, at a special event in San Francisco this morning. The iPhone 5 brings a huge list of improvements. Apple unexpectedly...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC
This one caught us off guard, but Apple just announced the A6 SoC powering the new iPhone 5 features 2x faster CPU and GPU performance compared to the iPhone...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Our Apple iPhone 5 Live Blog
With IDF day 1 under our belts and the live blogging engine tested in our keynote and Haswell architecture coverage, it's time to set our sights on the next...
98 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/12/2012