SoCs
During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation mobile and desktop products at the same time. With a tight schedule that will see both platforms launch within weeks of each other, today AMD is taking their first step with the launch of the Ryzen AI 300 series – codenamed Strix Point – their new Zen 5-powered mobile SoC. The latest and greatest from AMD, the Strix Point brings significant architectural improvements across AMD's entire IP portfolio. Headlining the...
Nintendo Announces Switch Portable Gaming Console - Powered by NVIDIA Tegra
Earlier today Nintendo took the wraps off of their next generation console, Switch. Formerly known by the codename NX, the Switch is the successor to both Nintendo’s portable DS...
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Huawei announces the HiSilicon Kirin 960: 4xA73 + 4xA53, G71MP8, CDMA
Last year we had the opportunity to attend HiSilicon's launch event of the Kirin 950. The 950 SoC was the first to employ ARM's Cortex A72 in a smartphone...
43 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 10/19/2016
Gen-Z Consortium Formed: Developing a New Memory Interconnect
Anyone tasked with handling the way data is moved around a processor deserves praise. It takes time, dedication and skill to design something that not only works appropriately and...
15 by Ian Cutress on 10/12/2016
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 39
Here’s the second part of AnandTech’s smartphone podcast, post the Apple event where the iPhone 7 was launched. On the Podcast are Ian, Josh and Matt (apologies for his...
10 by Ian Cutress on 10/3/2016
NVIDIA Teases Xavier, a High-Performance ARM SoC for Drive PX & AI
Ever since NVIDIA bowed out of the highly competitive (and high pressure) market for mobile ARM SoCs, there has been quite a bit of speculation over what would happen...
36 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2016
New ARM IP Launched: CMN-600 Interconnect for 128 Cores and DMC-620, an 8Ch DDR4 IMC
You need much more than a good CPU core to conquer the server world. As more cores are added, the way data moves from one part of the silicon...
14 by Johan De Gelas on 9/27/2016
CEVA Launches Fifth-Generation Machine Learning Image and Vision DSP Solution: CEVA-XM6
Deep learning, neural networks and image/vision processing is already a large field, however many of the applications that rely on it are still in their infancy. Automotive is the...
3 by Ian Cutress on 9/27/2016
Xilinx Launches Cost-Optimized Portfolio: New Spartan, Artix and Zynq Solutions
Some of the key elements of the embedded market are cost, power and efficiency. A number of applications for embedded vision and IoT, when applying complexity, rely on the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 9/27/2016
AMD 7th Gen Bristol Ridge and AM4 Analysis: Up to A12-9800, B350/A320 Chipset, OEMs first, PIBs Later
Over the last two weeks, AMD officially launched their 7th Generation Bristol Ridge processors as well as the new AM4 socket and related chipsets. The launch was somewhat muted...
125 by Ian Cutress on 9/23/2016
ARM Research Summit: Research Roadmap Keynote Live Blog
We're still at the ARM Research Summit, and the keynote talk on the ARM roadmap is about to start!
12 by Ian Cutress on 9/15/2016
ARM Research Summit 2016 Keynote Live Blog
ARM's first Research Summit is happening today at Churchill College, Cambridge. We have near-front row seats and are expecting some details on future HPC plans today. Dr Chris Doran...
8 by Ian Cutress on 9/15/2016
Analyzing Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro Hardware Reveal: What Lies Beneath
A few months ago near the start of E3, Sony made an interesting revelation: that they would be releasing a higher performing PlayStation 4 console. A console intended to...
207 by Ryan Smith on 9/8/2016
Intel Quietly Launches Apollo Lake SoC: Goldmont CPU, 6 SKUs, 6 & 10 Watts
Earlier this week was the formal unveiling of Kaby Lake, Intel’s 7th generation Core CPU architecture. And while Kaby Lake was the focus of Intel’s efforts for obvious reasons...
71 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2016
Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 821: Clocks, Efficiency, and IP
While Qualcomm already announced the Snapdragon 821, with the announcement details were rather sparse. Fortunately, today Qualcomm followed up with more details. Those that followed the announcement might recall...
32 by Joshua Ho on 8/31/2016
Samsung Announces Exynos 7570 14nm Budget SoC
Today Samsung LSI launches a new 14nm SoC oriented at the budget and IoT segments. The new Exynos 7570 seems to be a a successor to the Exynos 3470...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/30/2016
More Details on Broxton: Quad Core, ECC, Up to 18 EUs of Gen9
An interesting talk regarding the IoT aspects of Intel’s Next Generation Atom Core, Goldmont, and the Broxton SoCs for the market offered a good chunk of information regarding the...
21 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016
Softbank Acquires ARM in 24B GBP Deal
While we normally focus on the technology, to have a holistic understanding of the industry it’s necessary to see the business side as well. While ARM has been an...
59 by Joshua Ho on 7/18/2016
Intel Readies New NUCs Based on Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake SoCs
As one might expect, Intel is working on a new generation of its NUC small-form-factor systems based on the company’s upcoming Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake microprocessors. The writers...
39 by Anton Shilov on 7/15/2016
More Atom: Apollo Lake On Display
Further to our recent post about spotting Denverton silicon on display at Computex this year, we also caught an Apollo Lake mini-PC motherboard doing the rounds at the ECS...
17 by Ian Cutress on 7/15/2016
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 821: 2.4 GHz Kryo
If you’ve been paying attention to the right places in the past few months it was probably obvious this was coming, but Qualcomm is announcing a higher tier to...
78 by Joshua Ho on 7/11/2016
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