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As Qualcomm prepares for the mid-year launch of their forthcoming Snapdragon X SoCs for PCs, and the eagerly anticipated Oryon CPU cores within, the company is finally shoring up their official product plans, and releasing some additional technical details in the process. Thus far the company has been demonstrating their Snapdragon X Elite SoC in its highest-performing, fully-enabled configuration. But the retail Snapdragon X Elite will not be a single part; instead, Qualcomm is preparing a whole range of chip configurations for various price/performance tiers in the market. Altogether, there will be 3 Snapdragon X Elite SKUs that differ in CPU and GPU performance. As well, the company is introducing a second Snapdragon X tier, Snapdragon X Plus, for those SKUs positioned below the Elite...
AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?
Back on Monday we saw the surprise announcement from AMD and Samsung revealing a multi-year strategic partnership in which Samsung will license AMD’s graphics IP. Since the announcement, we’ve...
96 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/7/2019
MediaTek Announces 7nm 5G With Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPU Coming
Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem. Even more interesting is the fact that...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/29/2019
Arm's New Cortex-A77 CPU Micro-architecture: Evolving Performance
2018 was an exciting year for Arm’s own CPU designs. Last year in May we saw the release of the Cortex-A76 and the subsequent resulting silicon in the form...
109 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2019
Arm's New Mali-G77 & Valhall GPU Architecture: A Major Leap
Along today’s announcement of the new Cortex-A77 CPU microarchitecture, the arguably bigger announcement is Arm’s unveiling of the new Valhall GPU architecture and the new Mali-G77 GPU. It’s been...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2019
SiFive Acquires USB 2.0 and 3.x IP Portfolio to Strengthen RISC-V SoCs
SiFive, one of the world’s leading developers of controllers and SoCs based on the RISC-V instruction set, has acquired USB IP portfolio from Innovative Logic, a silicon IP designer...
7 by Anton Shilov on 5/23/2019
United States Rules Qualcomm In Violation of Antitrust Laws - Qualcomm To Appeal
The United States Federal Trade Commission’s case against Qualcomm has just taken an important step. In a ruling released last night, the US District Court judge Lucy Koh issued...
17 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2019
Report: Arm Suspends Business with Huawei - Future Chip Development In Jeopardy
In the latest event in the quickly moving saga that is Huawei’s technology export blacklisting by the United States Government, the BBC has published a report this morning claiming...
116 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2019
Marvell to Acquire Avera Semiconductor from GlobalFoundries
Marvell on Monday announced that it had entered into agreement to buy Avera Semiconductor from GlobalFoundries. The acquisition will bring additional chip design capabilities to Marvell and will enable...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2019
Cadence Announces Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP
Last year we saw the announcement of Cadence’s Tensilica Q6 DSP IP which promised a new architecture that brings integration between vision DSP workloads and new optimised machine learning...
0 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/15/2019
Intel to Discontinue First-Gen Movidius Neural Compute Stick
Intel this week initiated an end-of-life plan for its Movidius Neural Compute Stick, which is based on the Myriad 2 VPU. The product will be available for another year...
24 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2019
Ampere Computing: Arm is Now an Investor
The pipeline for Arm based server products has a few companies fighting for as much of the market as they can get – the server market is a big...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/15/2019
AI On The Edge: New Flex Logix X1 Inference AI Chip For Fanless Designs
A large number of inference demonstrations published by the big chip manufacturers revolve around processing large batch sizes of images on trained networks. In reality, when video is being...
4 by Ian Cutress on 4/10/2019
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 665 & 730 Platforms: 11 & 8nm
Today at Qualcomm’s AI Day in San Francisco we saw the reveal of the new Snapdragon 665 and Snapdragon 730 SoCs and platforms. The new chipsets represent updates to...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/9/2019
ChipRebel Releases Exynos 9820 Die Shot: M4 CPUs in New Cluster
Every time a new SoC comes one, the one thing we eagerly await is for someone to release a die shot of the new chip. This process is most...
66 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/9/2019
Sizing Up The 5G Modem Market: Qualcomm, Intel, Huawei, Samsung, UniSOC, and Mediatek
It will be very difficult to look at mobile connectivity news in 2019 and not see buzzwords like ‘5G’ being used everywhere. Everyone wants to talk big about 5G...
56 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2019
Pictured: Intel and Qualcomm to offer 5G Modules for M.2 Slots
Last week we reported on Fibocom, an Intel partner, had announced a new M.2 module featuring the Intel XMM8160 5G modem to be used in CPEs as well as...
21 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2019
Qualcomm Launches the QCA6390 Chipset: 1.8 Gbps Wi-Fi 6 Ready with BlueTooth 5.1
With the upcoming ratification of the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard expected in August, a number of companies are gearing up with Wi-Fi 6 ‘ready’ routers and end-points to get...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019
Xilinx Announce New RFSoCs for 5G, Covering Sub-6 GHz and mmWave
More often than not, embedded wireless equipment, the infrastructure that powers it, and the systems that test the deployed hardware don’t just use off-the-shelf parts. As with 4G and...
6 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 712: A Higher Bin 710
Today Qualcomm announced a new entry into its “upper mid-range” line-up of SoCs: The Snapdragon 712. The announcement is quite surprising, as it seems the chip might possibly simply...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/7/2019
Intel Considers $11 Billion Fab in Israel
Late last year Intel announced massive plans to increase its global chip production capacities by upgrading, expanding, and equipping four of its fabs. As it turns out, the company...
37 by Anton Shilov on 1/29/2019
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