SoCs
Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets. With their newest chip, Apple is promising class-leading performance and power efficiency once again, with a particular focus on machine learning/AI performance. The launch of the M4 comes as Apple’s compute product lines have become a bit bifurcated. On the Mac side of matters, all of the current-generation MacBooks are based on the M3 family of chips. On...
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
BIOSTAR Goes Carrizo: A10N-8800E Mini-ITX Motherboard with Integrated FX-8800P
BIOSTAR has just introduced a mini-ITX motherboard with a built-in mobile processor, called the A10N-8800E. This Carrizo chipset based model uses an AMD FX-8800P quad-core processor, integrated Radeon R7...
14 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/24/2019
Intel Discontinues Quark SoCs and Microcontrollers
Intel has announced that it will discontinue all of its Quark-series SoCs microcontrollers. Intel’s partners will have to make their final orders for the chips this summer, whereas the...
27 by Anton Shilov on 1/22/2019
The Snapdragon 855 Performance Preview: Setting the Stage for Flagship Android 2019
As we get ever closer to the releases of various Android vendor’s newest generation devices, Qualcomm continues its tradition of showcasing the performance of its newest generation SoC ahead...
136 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/15/2019
Investigating NVIDIA's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
Today’s piece is a bit of an unusual review; NVIDIA’s new Jetson AGX embedded system kit isn’t really a device platform we’re expecting the average reader to think about...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/4/2019
AnandTech Year In Review 2018: Flagship Mobile
As we’re drawing to a close of the calendar year, it is time to look back and revisit what 2018 has brought to the mobile space. Unlike the PC...
65 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/28/2018
Intel to Expand Production Capacities at Multiple Fabs
Intel this week reiterated plans to expand its production capacities in a bid to more quickly respond to increased demand. In the coming years the company intends to increase...
24 by Anton Shilov on 12/19/2018
Arm Announces Cortex-A65AE for Automotive: First SMT CPU Core
Back in September, Arm had announced the new Cortex A76AE CPU with focus on automotive applications. Today, Arm adds to its portfolio by formally announcing a next gen processor...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2018
MediaTek Announces New Premium Helio P90 SoC
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about MediaTek – the Helio P60 was the last release in the more visible “premium” range that the company now focuses on...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/13/2018
Snapdragon 855: 802.11ax-Ready / Wi-Fi 6 Demonstrations
While the headline features of the new Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform might be the 5G connectivity, or the Cat 24 LTE modem, or the new CPU/GPU combination, further down...
15 by Ian Cutress on 12/11/2018
The Verizon and AT&T 5G Setups at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit
My inbox has been awash with emails regarding 5G ‘firsts’ this past year. Every time a company seems to demonstrate the smallest new ‘first’, such as mmWave through an...
3 by Ian Cutress on 12/10/2018
Qualcomm Tech Summit, Day 3: Snapdragon 8cx, the New ACPC SoC
For the final day of Qualcomm’s 3rd Annual Tech Summit, the focus is on its Always Connected PC (ACPC) platform. This is Qualcomm’s attempt to bring mobile processors to...
43 by Ian Cutress on 12/6/2018
Spotted: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Wafer on 7nm
Alongside the announcement of the new 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor for the company’s line of next generation premium tier Always Connected PCs, in the demo room today we...
15 by Ian Cutress on 12/6/2018
Snapdragon 855 Power Consumption Demo, But
One of the interesting demos for the newly announced Snapdragon 855 SoC here at Qualcomm’s Tech Summit was to do with power. In a dedicated area, Qualcomm had set...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/6/2018
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Pre-Dive: Going Into Detail on 2019's Flagship Android SoC
Following today’s early-on coverage of the Day 2 coverage of Qualcomm’s Tech Summit event in Maui, Hawaii, we recap the major story of the day: The new Snapdragon 855...
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/5/2018
Qualcomm Tech Summit, Day 2: Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform
Given the sheer success of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 SoC in so many 2018 flagship smartphones, the next generation Snapdragon 855 has a lot to live up to. Today Qualcomm...
7 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 12/5/2018 28.11.18-01_carousel.png)
Imagination Goes Further Down the AI Rabbit Hole, Unveils PowerVR Series3NX Neural Network Accelerator
After Imagination first announced their PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) last September, it has become a key part in their ambitions for AI and neural networks on the...
1 by Nate Oh on 12/4/2018
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series9XTP, Series9XMP, and Series9XEP GPU Cores
When Imagination first announced their PowerVR Furian architecture, it was only a month before they announced Apple was to phase out their use of Imagination's GPU IP. The state...
6 by Nate Oh on 12/4/2018
Short Supply of Intel’s Gemini Lake Confirmed by PC Maker
Intel has publicly admitted that demand for its processors exceeds supply, which is why it is currently prioritizes shipments of its higher-end Core and Xeon products over cheaper chips...
26 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2018
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