SoCs
As the semiconductor industry continues to evolve, Arm stands at the forefront of innovation for its core and IP architecture, especially in the mobile space, by pushing the boundaries of technology to deliver cutting-edge solutions for end users. For 2024, Arm's year-on-year strategic advancements focus on enhancing last year's Armv9.2 architecture with a new twist. Arm has rebranded and re-strategized its efforts by introducing Arm Compute Subsystem (CSS), the direct successor to last year's Total Compute Solutions (TSC2023) platform. Arm is also transitioning its latest IP and Cortex core designs, including the largest Cortex X925, the middle Cortex A725, and the refreshed and smaller Cortex A520 to the more advanced 3 nm process technology. Arm promises that the 3 nm process node will deliver unprecedented...
NVIDIA Tegra X1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
In the past few years, we’ve seen NVIDIA shift their mobile strategy dramatically with time. With Tegra 2 and 3, we saw multiple design wins in the smartphone space...
194 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 1/5/2015
Imagination Launches Creator CI20 Development Board
Last week Imagination launched the Creator CI20 development board. This device is quite interesting because of the combination of architecture, features, developer support, form factor, and pricing. It also...
27 by Stephen Barrett on 12/8/2014
Intel Plans Merger Of Mobile And PC Divisions
According to a report this evening from the Wall Street Journal, in an email sent to employees by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Intel has announced plans to merge their...
34 by Brett Howse on 11/18/2014
Ingenic Launches Newton2: MIPS based IoT and Wearables Solution
The wearables and IoT market are moving very quickly, and only seven months after announcing their Newton platform, Ingenic is following up with Newton2. This pace reminds me of...
2 by Stephen Barrett on 11/12/2014
Apple A8X’s GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought
Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustration. Apple’s SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge, so it’s always great...
114 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014
ARM Announces Mali 800 Series GPUs - T860, T830, & T820
Due to a lack of total vertical integration and heavy focus on IP licensing, one of the more interesting aspects of the SoC development pipeline is that we get...
28 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2014
ARM Announces Mali-V550 Video Processor & Mali-DP550 Display Processor
As part of ARM’s fall refresh of their Mali graphics product lineup, today ARM is announcing refreshes and new products in a number of product segments. All told ARM...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2014
ARM Announces “mbed” IoT Device Platform
Following up on the incredible success of smartphones, tablets, and other handheld-size mobile devices, device manufacturers have been toying with ideas on what comes next. A common theme across...
15 by Ryan Smith on 10/1/2014
HP, AppliedMicro and TI Bring New ARM Servers to Retail
Yesterday HP announced retail availability of two ARM based servers, the ProLiant m400 and m800. Each are offered in a server cartridge as part of the Moonshot System. A...
34 by Stephen Barrett on 9/30/2014
Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache & More
One of the more enjoyable rituals with Apple’s annual iPhone launch is the decapping, deconstruction, and photographing of the processor die at the heart of Apple’s newest SoC. ...
65 by Ryan Smith on 9/23/2014
MediaTek Labs and LinkIt Platform Launch Targeting IoT and Wearables
Companies such as Motorola, Apple, Nest, and Fitbit have been targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables market with devices for the past several years. However, if the...
7 by Stephen Barrett on 9/22/2014
Samsung's Exynos 5433 is an A57/A53 ARM SoC
There has been a lot of confusion going on over the last few weeks on what exactly Samsung's Exynos 5433 is. Joshua and I were pretty much convinced that...
41 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/16/2014
Analyzing Apple’s A8 SoC: PowerVR GX6450 & More
With their iPhone keynote behind them, Apple has begun updating some of their developer documentation for iOS to account for the new phone. This of course is always a...
136 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2014
Apple Announces A8 SoC
As expected from this year’s iPhone keynote, Apple has announced a new member of their internally developed family of ARM SoCs. The latest SoC, dubbed A8, is Apple’s first SoC...
66 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2014
NVIDIA & VMware Preview GRID vGPU & Tegra K1 Chromebook Support
NVIDIA has been anything but shy about their GPU virtualization aspirations, making it a focal point for the company’s development since the launch of their first GRID cards back...
11 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2014
HTC Announces Desire 510: First 64-bit Android Phone
While normally one might expect high end phones to get the latest and greatest features first, this time we see a bit of a surprising reversal. The Desire 510...
47 by Joshua Ho on 8/27/2014
Unity Adds Native x86 Support for Android
Intel is facing an uphill battle in the mobile space from a marketshare perspective, but there's an additional challenge: the bulk of mobile apps are compiled targeting ARM based...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2014
State of the Part: SoC Manufacturers
Introduction A few years ago, it seemed a new System-On-Chip (SoC) design using an ARM-based architecture would pop up every other week. While competition can be great, with so many...
94 by Jarred Walton on 8/19/2014
ARM's Cortex M: Even Smaller and Lower Power CPU Cores
ARM (and its partners) were arguably one of the major causes of the present day smartphone revolution. While AMD and Intel focused on using Moore’s Law to drive higher...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/18/2014
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