SoCs
During the Intel keynote hosted by CEO Pat Gelsinger, he gave the world a glimpse into the Intel Client roadmap until 2026. Meteor Lake launched last year on that roadmap, and Lunar Lake, which we dived into yesterday as Intel disclosed technical details about the upcoming platform. Pat also presented a wafer on stage, Panther Lake, and he gave some additional information about Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake platform, which is expected in 2025. We covered Intel's initial announcement about the Panther Lake platform last year. It is set to be Intel's first client platform using its Intel 18A node. Aside from once again affirming that things are on track for a 2026 launch, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, also confirmed that they will be powering on...
Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit: Day One Live Blog (6:30pm UTC)
This week, in Hawaii, Qualcomm is holding its annual Snapdragon Tech event. This year we're expecting to hear news on the latest Snapdragon 800-series SoC, movements in Qualcomm's 5G...
28 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 12/5/2017
MediaTek Reveals MT2621 SoC for IoT: Arm7 MCU, Integrated GPRS/NB-IoT Modem
MediaTek this week announced a new SoC designed for ultra-low-power autonomous IoT applications such as wearables, security sensors, and similar devices. The MT2621 SoC integrates basic computational capabilities...
3 by Anton Shilov on 11/30/2017
Intel to Update Xeon D in Early 2018, with Skylake-SP Cores
One of the interesting sub-announcements to come out of Intel’s EPYC benchmark numbers was a slide on the ‘momentum’ of Intel’s new Xeon Scalable Platform using Skylake-SP cores. Alongside...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/29/2017
Colorful Announces a Bay Trail Mining Motherboard with 8+1 PCIe Slots
This week Colorful has introduced a uniquely designed motherboard, created specifically for the professional miner. One of the first things most will notice is this doesn’t look like most...
31 by Joe Shields on 11/10/2017
Qualcomm Launches 48-core Centriq for $1995: Arm Servers for Cloud Native Applications
Following on from the SoC disclosure at Hot Chips, Qualcomm has this week announced the formal launch of its new Centriq 2400 family of Arm-based SoCs for cloud applications...
37 by Ian Cutress on 11/10/2017
IoT Company Discloses Upcoming Gemini Lake SKUs: Two Pentiums, Four Celerons
A maker of embedded systems has published details regarding pricing of Windows 10 IoT Enterprise licenses in Q4 2017 and has also disclosed the model numbers of Intel’s upcoming...
15 by Anton Shilov on 11/3/2017
Arm Announces New Mali-D71 Display Processor and IP Blocks
Today, Arm is announcing their Mali-D71 display processor and two closely-related IP blocks, CoreLink MMU-600 and Assertive Display 5, angling for 4K VR and HDR implementations on mobile displays...
13 by Nate Oh on 10/31/2017
Samsung’s 8LPP Process Technology Qualified, Ready for Production
Samsung this week announced that its 8LPP fabrication process, which it formally introduced earlier this year, had passed qualification tests. The manufacturing technology will be used to produce advanced...
35 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2017
Taiwan Fines Qualcomm $773 Million for Antitrust Violations
Qualcomm’s global legal issues continue, as the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission (TFTC) fined the company roughly $773 million (NT$23.4 billion) for illegal licensing and chip pricing practices. This development...
10 by Nate Oh on 10/12/2017
NVIDIA Gives Xavier Status Update & Announces TensorRT 3 at GTC China 2017 Keynote
Earlier today at a keynote presentation for their GPU Technology Conference (GTC) China 2017, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang disclosed a few updated details of the upcoming Xavier ARM SoC...
11 by Nate Oh on 9/26/2017
Imagination Technologies to Be Acquired by Canyon Bridge for £550M; MIPS Sold to Tallwood VC
Late this evening Imagination Technologies has announced that they have finally agreed to a buy-out offer. After making noise last month as a potential suitor, Canyon Bridge has announced...
62 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2017
Imagination Joins the AI Party, Announces PowerVR Series 2NX Neural Network Accelerator
In conjunction with today’s PowerVR Series 9XE and Series 9XM announcement, Imagination is revealing a new series of PowerVR-branded hardware IP blocks: the Series 2NX neural network accelerator (NNA)...
19 by Nate Oh on 9/21/2017
Apple 2017: The iPhone X (Ten) Announced
The hot button item expected to come from Apple’s announcement today was the set of iPhones being announced. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were the expected models...
173 by Ian Cutress on 9/12/2017
Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro Launch on October 16th, More Kirin 970 Details
Riding on the back of the ‘not-announced then announced’ initial set of Kirin 970 details, Huawei had one of the major keynote presentations at the IFA trade show this...
14 by Ian Cutress on 9/4/2017
Huawei Shows Unannounced Kirin 970 at IFA 2017: Dedicated Neural Processing Unit
A surprise at this year’s IFA is the previously unannounced Kirin 970 SoC hitting the show floor. Normally Huawei announces a new SoC with plenty of press details, and...
11 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2017
Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X VPU, Featuring ‘Neural Compute Engine’
Today, Intel subsidiary Movidius is announcing the Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU), a low-power system-on-chip (SoC) intended for deep learning and AI acceleration in vision-based devices such...
13 by Nate Oh on 8/28/2017
MediaTek Unveils Helio P23 & Helio P30 SoCs: Premium Midrange for Q4'17 & Beyond
This morning MediaTek is taking the wraps off of their latest SoCs for the midrange phone market. Dubbed the Helio P30 and Helio P23, these are robust upgrades to...
30 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2017
Hot Chips: Google TPU Performance Analysis Live Blog (3pm PT, 10pm UTC)
Another Hot Chips talk, now talking Google TPU.
30 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2017
Hot Chips: Intel EMIB and 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA Live Blog (8:45am PT, 3:45pm UTC)
Today at Hot Chips we have a lot of interesting talks going on. First up is a talk on Intel's latest 14nm FPGA solution: Stratix 10 implementing HBM using...
51 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2017
Hot Chips: Intel Knights Mill Live Blog (4:45pm PT, 11:45pm UTC)
Another talk from Hot Chips, this time on Intel's Knights Mill (KNM). The Intel Knights family stems from their Xeon Phi product line, although KNM is a bit different...
22 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2017
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