Tag Archive for "ARM"

Apr 26, 2012 analysis
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How well does Intel’s new phone work as a phone?

Review: Hands on with the Lava Xolo X900

Intel is now making phone chips, and the first device to bear one, the Lava Xolo X900, is on the market.

Apr 17, 2012 analysis
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Windows on ARM RT = WART

I can't think of a more fitting description

Windows on ARM RT is WART, can you think of a more fitting name?

Mar 27, 2012 Channel
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ARM adds Mali support to the new DS5 suite

GPGPU on mobiles, now with less pain

A few weeks ago, ARM put out their new CPU/GPU compiler suite called Development Studio 5 (DS5).

Feb 27, 2012 Channel
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Intel adds two new phone Atoms, Z2000 and Z2580

High and low end bracket the middle ground Z2460

Intel’s phone chip marketers don’t get the whole Goldilocks thing because they launched the ‘just right’ version first.

Feb 22, 2012 analysis
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Intel vs phones vs ARM vs laptops

Deja vu all over again once again

The following is a modern re-interpretation of an older article on a completely different subject, call it deja vu.

Jan 25, 2012 analysis

How will Intel do in the phone market?

The good, the bad, and the ugly in phone form

With all the pieces of Medfield now known, including the phone itself, the question now is, will it succeed?

Jan 17, 2012 analysis

Intel’s phone reference design is what it needed to be

Solid hardware, competitive with current chips

We have looked at the silicon for Intel’s new phone offerings in the last two articles, but what about the rest?

Dec 14, 2011 Microprocessors

Global Foundries does 20nm

Smaller, speedier

ARM and Global Foundries are jointly announcing two milestones today, a 2.5+GHz A9 and a 20nm A9 tapeout.

Dec 12, 2011 Chips

Basic smartphones to drop below $40

A Chinese ARM-based SoC will enable basic functionality, but not 3G.

The fabless Chinese semiconductor design house Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD).. Updated

Nov 8, 2011 analysis

Looking at AMD amid layoffs and new directions

ARMed and dangerous?

So what’s going on at AMD? With the recent layoffs, we decided to dig a little before we commented, and hopefully add a bit more insight.

Nov 3, 2011 analysis

Calxeda launches a 4-core ARM server chip

1000+ cores in 4U, plus real server features

Calxeda just launched what is quite possibly the most important new chip this year, it will change the game.

Nov 2, 2011 Chips

Say Hello to BeagleBone: A Preview

Has a taste for fruit pies

The $89 BeagleBone features a Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, 256MB of RAM, and pinouts. So many pinouts.

Oct 31, 2011 Chips

ARM does 64 bit

Preparation for invasion of the server market continues

Not much happened at the ARM (LON:ARM) TechCon in Santa Clara last week, but on the final day ARM announced its latest architecture change called ARMJ8 that includes a brand new 64 bit instruction set.

Oct 26, 2011 Chips

HP to do ARM based servers

Major blow to Intel with Lenovo doing MIPS servers…

According to a report from Bloomberg News Service HP (NYSE:HPQ) will start manufacturing servers based on the ARM architecture in a sharp departure from its previous Intel-only design philosophy.

Oct 19, 2011 Microprocessors

ARM and TSMC complete design of 20nm processor

A15s just got smaller than they were last week

ARM and TSMC have just completed the design of a test chip based on the Cortex-A15 processor design according to a press release from the companies.

Aug 5, 2011 Chips

Project Denver is more than a T50 core

Part 3: The rest of the SoC that is Denver... for now

In part two of this series, we looked at the core of Project Denver, aka T50.

Aug 5, 2011 Channel

What is Project Denver based on?

Part 2: A look at the T50 core

There are a lot of misconceptions floating around Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) ‘Project Denver’ aka Tegra 5.

Aug 4, 2011 Chips

A look at Tegra 3, 3.3 and 4

Part 1: Tegra 3 warts lead to a new variant

What’s going on with Nvidia’s Tegra line lately?

Jul 29, 2011 Finance

Texas Instruments selling OMAP division

Laying down their ARMs

Word has reached SemiAccurate that TI is hip-deep in the process of selling off their ARM/OMAP division. Updated August 19th, 2011

Jul 28, 2011 Chips

Is Marvell going to change the ARM game?

A dark horse to watch out for

It looks like a dark horse is going to be the one to watch for the next round of ARM CPUs, Marvell.

Jul 18, 2011 Chips

SeaMicro ups core count to 768 per server

Just when you thought 512 cores was enough......

SeaMicro has upped the core counts of their servers from silly to stupidly high.

Jun 22, 2011 Chips

AMD and ARM join forces at last

Fusion 11: Not what you think, much much more.

Anyone watching the industry knows AMD (NYSE:AMD) and ARM (NASDAQ:ARMH) are up to something together, it is more obvious than two teen-agers giggling when they glance at each other.

Jun 21, 2011 Desktop

ARM and AMD see eye to eye on GPU compute

Fusion 11: Jem Davies talks standards and graphics

At AFDS/Fusion 11, Jem Davies gave a talk about ARM’s view on power and heterogeneous computing

Jun 16, 2011 Chips

Fun Quotes from the AFDS Media Roundtable

S|A @ AMD's Fusion Developer Summit

There were a few interesting bacon-bits to come out of a rather dry media roundtable session, titled “Why Common Industry Standards Foster Innovation”, with representatives from AMD, ARM, and a certain Redmond, Washington based company.

May 30, 2011 Chips

AMD is the fourth WARM, Windows 8 tablet partner

Computex 2010: There is a fifth too.......

Remember when we said there was a fourth WARM partner yesterday?

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