Tag Archive for "ARM"
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.
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?
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).
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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