What is Apple doing at 14nm?
Analysis: 20nm long decided, 14nm choices will shape everyone's options
There has been a lot of speculation about Apple and fabs lately, so let’s go over what SemiAccurate is hearing.
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The Backstory: Samsung chose Qualcomm chips for the Galaxy S4
Analysis: The plot deepens a bit, as do some bank accounts
One possible reason that Samsung chose a Qualcomm SoC for their Galaxy S4 phone was brought to our attention a few days ago and SemiAccurate looked in to it
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Why is Samsung looking to Qualcomm?
MWC 2013: Confirming rumors leads to more questions
Samsung is backpedaling on it’s “in house only” CPU pledge for phones, but why, not who, is the most interesting question.
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Nvidia’s Maxwell process choice
Analysis: 28nm versus 20nm in 2014
The first few scraps of information about Nvidia’s Maxwell generation are coming out, and they have some really serious implications.
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Qualcomm is the last big SoC vendor to join the HSA foundation
All aboard, or is it all onboard?
HSA Foundation LogoIt looks like the HSA foundation just got a new member, Qualcomm.
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Texas Instruments shutters consumer OMAP lines
The only course of action left after sale faltered
Last week Texas Instruments announced that they were scaling back their OMAP division for smartphones and tablets.
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Hot Chips talks all about chip stacking, good and bad
Hot Chips 2012: 2.5D, 3D, and 3D+ are all not quite here yet
Hot Chips 24 had their usual tutorials on the first day, and this year the second topic, chip stacking, was of particular interest to SemiAccurate.
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HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface
WART is no longer welcome at most OEMs
Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface?
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Qualcomm moves majority of production to Global Foundries
Just like we said over a month ago
Recently, Qualcomm has been the subject of many rumors on fabbing and capacity.
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Qualcomm has Imagination
As far as stopgap GPUs go, damn good choice
It looks like Qualcomm is going to pull a fast one on the industry and use an Imagination GPU for their quad-core S4 parts.
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Lenovo launches hybrid ThinkPad
Only one question remains: Do you really want one?
It sounds almost too good to be true, but Lenovo (HKG:0992) is launching an X1….
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Qualcomm looses the branding hounds
This is the start of something big
Remember when we said that Qualcomm decided to bang the branding drum really hard at Computex?
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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?
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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.
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Qualcomm demos MSM8260/8660 and more
Computex 2011: But that is not the big news
Qualcomm was showing off their new Snapdragon CPU/SoCs at Computex, but that wasn’t the big news.
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