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Advanced Micro Devices is going to be making lots of system-on-chip devices from now on, but the complexity of technologies and interfaces means it can't afford to mess up too much. The design stage is just one step of creating a marketable device. Verification and manufacture come after, and then the product ... |
15 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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MediaTek makes various connectivity chips and D-Link comes up with routers used in cloud environments, so the two decided to team up for once.
MediaTek has a certain Wi-Fi system-on-chip known as RT6856, based on a 700 MHz MIPS 34KEc CPU core.
It boasts dual PCI Express interfaces, which means that it can handle t... |
3 May 2012
08:20 GMT |
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You might not believe it, but NVIDIA has essentially promised to bring its Tegra mobile system-on-chip to a performance level superior to that of Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console, in graphics at least. As if this alone wasn't enough, the Santa Clara, California-based company said it would happen in two y... |
21 April 2012
06:54 GMT |
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We've spoken about 14nm-based chips before, but now we get to look at a “true” Intel system-on-chip device, one that will further integrate the platform-controller hub (PCH) with the CPU. According to ComputerBase.de, Intel is definitely approaching the time when it can launch a system-on-chip devi... |
17 April 2012
04:19 GMT |
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We learned about the Intel Valleyview system-on-chip devices not long ago, and then even ran upon some early details, but now we actually get to see some of the specifications.
There is still no indication that the Santa Clara, California-based company will launch a consumer-grade version of Valleyview.
Still, we... |
28 March 2012
09:39 GMT |
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We learned about the Valleyview system-on-chip devices from Intel a few days ago, but the information was sparse, to say the least.
VR-Zone managed to provide some actual details on the product series, starting with the correct spelling of the brand name.
At least, we guess it is the correct spelling. Initially, ... |
26 March 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Intel is developing a more advanced generation of Atom central processing units, but now we know just what their name is and how good their graphics are. There are several places on the net that will reveal information on the “Valley View” Atom SoC. Just so you won't have to dig through them your... |
23 March 2012
11:47 GMT |
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The hard disk drive market has some life in it still, as LSI is all too eager to prove through its LSI TrueStore system-on-chip devices (SoCs). Lsi's TrueStore SoCs are the industry's first HDD SoCs to be constructed using the 28nm manufacturing process technology. According to the company, they not onl... |
29 February 2012
09:39 GMT |
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After months, even years of failed attempts to secure a share of the mobile market, Ivy Bridge-delaying Intel is finally making the first real steps towards giving ARM a difficult time. There are several companies announcing Intel smartphones, one of which is Orange, a major player in the UK and France. Its over t... |
28 February 2012
03:19 GMT |
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When compared to dual-core processors, quad-core chips should be faster. After all, they do have double the number of cores.
However, it appears that not all of them can actually deliver the expected performance, and the video embedded above proves it.
What you can see there is a device powered by a Texas Instrum... |
23 February 2012
14:11 GMT |
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VIA is serious about getting in the solid state drive game, so it looked for the sort of processors that may help it put on the best show, eventually deciding on Tensilica DPUs.
VIA intends to build a solid state drive controller chip, but it needed a good dataplane processor for that, or more of them.
As such, it... |
16 February 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Qualcomm, one of the main suppliers of ARM chips for smartphones and tablets, is implied to be having some issues that forced it to delay the launch of some upcoming products.
Like all IT companies, Qualcomm has a product roadmap it tries to stick to as best as it can, but there seem to be difficulties with this go... |
15 February 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Nethra has just announced the impending availability of a system-on-chip, dubbed NI-5035, which can assume a variety of roles.
The NI-5035 is the first member of the N1-5 family of visual platform System-on-Chip (SoC) devices and is composed of several parts.
One is an advanced Image Signal Processor, the second i... |
3 February 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Intel is apparently making good progress with next year’s Haswell CPU architecture, as the company has already finalized the first qualification samples (QS) of these processors, as proven by a picture that has recently popped up online. The image in question shows a chip with no heat spreader and a limited nu... |
28 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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It appears that, with Centerton, Intel will break away from the apparent habit of releasing SoC (system-on-chip) devices that aren't really SoCs. 'Centerton' is the name that Intel has decided to strap on the upcoming low-wattage Atom processing solution, the kind that will be used in NAS servers and... |
27 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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After just yesterday we reported about Intel’s Android tablet plans for the upcoming Medfield SoC, the chip giant has now released some new info about this future Atom CPU that covers mostly its performance when running Google’s mobile operation system.This info was presented in a slide showcased by Intel... |
22 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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In the near future, Intel plans to develop more of its processors as system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices, revealed a high ranking company official in an interview that was just published on the Web. Talking with Nordic Hardware about its CPUs, Pat Bliemer, Managing Director for Northern Europe and Benelux at Intel said:"I... |
8 December 2011
19:41 GMT |
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Now that Ivy Bridge has entered volume manufacturing, Intel has turned its attention towards its next-generation architecture code named Haswell, which was just detailed in a couple of leaked slides together with the Lynx Point chipset.Haswell will be a “Tock” on the chip maker's roadmap meaning that... |
9 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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The first real signs that Intel wasn't doing great in the field of Smart TVs was when it dropped Boxee Box support and, now, iSuppli found that the Google TV project is another venture that the chip giant is backing out of.
To give some context, Intel has, for some time, been trying to expand its business into... |
1 November 2011
04:39 GMT |
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ARM Holdings and Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry UMC have just announced they signed a long term agreement that provides customers of the latter with access to the advanced ARM Artisan physical IP solutions validated on UMC's 28HPM process technology.As a results, UMC's customers will be able to build AR... |
11 October 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Chip maker Qualcomm has just announced a new series of application processors for the mobile industry, namely the Snapdragon S4 SoC (sytem-on-a-chip), with a wide range of enhancements when compared to the previous family of CPUs.
The company has packed the new chips with the latest advancements in the industry,... |
10 October 2011
12:21 GMT |
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In the upcoming year, Intel will intensify its assault on the tablet and smartphone market by releasing two Atom system-on-a-chip devices built using the 32nm fabrication technology, not just one as previously thought.The first one of these chips is known by the code name of Medfield and is the company's first A... |
20 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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With its next-generation of system-on-a-chip solution for mobile devices, Nvidia will push the maximum resolution supported to a whopping 2560x1600, enabling tablet manufacturers to push for never reached before pixel densities.According to Fudzilla, this resolution will be supported by all the other Nvidia SoC devic... |
20 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Nvidia is betting big on the mobile space. The company has launched two generations of mobile chips until now, and the second generation is already one of the most popular SoCs inside dual-core tablet PCs and even smartphones.
The company seems convinced that the mobile space will evolve fast in the coming year... |
12 September 2011
06:02 GMT |
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During the most recent conference call with financial analysts, NVIDIA express quite a bit of optimism in regards to the upcoming successor to the Tegra 2 system-on-chip.NVIDIA is once more making the news, once again in an official capacity, only a short time after the completion of the Quadro 275.89 WHQL display d... |
17 August 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Before the end of the ongoing year, the first mobile devices powered by quad-core application processors are expected to become available on the market, and they should be based on Nvidia's Kal El system-on-chip. Media tablets and high-end smartphones packing the processor are expected to arrive on shelves duri... |
17 August 2011
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In the second quarter of this year, Chinese scientists were expected to tape out the first version of the Loongson 2H microprocessor, but this process has now been delayed by several months for unspecified reasons.
This information was provided by Professor Yunji Chen from the Institute of Computing Technology of ... |
4 August 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Windows 8 is expected to catalyze a shift on the microprocessor (MPU) market, negatively impacting the adoption of traditional x86 CPUs, but nourishing strong growth for ARM processors.
IHS iSuppli forecasts that Intel’s x86 architecture, which includes both 32-bit and 64-bit central procession units, will... |
20 July 2011
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Once again ready to move on to the next step as far as manufacturing nodes are concerned, Samsung is now reaping the benefits of its partnership with several partners, having successfully put the 20nm process to good use.The more advanced a chip manufacturing node is, the better, more power-efficient and cheaper to ... |
12 July 2011
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Intel's mobile version of the 2013 Haswell processors will feature a SoC (system-on-a-chip) design, recently confirmed the Santa Clara chip giant who is planning to introduce this chips in ultra-thin notebooks with prices starting as low as $599.Contrary to today's computer processors, SoC chips incorporate... |
24 June 2011
16:21 GMT |
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While NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices are the best known purveyors of graphics technologies, they don't exactly have such a large stake in the mobile market, where companies like Imagination Technologies are making grabs.The thing about the mobile market is that it has reached a stage where small, handheld pr... |
20 June 2011
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There seems to be no shortage of news involving Intel, only this once reports say that the outfit wants to expend even more as far as clientele goes, choosing to try and make more communications and consumer electronics chips.The past couple of years have seen Intel putting together and enacting some serious busines... |
2 June 2011
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Microsoft is not exactly spreading the Windows 8 love, not with testers outside of Redmond at least, although the company is dogfooding the operating system internally. And it appears that the situation is getting to some PC manufacturers that have started complaining about the drastically limited number of particip... |
25 May 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is not saying all that much when it comes down to Windows 8, but keeping mum on the next major iteration of Windows isn’t stopping the company from denying the latest batch of leaked Windows vNext information coming from Intel. It’s clear that Microsoft is none too happy with the fact that top ... |
19 May 2011
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Microsoft will enrich the collection of Windows offerings with the advent of the next major iteration of the Windows client slated for 2012. Multiple new Windows 8 flavors are currently cooking in Redmond and will be released, expanding on the traditional versions of the operating system. The new Windows 8 spin-offs... |
18 May 2011
04:17 GMT |
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Intel has recently announced that the company plans to discontinue 17 SoC solutions from CE 3100 product family which are to be replaced by the CE 4100 series processors based on the Atom architecture.
The Intel CE 3100 SoC (system on a chip) series was announced in August 2008 at the Intel Developer Forum under t... |
2 May 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Over the course of the last few years, China has been making great efforts trying to develop its own CPUs and it now seems like ICT, the institute behind the development of the Loongson chips, is finally getting ready to tape out the Loongson 2H SoC that is destined to be used in mobile devices.The processor is also ... |
29 April 2011
14:51 GMT |
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At the Intel Developer Forum held in Beijing, China, Intel has announced that the company is working on a new SoC processor, code-named Cloverview, which was specifically designed to be installed inside tablet PCs and is built using the 32nm process technology.
Not so many details regarding the architecture of the... |
13 April 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Now that the Tegra 2 has managed to make its way into an important number of mobile devices and that the quad-core Kal El chips is nearly final, Nvidia has turned its attention towards the Tegra 3 SoC and one of the most important features that are going to add to this core is an integrated Neon 128-bit SIMD engine.
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7 April 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Now that new games are being made and BDXL disks allow for larger PS3 titles, among other things, companies are considering processing platforms for the next generation of game consoles, and it looks like AMD wants in on the cake.Nowadays, there is a serious performance difference between game consoles (Xbox and PS3... |
28 March 2011
09:22 GMT |
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It seems that the latest episode in Intel's struggle to gain a foothold on the mobile market has taken the form of a new acquisition, that of Silicon Hive, a private company based in the Netherlands.
For quite some time, Intel has been seeking better means of entering the mobile electronics market, which is ... |
18 March 2011
03:49 GMT |
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That ARM wants to take away some of Intel's IT share is not a mystery, and it seems that a certain company known as Calxeda is going to try and become one of the first suppliers of server chips and SoCs.It seems that ARM really does have serious plans for entering the server market, even though it was recently ... |
12 March 2011
07:11 GMT |
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With chips based on the ARM architecture getting more and more widespread, Fujitsu decided to enlarge its portfolio, so it entered a license agreement with the company in order to gain access to its IP.Those end-users keeping tabs on the IT market may or may not know that Fujitsu and ARM have been collaborating for ... |
28 February 2011
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NVIDIA has already expressed how enthusiastic it is about its upcoming Tegra 3 chip, codenamed Kal-El, but it seems it might not be able to make the jump to the 28nm manufacturing process.Considering that TSMC will set up its 28nm node this year, NVIDIA would have, naturally, wanted to use it for its Kal-El, said to... |
18 February 2011
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As always, some companies are more eager than others when it comes to engaging in a competition on a new market, and Samsung seems to be among the more determined tablet and smartphone makers if a recent report is to be believed.As end-users know, quite a few tablets have been put on display at the Mobile World Cong... |
15 February 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Intel has long been looking for a way to make a serious incursion into the smartphone business, and it seems its most recent acquisition may help it in that regard, meaning that ARM may have a fight on its hands.ARM has been the more or less undisputed supplier of mobile processors for quite a few years already, whi... |
2 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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During the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, some rumors started to surface stating that Nvidia is having yield issues with its Tegra 2 SoC, but the Santa Clara based company is quick to dismiss these allegations, claiming that its chip doesn't have such problems.
This latest development in the Tegra 2 story co... |
17 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has just introduced its new 28nm digital design flows which will help companies, developing SoCs based on this process, get them ready for manufacturing a lot quicker, effectively reducing their time to market.
According to the company, traditional foundry design flows have not taken into account t... |
14 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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NVIDIA and AMD went through a somewhat difficult period in 2009 and 2010, what with 40nm GPU yield issues, and it seems NVIDIA may be experiencing something similar with the Tegra 2.Intel may have more or less locked NVIDIA out of the x86 chipset business, but the latter is in no way facing similar problems on the A... |
10 January 2011
10:58 GMT |
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The next major iteration of Windows made its first appearance yesterday before Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote address. The introduction that Windows vNext received at CES 2011 is by no means a coincidence. The Redmond company used the event in order to underline the expansion in terms of platfor... |
6 January 2011
05:27 GMT |
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