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...
NVIDIA's Project Kal-El: Quad-Core A9s Coming to Smartphones/Tablets This Year
NVIDIA just dropped a bombshell. Not only is its third generation Tegra architecture, codenamed Kal-El, back from the fab but it's up and running Android after only 12 days...
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/15/2011
Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
TI Reveals OMAP 5: The First ARM Cortex A15 SoC
TI sure does have impeccable timing. Not 12 hours after we published our LG Optimus 2X and NVIDIA Tegra 2 review, complete with a discussion of the 2011 SoC...
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
NVIDIA's Project Denver: NV Designed, High Performance ARM Core: Updated!
NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Project Denver - its first CPU architecture design ever, based on ARM's ISA. This is a custom design done by NVIDIA in conjunction...
49 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011
Nvidia Tegra 2 - Graphics Performance Update
So I have a confession to make. Before we posted our Tegra 2 performance preview, I ran the Quake 3 demo on the Viewsonic G Tablet and the Samsung...
28 by Vivek Gowri on 12/20/2010
GLBenchmark 2.0 Released - Modern SoCs Benchmarked
We've constantly on the lookout for new benchmarks to use for benchmarking the latest SoCs in devices. Today, Kishonti Informatics released the latest version of its popular GLBenchmark suite...
64 by Brian Klug on 12/17/2010
TI Reveals OMAP4440 Specs: Dual 1.5GHz Cortex A9, 25% Faster GPU, HDMI 1.4 3D, 1080p60
Next year is looking to be a very important year for smartphone and tablet performance. Just as we saw widespread migration to the ARM Cortex A8 and Qualcomm Scorpion...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010
Qualcomm Reveals Next-Gen Snapdragon MSM8960: 28nm, dual-core, 5x Performance Improvement
Earlier today Qualcomm briefed analysts on its Snapdragon SoC roadmap. The current Snapdragon is available in both 65nm and 45nm versions integrating a single Scorpion CPU core running at...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/17/2010
ARM Aims at Intel, Cortex A15 Headed for Smartphones, Notebooks and Servers
Last month TI announced it was the first to license ARM’s next-generation Eagle core. Today, ARM is announcing the official name of that core: it’s the ARM Cortex A15. Architectural...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2010TI First to License ARM's Next-Generation Eagle Core
In our smartphone and tablet reviews we make sure to spend a good amount of time talking about the silicon powering these devices. There’s no reason that handset and...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/9/2010
Intel Unveils Moorestown and the Atom Z600, The Fastest Smartphone Platform?
When I wrote my first article on Intel's Atom architecture I called it The Journey Begins. I did so because while Atom has made a nice home in netbooks...
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2010
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