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Today Arm is announcing four new products in its NPU, GPU and DPU portfolio. The company is branding its in-house machine learning processor IPs the Ethos line-up detailing more the existing N77 piece and also revealing the smaller N57 and N37 siblings in the family. To top things off, the company is also making ready its first mid-range GPU IP based on the brand-new Valhall architecture, the new Mali-G57. Finally, we’re seeing the release of a new mid-range DPU in the form of the Mali-D37. Introducing the Ethos NPU Family Arm’s NPU IP offering was first announced early last year, detailing its architecture a few months later, and has been publicly been known until known just as “Project Trillium”. Arm at TechCon this year has officially...
Huawei Announces Nova 5 & Nova Pro in China: Introduces New Kirin 810 Chipset
Today Huawei announced the brand new Nova 5 series of smartphones. The company released the new Nova 5, Nova 5 Pro and Nova 5i in China with availability later...
45 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/21/2019
Huawei Clarifies Android Update Situation, Commits to Android Q for Last 2 Generations
Huawei last night launched an information campaign about the status of software updates on existing devices in the face of the company’s troubles with the U.S. Commerce Department. The important...
6 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/21/2019
The OnePlus 7 Pro Review: Outstanding Performance & Screen, Adequate Everything Else
It’s been a month since OnePlus released their new flagship devices for 2019: The OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro. The phone is one of the most awaited devices...
87 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/19/2019
AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?
Back on Monday we saw the surprise announcement from AMD and Samsung revealing a multi-year strategic partnership in which Samsung will license AMD’s graphics IP. Since the announcement, we’ve...
96 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/7/2019
Samsung Galaxy S10 May Firmware Update: Improved Night Mode
We’ve reviewed the Galaxy S10 2.5 months ago now. Amongst one of the discoveries of besides the differences between the Snapdragon and Exynos models was the fact that Samsung’s...
18 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/7/2019
Apple Announces iOS 13: Dark Mode, iPadOS & Files
At today’s WWDC event in San Jose, California, Apple unveiled the newest update to its iOS operating system, iOS 13, as well as its forking of iOS for tablet...
58 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2019
Apple To Drop the iPhone 5s & 6: iOS 13 Minimum Requirement is iPhone 6s
Today Apple announced the new iOS 13 operating system update for iPhones. Among the feature updates of the new OS which we’ll cover in a separate article, Apple is...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2019
Infineon Set to Acquire Cypress for $10 Billion
Infineon on Monday said that it had signed an agreement to take over Cypress Semiconductor, strengthening its portfolio of physical interface technologies. The move will add a set of...
0 by Anton Shilov on 6/3/2019
AMD To License Out Radeon GPU IP to Samsung For Use In SLSI Mobile GPUs
Today Samsung and AMD announced a new multi-year strategic partnership between the two companies, where Samsung SLSI will license graphics IP from AMD for use in mobile GPUs.
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2019
The Apple WWDC 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
We're here in sunny San Jose, California for the annual developer pilgrimage that is Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. One part promotional event, one part trade show, and two...
40 by Ryan Smith on 6/3/2019
Motorola Announces New Moto Z4: Moto's 2019's Flagship
Today Motorola launches the new Moto Z4 (stylised: moto z4). The Z4 follows up on last year’s Z3 and represents Motorola flagship device for 2019. Yet the Z4 isn’t...
85 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/30/2019
Intel Unveils 10th Gen Core Ice Lake-U & Ice Lake-Y Mobile CPUs: 10nm Sunny Cove Later This Year
At Intel’s Keynote presentation here at Computex, the company finally lifted the lid on its first widely available new CPU design on 10nm, called Ice Lake. The official marketing...
190 by Ian Cutress on 5/29/2019
MediaTek Announces 7nm 5G With Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPU Coming
Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem. Even more interesting is the fact that...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/29/2019
Apple Announces New iPod Touch: A10 SoC Inside
It’s been 4 years since Apple last updated the iPod lineup with the 6th generation iPod Touch in 2015. Today Apple did the unexpected and released a hardware refresh...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/28/2019
Arm's New Cortex-A77 CPU Micro-architecture: Evolving Performance
2018 was an exciting year for Arm’s own CPU designs. Last year in May we saw the release of the Cortex-A76 and the subsequent resulting silicon in the form...
106 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2019
Arm's New Mali-G77 & Valhall GPU Architecture: A Major Leap
Along today’s announcement of the new Cortex-A77 CPU microarchitecture, the arguably bigger announcement is Arm’s unveiling of the new Valhall GPU architecture and the new Mali-G77 GPU. It’s been...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2019
EE to Switch On its UK 5G Network on May 30
At an event here in London, the carrier Everything Everywhere (EE) said that it would switch on its 5G network in the UK on May 30. The country’s first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 5/22/2019
United States Rules Qualcomm In Violation of Antitrust Laws - Qualcomm To Appeal
The United States Federal Trade Commission’s case against Qualcomm has just taken an important step. In a ruling released last night, the US District Court judge Lucy Koh issued...
16 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2019
Zoom Zoom: Testing 10x Hybrid Zoom in Dublin with the Huawei P30 Pro and Oppo Reno 10x Zoom
One of the main issues facing the smartphone industry is stagnation. From generation to generation, we see the main smartphone manufacturers gunning for differentiation, and we’ve seen features such...
29 by Ian Cutress on 5/22/2019
The Honor 20 Pro: A Quad-camera Hands-On Review
As a sister brand of Huawei, Honor in the last few years has seen quite a rising success in terms of delivering high value devices. In fact Honor’s smartphones...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/21/2019
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