AMD has been floundering in terms of a strong direction in mobile since CEO Dirk Meyer was dismissed in January. In a San Jose Mercury News profile, AMD spokesman Mike Silverman spoke about the new direction that AMD is looking to take in 2012. There…
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ARM Launches Android Development Kit with Power Consumption in Mind
Today, ARM announced their new Android development toolkit, Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE). What makes DS-5 special is it’s focus on optimizing apps, not just for performance, but for energy efficiency — provided you’re running on ARM chips, of course. It also claims…
Intel Interested in Mali – Joins ARM as a Graphics Partner
Yesterday ARM released the design for its Mali T658 graphics processor and when it threw up the slide about who they were partnering with Intel was listed as a semiconductor partner.
Given the rivalry between ARM & Intel surrounding CPUs its pretty interesting to see…
ARM Unveils Mali T658 8 Core GPU & 4X Performance Boost
ARM currently dominates the mobile spacce with its CPU licencing model, but ARM also offers GPU cores to its partners, although we’ve seen far more limited adoption compared to its CPU offerings. The limited adoption has nothing to do with a lack of performance, a…
Intel Waiting on Android 4.0 to Release a Smartphone
Until recently Android was specifically customized for ARM processors but Intel joined the game a few months ago by showing off Android on X86. Intel isn’t planning on launching any smartphones until they get Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich up and running. We can…
Qualcomm Announces 30 Snapdragon Tablets for 2012
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM processors are found in a variety of smartphones, but in the tablet area but they are rather rare with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 being the dominant processor. All that is mean to change next year with a significant number of tablets with the…
ARM Cortex-A7 Annouced: A Hyper-efficient Chip for Smartphones
ARM announced the Cortex-A7…, an upcoming processor aimed at sub-US$100 smartphones, as well as in high-end smartphones as a companion chip to the more powerful Cortex-A15.
The A7 has a dual-issue eight-stage pipeline core that has been heavily optimized for power efficiency. It
IQ Istanbul: Qualcomm Snapdragon Roadmap Revealed
IQ Istanbul took place September 13-14, 2011 and gave broad details on their roadmap for their Snapdragon processor. Qualcomm’s …Snapdragon processor is a highly integrated system-on-chip offering for the mobile market. It has high-performance ARM-based processing cores and Adreno graphics hardware next to 3G –
Texas Instrument Looking to Sell ARM Division?
Semi-Accurate has dug up a rumour that says Texas Instruments about to sell its ARM/OMAP division.
Apparently Intel, AMD, ATIC, and Nvidia are interested in picking it up but really, if its true then any one with an ARM chipset would be in the running.…
Freescale i.MX6 Quad-Core Reference Design Hands On
When you think Freescale usually I think eReaders or affordable tablets, so checking out their quad-core reference design puts idea’s of flashier devices in my head. The Freescale i.MX6 platform supports up to four ARM Cortex A9 processing cores and is going to be aimed…
Mobile Monday: “The Smartphone Revolution: Who will Profit from It, and How?”
At Mobile Monday Taipei our very own Sascha Pallenberg took the stage to give a 30 minute speech about “The Smartphone Revolution…: Who will Profit from It, and How?” With tablets and Superphones entering the market there are many people wonder how the chips
Ramos W10 7″ Android Tablet at Computex 2011
Ramos W10 is an affordable Android tablet that has rolled out of Shenzen with every feature you’d want except one a resistive touch screen. If you can get past that this 7 inch display has a resolution of 800 x 480 and an very decent…
Qualcomm Releases ‘Dragonboard’ Aimed at Component Manufacturers
If you’ve ever tried to develop on Qualcomm technologies, i’m sure you’ve run into insurmountable paperwork that seemed laden with intent to get your first born. Last year they announced The Snapdragon loving company has finally listened to reason by releasing an AP development board…
Macbook Air refresh to run on Apple A5 CPU?
Rumors have begun circulating that Apples next iPhone… may be running on its A5 CPU (Truthfully its a Cortex A9). Now the next Macbook Air can be added to the rumored list of products running on the Dual Core processor. As Japanese tech website Macotakara
Windows 8 For Tablets Making a Debut Next Week?
We’ve heard the words Windows 8 for tablets out of Ballmer’s mouth last week and it seems that this week we might get to catch a glimpse of an actual Windows 8 tablet. All Things D is having a conference May 31-June 2 and the…
