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Samsung 8-core Exynos 5 Octa chip revealed with two sets of four cores

Eric Abent — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:51:18 +0000

CES 2013 has already brought some very exciting news about mobile processors, with NVIDIA revealing its Tegra 4 processor during its press conference earlier in the week. Not one to be outdone, Samsung today officially pulled the veil off its 8-core Exynos 5 Octa chip. Comprised of two sets of four cores, the Exynos 5

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ARM announces energy-efficient 64-bit Cortex-A50 processors

Brittany Hillen — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:23:38 +0000

ARM has announced its new Cortex A-50 Series, a line of energy-efficient 64-bit processors. According to the press release, the Cortex A-50 Series is the world’s most energy efficient 64-bit processors “set to drive the next era in mobile and enterprise.” The series is comprised of two processors: the A57 and the A53. First up

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Arm Flycatcher chips aim for “years” of battery time

Chris Burns — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:16:38 +0000

The Arm Holdings group have revealed this week their newest bit of architecture for microcontrollers based on their “Flycatcher” design, noting that this new technology will, amongst other things, offer “years of life from a single battery-pack.” This new architecture will have one third less energy draw than its predecessors, they only offered with 8

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ARM Cortex-M0+ targets low power tech

Ben Kersey — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:16:50 +0000

ARM have today announced an update to the ARM Cortex-M0 MCU, dubbed the Cortex-M0+. ARM say that this new version is the world’s most energy efficient microprocessor, and are targeting its use for sensors and control systems. The M0+ could also works its way into home appliances, lighting and power systems, as well as medical

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LG licenses ARM processor technology for home and mobile market push

Shane McGlaun — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:31:05 +0000

When it comes to the mobile market for tablets and smartphones, ARM is the biggest name on the block for mobile processors and GPUs. ARM has some competition from NVIDIA with the Tegra line, but ARM is certainly the more popular of the two. Intel has no significant presence in the Tablet and smartphone market

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 36 2010

Shane McGlaun — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:38:42 +0000

Welcome to the latest edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Monday we found out that the Samsung Galaxy Tab would cost in the area of $200 to $400 depending on subsidies from wireless carriers. We can assume that the Galaxy Tab will cost on the higher end of that range. Later in the day

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ARM Cortex A15 “Eagle” detailed: 2.5GHz quadcore chip

Chris Davies — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:48:34 +0000

ARM has been muttering about their upcoming Eagle processor for some time, and now the chip has made its official debut. Confirmed as the ARM Cortex A15, it’s a quad-core processor running at up to 2.5GHz and offers, ARM reckon, five times the performance of current generation smartphone chipsets. However it’s also fully compatible with

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iPad Apple A4 SoC a single Cortex A8 chip?

Chris Davies — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:30:09 +0000

Just what’s lurking inside Apple’s iPad? We know the company have developed their own SoC, the Apple A4, but so far there’s plenty of mystery around what exactly that chipset entails. Over at ArsTechnica they reckon it’s a single 1GHz Cortex A8 core and a PowerVR SGX GPU (the latter quietly confirmed last week) based

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ARM Cortex-M4 processor launches

Shane McGlaun — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:12:48 +0000

Processors from ARM end up in all sorts of products from smartphones to automobiles and a myriad of other devices. The company seems to have a processor for just about every need. The latest processor from ARM is the Cortex-M4 that has been unveiled for digital signal control markets. The processor promises high-efficiency signal processing

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Direct Insight TRITON-TX51 squeezes Cortex A8 computer onto a SODIMM module

Chris Davies — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Just how much can you squeeze onto a SODIMM-sized module? If you’re Direct Insight, you can fit an entire 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 based computer onto there: the TRITON-TX51 uses Freescale’s i.MX515 system-on-chip (SoC) as well as 128MB each of RAM and NAND flash memory, two SDIO/SD Card ports, an LCD touchscreen controller capable of driving

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Sony Ericsson Kurara packs PowerVR and Cortex A8

Chris Davies — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:20 +0000

Sony Ericsson’s as-yet unannounced Kurara touchscreen smartphone has stayed still for long enough to get a non-blurry photo, and as you might have guessed it’s mobile-review‘s Eldar Murtazin responsible for the shot. The Kurara was originally described as a more entry-level version of the Sony Ericsson Satio, but according to Mutazin there’s actually a whole

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ST-Ericsson U8500 Cortex-A9 smartphone platform debuts [Video]

Chris Davies — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:56:48 +0000

The ST-Ericsson partnership between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson may only be young – the two firms founded the wireless semiconductor development project in February 2009 – but they’re already showing off some interesting wares. The ST-Ericsson U8500 uses an ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore SMP dual-core processor paired with the ARM Mali-400 OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG1.1 GPU; together,

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ARM officially launches Cortex-A5 MPCore processor for embedded applications

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:40:26 +0000

ARM makes processors that are found and a wide range of the gadgets and consumer electronics devices that we use. Today ARM has announced the official launch of its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor. ARM claims that the new processor is the smallest and lowest power ARM multicore processor that can deliver the Internet to a range

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