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Samsung and Ambarella from ASIC collaboration for hybrid camera SOCs

, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [1]

Samsung and Ambarella have announced that they have formed a collaboration that will have the two firms developing camera SOCs for smartphones and other devices that offer lots of features and resolution. The new SOC is called the Ambarella A7 hybrid Soc and it uses Samsung's 45nm low power process technology. Read The Full Story

TI OMAP4440 processor debuts: 1.5GHz dualcore, 3D 1080p and more

, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Texas Instruments has announced its latest mobile processor, the TI OMAP4440, a SoC packaging a pair of 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPUs along with two ARM Cortex-M3 cores to power-efficiently offload time-critical and control tasks. Coupled with the POWERVR 3D graphics engine, that provides a quoted 1.25x increase in graphics performance (including 2x faster HD video playback, with support for 1080p60 and 3D stereoscopic 1080p) and a 30-percent cut in webpage loading times. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm next-gen Snapdragon MSM8960 detailed: LTE, CPU & GPU boost, more

, Nov 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm has outed the first in its next-generation Snapdragon family, the MSM8960, a dual-core chipset with around 5x the performance of the original Snapdragon, 4x the graphics performance, and an integrated multi-mode modem supporting both 3G and 3G LTE. Expected to being sampling in 2011, the MSM8960 will be built on 28nm processes, and use 75-percent less power than the first-gen Snapdragons. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu 3D 360-degree car camera system gets new SoC

, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Reversing cameras on cars and trucks aren't new, but Fujitsu has been working on a full 360-degree system that could give a seamless view around a vehicle from just four cameras.  The wrap-around video system consists of the new Fujitsu MB86R11 2D/3D "Emerald L" Graphics SoC and the companion developers toolset; the end result is a 3D hemispheric view of the vehicle's surroundings from a dynamically definable perspective or "free eye point." Read The Full Story

Marvell unleashes tri-core Armada 628 processor for smartphones and tablets

, Sep 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Marvell is content to let the other companies on the smartphone and tablet processor market smile about their dual-core offerings as it tosses the world's first tri-core processor for smartphones and tablets into the spotlight. The new processor is called the Armada 628. The new processor is a SoC design that has three high-performance ARM cores and operates as the world's first commercially available heterogeneous, multi-core applications processor. Read The Full Story

Intel’s 15nm Atom plans previewed

, Sep 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel's tiny chip ambitions have been revealed, thanks to a roadmap forecast slide the company prepared for IDF 2010 this past week.  According to the image, Intel are looking ahead to CPUs as small as 15nm; it's unclear from the slide, though, whether the number of processor icons indicate product ranges, number of cores or just general potency. Read The Full Story

TI unveils industry’s first 2.4GHz SoC for ZigBee RF4CE remote controls

, Sep 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

TI has unveiled a new SoC that is the first in the industry to use 2.4GHz tech for a fully optimized ZigBee RF4CE remote control. The new SoC is the TI CC2533 and it will enable single chip remote controls to be constructed that need low power and offer higher reliability and are cheaper to construct. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360′s Vejle SoC gets detailed: so good they artificially hobbled it

, Aug 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has come clean on the new SoC powering their refreshed Xbox 360 console, and the Vejle CPU/GPU combo is certainly worth a second glance.  Produced for Microsoft by IBM and GlobalFoundries, using 45nm processes and designs from the company's own engineers, Vejle is in fact so efficient that an artificially-limiting FSB was added to scale performance down to previous 360 levels. Read The Full Story

TI grab pole position in ARM Eagle next-gen cores

, Aug 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Texas Instruments are the first company to sign up to ARM's new Cortex-A series processor core, ARM Eagle.  Launched at Computex 2010, Eagle takes its place at the high-end of ARM's portfolio, and will form the basis of TI's next-gen OMAP chipsets. Read The Full Story

Nintendo 3DS’ 3D chip revealed as DMP PICA200

, Jun 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Rumors regarding which graphics chipset might be powered the Nintendo 3DS have been circulating for some time - NVIDIA's Tegra was one common suggestion - but the actual supplier has turned out to be a Japanese company with a somewhat lower profile.  Digital Media Professionals has just announced that it supplies the 3D graphics core for the 3DS, in the shape of their DMP PICA 200 GPU. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Intel Atom Oak Trail, Canoe Lake and super-skinny netbook design revealed [Video]

, Jun 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel's latest Atom plans have been revealed at Computex 2010, and unsurprisingly the company are looking to tablets along with netbooks.  Intel Atom "Oak Trail" is the tablet and ultra-sleek netbook platform, a SoC designed for fanless devices with extended battery life and 1080p HD video, while the "Canoe Lake" innovation platform takes the new Pine Trail N Atom CPUs - with their boosted performance but frugal power requirements - pairs them with DDR3 memory and squeezes them into "razor-thin" netbooks like the 14mm thick dual-core machine teased last month. Video overview after the cut Read The Full Story

Intel Tunnel Creek Atom SoC debuts

, Apr 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel have outed their latest Atom based SoC, Tunnel Creek, at IDF 2010 this week, a combined chipset intended for embedded applications, straightforward consumer electronics and making previously dumb devices - like printers - "intelligent".  Tunnel Creek takes a standard Atom processor core, complete with display controller, GPU, memory controller and audio, and allows manufacturers and OEMs to link to it directly via a standard PCI Express interface; according to Intel the GPU packs 50-percent more graphics performance than existing Menlow chipsets. Read The Full Story
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