Snapdragon 835's second cluster is a Cortex A53
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 18 January 2017 08:53

Snapdragon 835's second cluster is a Cortex A53


4x Kryo 280 and 4x Cortex A53

Ever since Fudzilla received confirmation that the Snapdragon 835 will be an eight-core 10nm processor, we wondered about the power-efficient cluster. Now we can confirm that one performance cluster is made from four Kryo 280 cores and the second is powered by Cortex A53 cores. 

Helio X30 shaping up at 10nm
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 10 October 2016 11:11

Helio X30 shaping up at 10nm


2x A73, 4X A53 and 4X A35

MediaTek has started making rather unique chips and its strategy was even followed by some of its competition. Helio X20 / X25 was the world’s first deca-core SoC that did a decent job, but Helio X30 again packs deca-core with an impressive alignment. 

MediaTek shows world’s first Android TV 6.0
Published in Graphics


Cortex A53 Quad with Mali T860 GPU

MediaTek has showed us a quad core Cortex A53 based MT5596 running Android TV 6.0 nearly a year after Fudzilla saw Sony's  Android TV 5.0 at CES 2015.

LG Nuclun 2 SoC pushed to 2016
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 22 October 2015 09:19

LG Nuclun 2 SoC pushed to 2016


Will add an Intel LTE-A modem

LG has been trying to make and launch a decent inhouse SoC. The first attempt was a limited success and now the company plans a successor –  the LG Nuclun 2 to launch in 2016.

MediaTek announces Cortex-A72/A53 quad-core tablet SoC
Published in Mobiles


28nm MT8173 is a big.LITTLE quad

MediaTek is definitely Qualcomm's number one competitor in the smartphone space, and the company has just announced rather interesting product for tablets as well. 

Thursday, 24 April 2014 10:50

ARM: Shift to 64-bit SoCs accelerating

But the focus is on low-end designs

Monday, 24 February 2014 09:20

Qualcomm launches octa-core 64-bit part



Turns out Qualcomm engineers are dumb after all