Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 benchmark shows up
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 05 September 2018 18:26

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 benchmark shows up


A significant step forward in Geekbench 4

The press usually relies too much on benchmarks but they at least tell you that a subject A is better or worse than subject B. The recently posted GeekBench of Snapdragon 855 shows that the new 7nm SoC from Qualcomm scores much better than its predecessor.

Huawei shows off 7nm Kirin 980 SoC
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 31 August 2018 16:35

Huawei shows off 7nm Kirin 980 SoC


Octa-core SoC with dual NPUs

Huawei is obviously going after its competition with its latest Kirin 980 SoC, which is all about being the world's first SoC in many categories, including the first made on TSMC's 7nm, the first with Cortex-A76 cores, dual NPUs, and plenty of other things too.

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:22

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm


Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo

The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.

Qualcomm samples next gen 7nm platform
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:40

Qualcomm samples next gen 7nm platform


Snapdragon Takes Aim at 5G with 7nm SoC

Qualcomm just sent out the official press release saying it has started sampling its next generation mobile platform for consumers in 7nm. This 7nm platform can be paired with Snapdragon X50 5G modem creating the first 5G capable mobile platform for premium tier smartphones and other mobile devices.  

ARM notebook future leans on 5G
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 17 August 2018 14:02

ARM notebook future leans on 5G


Always connected at 7nm and 5nm

ARM has already shared with the press and analyst that the company expects to ship Cortex A76 based products in both 10 and 7nm in late 2018/early 2019, but now it has disclosed a few more details about its 7nm Deimos and 7/5nm Hercules parts.

AMD Zen 2 rumored to offer 10-15 percent IPC uplift
Published in PC Hardware


Might even bring higher core count to AM4

According to recent rumors, AMD's Zen 2 architecture will bring impressive IPC performance boost and could even bring a higher core count, all thanks to the new 7nm manufacturing process.

Sony H8526 gives glimpse of Snapdragon 855
Published in Mobiles


Double single score performance since SD 835

Sony has a very tight relationship with Qualcomm and it is one of the early adopters and 4G MIMO innovators in the market. The last H8526 codenamed device has shown up at Geekbench and performed some 30 percent faster than Snapdragon 845 powered XZ2 phones.

Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2
Published in AI
Friday, 15 June 2018 12:34

Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2


High bandwidth is the key

There is an interesting story that's very little known about the public cooperation that has happened between AMD and Xilinx about HBM memory.

After Navi 7nm comes Next gen 7nm+
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 06 June 2018 11:14

After Navi 7nm comes Next gen 7nm+


2020 at the earliest

What Taiwan native David Wang - VP of AMD's Radeon Technologies Group - wanted to share the world at Computex is that Vega 14nm was a new architecture while Vega 7nm is a die shrink. Just think of it like Intel’s tick–tock cycle that got broken at 14nm a few years back.

AMD to show Vega 20 at Computex
Published in Graphics
Monday, 04 June 2018 10:56

AMD to show Vega 20 at Computex


7nm Instinct only

AMD is getting ready to showcase the Vega 7nm GPU that will exclusively be used for Artificial Intelligence (AI).