Mediatek announces its flagship 4nm+ Dimensity 9300 SoC
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Octa-core CPU with Cortex-X4 and Cortex-A720 cores and ray tracing-capable GPU

Mediatek has officially announced its flagship Dimensity 9300 SoC which should be coming to phones pretty soon, at least in China. This 4nm+ SoC brings an "all big CPU design", combining four Cortex-X4 and four Cortex-A720 cores and a 12-core Immortalis-G720 GPU with hardware ray tracing. Mediatek promises impressive performance gains across the board, including CPU, GPU, and AI with the new 7th gen APU.

ARM unveils new CPU cores for Exynos chips
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Along with Immortalis G720 GPU

ARM has unveiled its next-generation CPU and GPU cores – the Cortex-A520, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-X4.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 7 series to get A710 and A510 cores
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Might be called Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

According to the latest rumor, upcoming Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7 series SoC could end up with four Cortex-A710 and four Cortex-A510 CPU cores.

Cortex X speeds up phone by 30 percent
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High-performance PC SoCs too

Qualcomm introduced Prime core clocked rest from the cluster with Snapdragon 865, and Huawei had two higher clock performance cores in Kirin 990. With that in mind, ARM has introduced the Cortex-X custom program. The result is up to 30 percent peak performance compared to previous generation Cortex A77 cores.

ARM Cortex A78 to power 2021 phones
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20 percent faster 5nm optimized

The next generation of phones mostly expected in early 2021, will come powered by Cortex A78 new core. The new Cortex A78 will improve performance by up to 20 percent in the same power envelope.

ARM announces Cortex A76 for 7nm
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Laptop class performance in 2019

Before we even start, we want to make clear that Cortex A76 - the successor of the flagship A75 today - is targeting both phones and laptops with a big focus and four times improvement in ML and AI performance.

ARM’s Cortex-A32 could bring in major changes
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Smaller boards

ARM’s new ultra-compact processor core could be exactly the sort of cheap tech that the internet of things is waiting for.

Snapdragon 820 Successor drops its custom core
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Exclusive: It will use ARM Cortex

Fudzilla has confirmed that the Kryo core might be the last custom developed CPU core from Qualcomm, at least for now.

Samsung unveils second generation FinFET Exynos 8890
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Octa core 14nm Cat 12 LTE modem

Samsung has officially unveiled its second generation FinFET processor and dubbed it Exynos 8890.

ARM announces new Cortex-A35
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Claims that it is the most efficient

British chipdesigner ARM has announced details of its new Cortex-A35 64-bit processor and it has a swathe of new features.