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ARM Unviels DynamIQ Dynamic big.LITTLE CPU Clusters
Over the past decade, ARM has established a stranglehold on the mobile CPU market. Starting from the simple single core designs, the CPUs have grown to dual, quad and even octa-core configurations. To make better use of higher core counts, ARM introduced the big.LITTLE designs with 2 core clusters, with one…
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Razer Paying Gamers to Use its Cortex Software
Peripheral maker Razer has launched a new “pay to play” scheme to encourage gamers to use its free Cortex PC performance-boosting software. You won’t be getting money to use the software, though: the company is including Cortex in its new zVault points initiative. zVault points can be used to purchase…
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Intel Scraps Broxton SoC
Following lower-than-projected earnings last quarter, which marked a huge drop from its record 2015 Q4 revenues, Intel has announced that it is pulling the plug on its Broxton Atom SoC processor family. Broxton was pitched by Intel as its entry into the high-end mobile processor market, competing against the likes…
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ARM Displaying Their Latest Technologies @ CES 2016
CES 2016: ARM are one of the biggest tech companies in the world, chances are you’re using dozens of their products right now and you don’t even know it! They make the tiny processors, sensors and more that go into so many pieces of technology all around the world. At CES,…
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ARM Sheds New Light on High-End Cortex-A72 CPU
At yesterday’s annual Tech Day event, ARM shared more details about their upcoming Cortex-A72 architecture. Set to replace the current A57 performance chips, this new replacement is set to be faster, more efficient, and doing it all with a smaller die. While the A72 is the high-performance successor, it’s still largely based on…
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MediaTek’s Latest Helio SoC Will Let You Record 4K Videos at 120 FPS
The Taiwanese mobile chip maker, MediaTek, is reportedly working on a high-end SoC lineup named Helio, which the company states will compete with its rivals, Qualcomm and Samsung. The company has revealed its latest SoC at a recent conference in Beijing, where the company’s executive explained how MediaTek is going…
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Rumor: Nexus 6 To Feature 64-bit 8-core Processor
Whether or not it is true, rumors still remain and they point to the next (Google) Nexus 6 handset having a high-end 64-bit Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset. It is still too early to make presumptions at this time, though Digitimes cites an article from China’s Economic Daily News. Reports…
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Octa-Core Exynos-based Chromebook To Be Released In 2014 By Samsung
Samsung Electronics is said to release a Chromebook equipped with its Exynos 5 Octa 5420 next year, according to an article from Business Korea. It is a successor to the Exynos 5250 Chromebook that hit the market last year. The report states that the Exynos 5 Octo 5420 is an…
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Mali GPU Shipments Set to be up Five Times in Three Years
When we look at mobile graphics, ARM is not a brand that springs to mind, but when we take into consideration the number of digital TVs and Android based tablets that there are, ARM’s presence is a little more profound than some may think. Due to the increased popularity of…
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