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Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs subsidiary develop processors that can well compete with those from AMD and Intel. This week AWS introduced its Graviton4 SoC, a 96-core ARM-based chip that promises to challenge renowned CPU designers and offer unprecedented performance to AWS clients. "By focusing our chip designs on real workloads that matter to customers, we are able to deliver the most advanced cloud infrastructure to them," said David Brown, vice president of Compute and Networking at AWS. "Graviton4 marks the fourth generation we have delivered in just five years, and is the most powerful and energy efficient chip we have ever...
Hands-on & More With Huawei's Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro: Kirin 970 Meets Artificial Intelligence
This morning Huawei is taking the wraps off of their latest generation flagship smartphone, the Mate 10 series. Powered by subsidiary HiSilicon’s Kirin 970 SoC, the new phones are...
103 by Ian Cutress on 10/16/2017
Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro Launch: Live Blog (2pm CEST, 8am ET, Noon UTC)
Huawei is having a launch event for its new Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones. The key headline for these devices is going to be the support for...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/16/2017
TSMC Teams Up with ARM and Cadence to Build 7nm Data Center Test Chips in Q1 2018
TSMC has announced plans to build its first test chips for data center applications using its 7 nm fabrication technology. The chip will use compute cores from ARM, a...
12 by Anton Shilov on 9/14/2017
Huawei Shows Unannounced Kirin 970 at IFA 2017: Dedicated Neural Processing Unit
A surprise at this year’s IFA is the previously unannounced Kirin 970 SoC hitting the show floor. Normally Huawei announces a new SoC with plenty of press details, and...
11 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2017
Kontron Merges with S&T, Gets Access to Software, Manufacturing
Kontron and S&T Deutschland Holding on Monday announced that shareholders of both companies have agreed to merge the two companies. Kontron, which is known for its servers, small form-factor...
2 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2017
ARM Announces Mali-G72: Bifrost Refined for the High-End SoC
While the bulk of the focus in today’s ARM announcements is on major launch of the first CPU cores to support ARM’s DynamIQ topology – the Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A75...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2017
Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55
Another year, another TechDay, and another ARM facility (this time in Cambridge, UK)—can only mean new ARM IP. Over the span of several days, we got an in-depth look...
104 by Matt Humrick on 5/29/2017
AT20 Giveaway Day 15: ARM Connects You with Chromebooks
With a warm welcome to Tuesday, we’re now on day 15 of our 20 day giveaway celebration of AnandTech’s 20th anniversary. Today’s prizes come courtesy of ARM. While not a...
516 by Ryan Smith on 5/16/2017
ARM Announces Mali-Cetus, Their Next-Generation Display Processor
This morning ARM is taking the wraps off another new product in their Mali graphics portfolio: the Mali-Cetus. The oddly named product (ed: this is a codename, not the...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2017
ARM Announces Mali-C71: Their First Automotive-Grade Image Signal Processor
ARM’s success in the CPU IP field has and remains the cornerstone of the company, but it has not been a company that sits idle. Over the years &ndash...
12 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2017
Lenovo Launches 2-in-1 Flex 11 Chromebook: Quad-Core SoC, 4 GB RAM, from $279
Lenovo has announced its first 2-in-1 Chromebook designed specifically for consumers. The Flex 11 laptop is powered by an SoC with four ARM cores, features a 360° hinge, a...
30 by Anton Shilov on 4/22/2017
ARM Launches DynamIQ: big.Little to Eight Cores Per Cluster
Most users delving into SoCs know about ARM core designs over the years. Initially we had single CPUs, then paired CPUs and then quad-core processors, using early ARM cores...
35 by Ian Cutress on 3/21/2017Bosch and NVIDIA Team Up for Xavier-Based Self-Driving Systems for Mass Market Cars
Bosch and NVIDIA on Thursday announced plans to co-develop self-driving systems for mass-market vehicles. The solutions will use NVIDIA’s next-generation codenamed Xavier SoC as well as the company’s AI-related...
43 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2017
Mediatek Announces the P25: A Faster P20 with Support for Dual Camera
With all the smartphone-based talk about the leading edge of the industry focusing on upcoming 10nm chips, it might be easy to forget that the majority of smartphones sold...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/8/2017
AMD Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against LG, MediaTek, Sigma Designs, and Vizio
Late last month, AMD filed a legal complaint against a number of companies accusing them of infringing its patents covering graphics processing technologies. The company requested the United States...
76 by Anton Shilov & Ryan Smith on 2/4/2017
Samsung Announces Updated Notebook 9, Odyssey, and Chromebook Plus/Pro
Today at Samsung’s CES 2017 press conference there were a number of announcements for their mobile PCs. At a high level, this includes the Notebook 9 refresh, a new...
19 by Joshua Ho on 1/4/2017
ARM Announces Mali-G51 Mainstream GPU, Mali-V-61 Video Processing Block
These days ARM and its customers are in the midst of a major evolution in GPU design. Back in May the company announced their new Bifrost GPU architecture, a...
23 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2016
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Huawei announces the HiSilicon Kirin 960: 4xA73 + 4xA53, G71MP8, CDMA
Last year we had the opportunity to attend HiSilicon's launch event of the Kirin 950. The 950 SoC was the first to employ ARM's Cortex A72 in a smartphone...
43 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 10/19/2016
Gen-Z Consortium Formed: Developing a New Memory Interconnect
Anyone tasked with handling the way data is moved around a processor deserves praise. It takes time, dedication and skill to design something that not only works appropriately and...
15 by Ian Cutress on 10/12/2016
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