NVIDIA has announced its new 64-bit ARMv8 "Denver" SoC for Android, which is the successor to its Tegra K1 chip. The company is very confident of the chips abilities and claims that the "Denver" SoC offers the same performance found on some PCs.
Samsung announced two new mobile processors at MWC 2014. The Samsung Exynos 5422 Octa and the Samsung Exynos 5260 Hexa. Both support high-resolution displays, including Quad HD (2560 x 1440 pixels) and WQXGA (2560 x 1600 pixels), making us wonder if a Quad-HD version of the Galaxy S5 may be introduced later this year.
Marvell has announced its new Armada PXA 1928 chipset at the MWC on Tuesday. The SoC includes a quad-core, 1.5GHz Cortex A53-based CPU and a full HD-capable GC5000 GPU. The SoC also supports a number of connectivity options including LTE TDD/FDD, HSPA+, TD-HSPA+, and EDGE. It even supports VoLTE service.
It looks like Qualcomm wont be the only chipset maker to announce 64-bit mobile processors at the MWC. Intel has unveiled its own LTE-ready, 64-bit Atom processors.Qualcomm has just announced the Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor, which has eight 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 cores. It will be joined by the Snapdragon 610 quad-core processor, which is also 64-bit capable.Qualcomm has just announced its new Snapdragon 801 chipset, which sits between last year's top processor, the Snapdragon 800 and the yet unreleased Snapdragon 805.Nvidia has officially unveiled its new Tegra K1 mobile processor which comes with an impressive 192-core Kepler GPU. The Nvidia Tegra K1 will first come in a combination of that new Kepler graphics chip and a quad-core Cortex A15 (plus one shadow A15 core) in the first half of 2014.Qualcomm has just announced its newest fastest chipset, the Snapdragon 805, which leaps ahead of the current Snapdragon 800 and is bound to be a name to be reckoned with in the year ahead.
NVidia has announced the upcoming availability of its latest mobile SoCs, the Tegra 4i and Tegra 5. The processors themselves will be available in the first quarter of 2014, and devices powered by them will probably be available no later than the second quarter of the year.
Intel may have fallen behind in the mobile market, which is currently dominated by ARM processors, but they have been slowly pushing their way back into our mobile devices. In response to the new wearable device boom Intel has unveiled its new line of "Quark" processors, which it plans to be used on smart watches and other wearables.
MediaTek has announced the world's first true octa core processor. Unlike the Samsung Exynos 5 octa-core processor, which only uses four active cores at a time, MediaTek's processor runs all eight cores at the same time. This results in smoother gaming, web browsing and video playback along with improved battery performance. MediaTek also claims that the eight cores can be used without overheating
Snapdragon BatteryGuru is an Android app by Qualcomm which helps improve your battery life on devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. The app is currently in beta stage and is designed to help manage the connection that various apps have with the Internet. Once you install the app it will learn how your apps interact with the Internet and will use what it learns to make your apps within 2 – 4 days.
Last year LG stated that they would be building mobile processors in house for their smartphones. This report has been confirmed over the weekend by a Korean publication which cites an unnamed LG official as its source.
The Samsung Exynos 5 Octa offers four Cortex-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 cores using the ARM big.LITTLE architecture, aimed at achieving the best power consumption and consumption ratio. The following video demo shows how the Exynos 5 Octa handles general tasks on a reference board which was on display at the ongoing MWC.Intel looks to be continuing on track to make a name for themselves as smartphone chip manufacturers. The company has announced their line of dual-core Atom (Clover Trail+) processors. They are built using the 32nm architecture and known as the 2.0 GHz Z2580, the 1.6 GHz Z2560 and the 1.2GHz Z2520. Intel promises industry leaving performance with their hyper-threading technology and battery life which will match current high end devices. The company plans to transition to 22nm Atom SoCs late this year.Recent speculations have been suggesting that Samsung will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chip instead of their own Samsung Exynos 5 Octa in their upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV. This report has been further confirmed by a new source who also has cited overheating as the reason that the manufacturer chose to Qualcomm’s chip instead of their own.A new report claims that Samsung may be using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset on their upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV instead of the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor. The reasoning behind this is the thermal envelope and the power consumption of the company’s home brewn processor.With Qualcomm having secured a strong position in the ARM processor market and big manufacturers like Samsung building their own chips, NVIdia has been finding a hard time finding support for their Tegra 4 chip. However Toshiba is looking to be one manufacturer who plans to embrace the chip on its tablets.