During today’s iPhone keynote, Apple announced the new A7 chip, featuring supercharged graphics powers and a new motion-sensing "M7" chip that enables all of iOS 7’s powerful new features. Let’s take a look under the glass at the speedy monster that makes the magic happen—and will open the door to all sorts of new apps in the future.
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Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa processors have thus far been of a variety that allows for four of the eight cores to be used at one time. This will no longer be the reality beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, however, with Samsung announcing that with the use of Heterogeneous Multi-Processing the Exynos 5 […]
Sources are telling me the new iPhone’s A7 chip is running at about 31% faster than A6. I’m hearing it’s very fast.
— Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris) August 25, 2013
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Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar
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It would appear that the folks at Intel are not giving up – by any means – on their ventures into the smartphone and tablet universe as a roadmap of processor architecture leaks today. This selection of next-generation hardware will be used in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Android 4.2 devices, leaving Windows RT in […]
The brain’s an incredibly rich and complex computational core that we don’t really fully understand—but that isn’t stopping IBM building a new form of computing architecture around what’s happening inside our heads.
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Earlier today, tech media outlets were buzzing because Qualcomm’s VP Anand Chandrasekher presented a deck of slides (to a media group in Taiwan) that included a very specific message: among the things that are “dumb”, “Eight-core CPUs” make it to the top of the list.
This comes in the context of Qualcomm being under pressure from the press, and sometimes for the public, to release an “8-core” processor. Why? Basically because “8>4” – if you listen to the common wisdom. Samsung for example, has had ample marketing success with its Exynos Octa 5 “8-core” processor launched at CES 2013. Mediatek is another company that is getting a lot of attention lately because it claims that it will be the first company to launch what they call a “true 8-core” processor for mobiles (official product page). (more…)
Are More Cores, Better? original content from Ubergizmo. 
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In response to a question about whether Qualcomm will create an eight-core processor like MediaTek’s upcoming model, Senior VP Anand Chandrasekher told a Taiwanese publication “we don’t do dumb things.” He added that “you can’t take eight lawnmower engines, put them together and now claim you have an eight-cylinder Ferrari.” Instead, he said Qualcomm is focused on good modems, long battery life and affordability, rather than “simply throwing cores together.” Though MediaTek had no comment on that, it claimed earlier that all eight cores in its upcoming CPU can operate at the same time to improve stability and battery life — unlike the Exynos 5’s big.LITTLE configuration, for instance. Whether you agree with Chandrasekher or not, eight seems better than four, meaning most CPU outfits — including Qualcomm — will likely jump on the octa-core bandwagon.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets
Via: PC World
Source: Taiwan Media Roundtable
Motorola unveiled its X8 computing system earlier this month alongside the announcement of its new line of DROID handsets. Although the new system wasn’t discussed in too much detail, we learned that it harbored 8 cores consisting of a dual-core offering from Qualcomm, a quad-core processor, a single core nature language processor, and a single […]
This week SlashGear had the opportunity to have a chat with Murthy Renduchintala, EVP of Qualcomm Technologies, about the company’s most recent earnings report and the launch of their next big-name processor: Snapdragon 800. This smartphone processor is part of the next level, one of a family of processors introduced earlier this year and deployed on a number of hero devices for companies like HTC and Samsung with the Snapdragon 600. Now it’s time for the 800 to shine.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 has been tapped to be released on a couple of confirmed products already in the past several weeks. We’ve seen the massive Sony Xperia Z Ultra sporting this processor with its 6.4-inch display on one hand, and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 LTE-Advanced appear on the other.
The Samsung model comes to serve as an example of where Qualcomm is headed with LTE as well, bringing LTE-Advanced connectivity to the world even as they aim for multi-band with what’s called RF360. This global radio RF360 was introduced earlier this year as a solution for the problematic fragmentation of LTE connectivity beginning to affect the planet.
Renduchintala suggested that this problem will, when Qualcomm begins its spread of Snapdragon 800 architecture, be a thing of the past. The Snapdragon 800 will be deploying with the global RF360 as a front-end solution. And – good news for Qualcomm lovers – the Snapdragon 800 won’t be too hard to find soon enough!
As Renduchintala said, “Virtually every global OEM with a premium tier smartphone is designing with a Snapdragon 800 in the coming months.*” His one limit was that this collection of manufacturers was just *aside from those who make their own processor architecture.
So though that could very well mean Samsung with their Exynos processor family, for example, the Galaxy S 4 LTE-A already fills that gap. So say hello, everyone else with premium hardware in their pipeline, you’ve got Snapdragon!
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 coming to “virtually every global OEM” in the coming months is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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