Samsung has officially launched its new mobile processor — Exynos 980. It’s the company’s first mobile processor that has an integrated 5G modem. Previously the processors have only been 5G-ready chips that would need a separate 5G modem. Huawei’s upcoming Kirin 990 is also supposed to have built-in 5G modem. The fact is that the…
The new Kirin 970 was announced at IFA 2017, Berlin. Neural Processing Unit makes the new Kirin platform 20-times faster.
Qualcomm has just announced its new mobile platforms for mid-range devices and they actually could deliver performances like in high-end. New Snapdragon 660 and Snapdragon 630 Mobile Platforms (or more System-on-Chips as you have known previously) carries high performance proprietary Kryo and ARM’s Cortex-A53 cores. The new Snapdragon 660 and 630 are supposed to provide…
With the announcement of Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platform, the chip maker has brought the 4G/LTE connectivity to entry-level feature phones. Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platform is the first product launch under its new hardware terminology of a “mobile platform” instead of a “processor”. The new platform includes the Qualcomm 205 System-on-Chip with baseband functionalities and hardware components such…
After around a decade since the launch of the Snapdragon brand name, the dominant chip maker — Qualcomm has announced that it’s no more a “processor”. Instead it’s a platform now — the Snapdragon Platform. From now-on, Qualcomm will be referring to – what was previously said to be a Snapdragon processor – as a “Snapdragon Mobile Platform”. For extant,…
Samsung has announced the new Exynos chipset based on its proprietary 10nm FinFET process technology which was first announced with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835. To compete with Qualcomm’s counterpart, here it is – Exynos 9 series 8895. The new Exynos 9 chip promises to provide up to 27% higher performance and 40% lower consumption than previous…
Qualcomm has announced their flagship processor for high-end smartphones – Snapdragon 835 will be built in collaboration with Samsung. The chip maker has skipped the Snapdragon 830 and instead has introduced the next flagship processor SoC as Snapdragon 835, which will be built on Samsung’s 10nm FinFET process is set to ship in devices during…
Samsung has announced mass production of a System-on-Chip (SoC) products built on its third-generation 10nm FinFET manufacturing process. Company’s previous 14nm process based chips were the Exynos 8890 and the Snapdragon 820 which have powered up a variety of high-end smartphones last this year. Any specification about what kind of SoC the mass production is undergoing, but you can…
