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OPPO's first in-house AP chip could launch as soon as next year
The Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is reportedly working on an in-house mobile chipset that will power its future smartphones.
Qualcomm and MediaTek may soon have some serious competition in the mobile chipset space. The Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is reportedly working on an in-house mobile chipset that will power its future smartphones.
After Google, OPPO is looking to develop its own chips
After Google, OPPO is reportedly working on its own custom chips that will allegedly make their way to the market by 2023 or 2024.
After months of leaks and rumors, Google finally unveiled its highly-anticipated Pixel 6 series yesterday. The latest Pixel phones are the first from the company to feature a custom chip, called Google Tensor. Google claims that the chip offers significant performance improvements over the one on the Pixel 5, and it also enables a wide array of AI and ML features on its latest flagships. Inspired by Google's decision to offer custom silicon on the Pixel 6 series, OPPO is now reportedly developing its own chips.
[Update: May move forward] U.S. Government considers blocking TSMC from making chips for Huawei
Huawei could be in serious trouble as the US government is considering blocking TSMC from producing Kirin chips for Huawei. Read on to know more!
For close to a year, Huawei has been trying to stay competitive despite dire US sanctions hitting them very hard for certain regions. The company was placed on the Department of Commerce's Entity List, meaning that US companies are barred from exporting products to Huawei. This sole fact by itself is already pretty devastating, as Huawei is blocked from conducting any business with Google, the company behind Android development and Google Play services (software is also considered an export), as well as with companies like Qualcomm. But for the most part, the company has managed to stay afloat, mainly in part thanks to the fact that they can source most of their components from places outside the US and they have access to Android since it's open-source software.
MediaTek announces the Helio P95 SoC with APU 2.0 AI accelerator, HyperEngine game technology, and more
The MediaTek Helio P95 is the successor to the Helio P90 and brings along several improvements across GPU, camera, connectivity and AI. Check it out!
MediaTek has announced a new addition to its Helio family with the launch of the Helio P95 processor. The MediaTek Helio P95 is a successor to the Helio P90 that was launched back in December 2018 and brings along several improvements across GPU, camera, connectivity, and AI.
Samsung is reportedly ending its 'Mongoose' custom CPU designs
Samsung is laying off employees, signalling the end of its custom 'Mongoose' CPU designs within Exynos SoC, in favor of ARM cores. Read on to know more!
Samsung chooses to use its own Exynos SoC in its flagships for the international market, while the same flagships use a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC in select markets like the USA. Within Exynos, Samsung has utilized custom Mongoose cores since 2016, starting with the Samsung Galaxy S7. A new report from Statesman suggests that Samsung is looking to lay off 290 employees, effectively shutting down its custom CPU department and indicating the end of its Mongoose custom cores.
Samsung announces the 7nm Exynos 990 SoC and the 5G Exynos Modem 5123
Samsung has announced the flagship Exynos 990 SoC, which is manufactured on a 7nm EUV process, along with the 5G Exynos Modem 5123 with cutting-edge speeds.
At Samsung Tech Day 2019, Samsung has announced the system-on-chip that will almost certainly power next year's international variants of the Galaxy S11 phones: the Exynos 990. The company has also announced a new cutting-edge discrete 5G Exynos Modem 5123 that is meant to be paired with the Exynos 990.
In order to make Android boot on most hardware platforms, developers usually have to mix open-source code with proprietary files. These so-called blobs are distributed by vendors to support some platform-specific features. Robert Foss from Collabora reported that is now possible to boot Android on i.MX6 platforms without the use of proprietary blobs at all.
We reached out to Qualcomm to get a better look at the Snapdragon 821 processor that is making an appearance in the upcoming Google Pixel and Pixel XL, the Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe, the Xiaomi Mi 5s, and the LeEco Le Pro 3. With the Snapdragon 821 in the Pixel phones running at the same clock speed as the regular Snapdragon 820, many people were asking what benefits the new SoC brings, and why choose it if they’re not going to use the higher clock speeds it can bring.
Team M.A.D. Brings Android 6.0.1 and Full GPL Kernel for Jiayu-Mediatek Devices
A couple of Jiayu devices based on MediaTek SoCs have received their GPL mandated code and their first taste of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow! Read on for more!
It's not always that MediaTek SoC's come in the news, and there are a few reasons for that. Compared to its market competition in the high end like Huawei's Kirin, Samsung's Exynos and Qualcomm's Snapdragon, MediaTek SoC's do tend to fall behind the pack. The difference is not insanely visible in the lower ends, but then the second major problem with MediaTek SoC's shows its face: their lack of GPL-mandated kernel code. The kernel code is often not released at all for a lot of their SoC's, and if it is, it tends to be incomplete and broken. Very rarely do we come across a full GPL-compliant release of the kernel code.
Open Source RISC-V Core Designs, Why Google Cares and Why They Matter
RISC-V is a free and open source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) standard for Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs).
The CPU is one of the most crucial components of our computers, responsible of performing basic calculations, logical comparisons and moving data around. These simple tasks are the building blocks of any more complex operation, and make running our systems and programs possible.
Processor Temperature Results for Tens of SoCs -- How Hot is Your Chip?
TestBird has shared with us interesting data of various SoC's heat performance. This was obtained after systematic steps, so hop on over to know more!
Testbird, a company we've talked about previously, reached out to us to share some interesting data regarding processors that they have collected during their extensive compatibility testing. And some of the results that they shared were quite surprising, to say the least.