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MediaTek's new 6nm Kompanio 1300T chip is built for 5G tablets
The MediaTek Kompanio 1300T is aimed at Chromebooks and offers powerful performance, 5G capabilities, and more.
MediaTek on Tuesday announced the Kompanio 1300T, the company's latest chipset designed for computing devices. A direct successor to the Kompanio 820, the new chipset mainly targets tablets this time around rather than Chromebooks and claims to deliver powerful performance and a premium multi-media experience along with 5G capabilities.
ARM announces the Cortex-A78C CPU for laptops with up to 8 big cores
ARM has announced the Cortex-A78C CPU for laptops. It enables support for CPU clusters with up to eight cores and has 8MB of L3 cache.
In May, ARM announced its latest IP for mobile in the form of the Cortex-A78 CPU, Mali-G78 GPU, and the Ethos-N78 NPU. The company also announced its Cortex-X Custom (CXC) program, with the Cortex-X1 being the first CPU core under the program. The program allows for customization and differentiation beyond the traditional roadmap of ARM's Cortex products. The company says it has seen great success with this generation of ARM-based processors and the rapid expansion into markets outside of traditional phones. Now, the company is looking to address some of these markets with its latest CPU product, the Cortex-A78C.
Future ARM big core CPUs will drop support for 32-bit apps
ARM has announced that future ARM Cortex-A series CPUs will be 64-bit only, starting from 2022, and thus dropping support for 32-bit.
In May 2020, ARM announced its 2020 CPU lineup, consisting of the ARM Cortex-A78 A-series CPU core and the new ARM Cortex-X1 core, the first coming under the Cortex-X custom CPU program. The new cores haven't made their way to any shipping devices yet - users will have to wait for early 2021 to see phones powered by the new IP. That's the way ARM announces its new products: the ARM Cortex-A77 CPU core, announced in May 2019, only made its way to shipping phones in February 2020. The ARM Cortex-A78 and the Cortex-X1 are 64-bit cores like their predecessors, but they also have hardware support for old 32-bit apps. ARM has now confirmed that this will change, though. Future ARM big cores, that includes the Cortex-A as well as the Cortex-X CPU cores, will become 64-bit only starting 2022.
ARM announces the Cortex-A78 CPU and Mali-G78 GPU designs for high-end Android smartphones
ARM has announced the Cortex-A78 CPU architecture as well as the Mali-G78 GPU. The two are the successors of the Cortex-A77 CPU and the Mali-G77 GPU.
As part of its TechDay 2020, ARM has made three major announcements. The headline major announcement is the Cortex-X Custom program (CXC), containing the new Cortex-X1 CPU core. The Cortex-X1 brings to bring higher peak performance than any Cortex-A series CPU, while breaking the envelope of the Cortex-A series' PPA. The other two announcements that ARM made were a lot more routine. The Cortex-A78 CPU and the Mali-G78 CPU are now official, and they act as the successors of the Cortex-A77 CPU and the Mali-G77 CPU respectively. Let's cover these announcements one-by-one:
ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple
ARM has announced the Cortex-X Custom program (CXC). The first high-performance core under the custom program is the ARM Cortex-X1. Read on to know more!
Each year in May, UK-based ARM, owned by Japan-based Softbank, announces its new Mobile IP (intellectual property) for use in mobile devices. This IP consists of new CPU cores as well as new GPUs. ARM's instruction set is used in every smartphone in the world - it's a crucially important company. In terms of CPU core architectures, from 2021, every major mobile chip vendor of note will use ARM's stock CPU IP (as Samsung System LSI has given up on its Exynos M custom cores). That's why, it's doubly important that ARM gets things right. Now for this year, ARM has announced the ARM Cortex-A78 CPU architecture and the Mali-G78 GPU, the successors of the Cortex-A77 CPU, and the Mali-G77 GPU respectively. While these announcements were expected, what was not expected was for ARM to announce another CPU core in the form of the Cortex-X. For years, tech reviewers and users have bemoaned the fact that Apple's CPU architectures are multiple years ahead of ARM's Cortex-A series. With the Cortex-X CPU program and the Cortex-X1, this may finally change in 2021.