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ARM and TSMC have announced that they have completed the tape-out of the first ARM Cortex-A57 processor. The processor was taped-out on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET technology. ARM says that this new processor is its highest performing and is designed to extend the capabilities of future mobile and...

Your current smartphone just took another spin backwards on the obsolescence cycle thanks to a new landmark from ARM and TSMC: the first Cortex-A57 has reached the "tape out" stage, meaning it's ready for mass production. The new chip will use TSMC's 16nm FinFET technology (though the transistors...

Today some interesting rumors originating from China have surfaced. The local manufacturer Huawei is reportedly working on a direct Galaxy S4 competitor with a 4.9-inch 1080p display and a quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A15 processor. The rest of the rumored specs include 2GB of RAM, Mali T604 GPU, a...

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Adds to its ARM based offerings

Adds to its ARM based offerings

Making the chips a reality

I stopped by Allwinner today to discuss their recently announced and now-shipping A31 SoC . The A31 is based around four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs and a Power VR SGX544MP2 GPU, all built on TSMC's 40nm G process. In addition there's a fifth power saver (likely A7) core on A31 which has a lower frequency,...

Earlier this morning Samsung announced a new eight core SoC and the spiritual successor to the Exynos 5250 "Exynos 5 Dual" called the Exynos 5 Octa (Exynos 5410?). This new SoC combines four ARM Cortex A15s and four ARM Cortex A7s, which is pretty much ARM's exact big.LITTLE reference design...

Huawei brought some great Android smartphones to CES - the Huawei Ascend Mate shocked everyone with its gigantic 6.1-inch screen…