“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10,” said Microsoft dev Jerry Nixon, speaking at the Ignite conference in 2015. A quote that hasn’t aged particularly well, a lot can change in 6 years. Maybe it’s Microsoft’s focus on bringing ARM […]
Jim Keller and the State of the Union at Intel
We’re only a few days into 2021 and it’s already shaping up to be a year of shakeups. Sony market share in decline in its native Japan, Elon Musk becomes the richest man in the world, and a tectonic personnel change hits Intel. Jim Keller, Guru tier Microprocessor Engineer, a true doyen in the field, […]
Nvidia set to purchase ARM for $40 billion
The rumours spreading around were spot on this time around. Nvidia as tentatively stepped up to buy ARM for a whopping $40 billion. This massive sale of the chip designer company will bring Nvidia into a more giant chip maker than it ever was before. ARM has always been an open license designer that offered […]
Raspberry Pi 4 announced
The latest Raspberry Pi has just been released. The 4th generation for micro computer brings with a pretty extensive list of upgrades that truly bring the popular SOC into a much higher level of computing, and all starting at the same price. The new device starts by offering Broadcom BCM2711 Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) […]
ARM post financial results for Q2 2013: £171.2 million in revenue with £86.6 million in profit before tax
ARM have posted their financial results for Q2 2013, reaching a total revenue of £171.2 million and a net profit of £86.6 million before taxes. Their revenue sees an increase of 26-percent year of year with profit being an even 30-percent increase. Obviously with the future of smartphones and tablets getting bigger and bigger, ARM […]
Samsung announce new Exynos 5 Octa chipset: 20-percent increase in CPU performance
Samsung have announced an update to their Exynos 5 Octa chipset. The new chipset will continue to be based on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture with the Cortex A15 clock speed jumping from 1.6GHz to 1.8GHz and the Cortex A7 jumping from 1.2GHz to 1.3GHz. This will see a 20-percent increase in CPU performance overall. The GPU […]
Nvidia announces Tegra 4 : Cortex A15 Quad-Core chip
Nvidia today have finally announced the expected Tegra 4 chip and pushed out all the details we have been waiting for now for some time. The new chip is based on the Cortex A15 and is the first to do so and has a whopping 72 GPU cores which undoubtedly pushes it six times head of the […]
Samsung announce Exynos 5 dual core processor
Samsung have just announced their latest mobile processor which is the Exynos 5. The processor is slated to take smartphones and tablets to the next level with unprecedented performance. Below is a schematic of the new architecture that will be used for the next series of processors. The Exynos 5 is based on the ARM A15 processor […]
Microsoft have announced that Windows 8 will drop on the October 28th
Microsoft have announced that Windows 8 will officially be released on October 28th. It was expected to be release around that time, but we didn’t have a specific date, Microsoft have made it clear now. Their next big Window OS release will drop months from now. Windows 8 brings with it more changes than any […]
ARM unveil quad core Cortex-A15 chip
ARM have just unveiled there latest quad core processor. This quad core CPU is on the Cortex-A15 28nm architecture, the chip is also boasted to have the clocks speeds of up to 2GHz. ARM have stated that the new chips will have a hard macro design. This means that specifications on each chip will be fixed instead of allowing […]