Intel's continued drive to stake a serious claim in the mobile device market continued today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where it unveiled its latest System - on -
Chip Architectures for Smartphone and Tablet devices.
Engineers have been speculating about 3 - D
chip architectures for years, but the change in skills and tools needed to build such devices is so radical that the feat has never found investment sufficient to do the job.
Not exact matches
Tesla's head of Autopilot hardware and software, Jim Keller, worked at AMD
for years and helped develop its current Ryzen
chip architecture.
The Sandy Bridge
chip architecture,
for example, was created in 2005 — before YouTube — in anticipation of the explosion of online video.
In 2006 it introduced CUDA, a parallel computing
architecture that allowed researchers to run extremely complex exercises on thousands of GPUs, taking the
chips out of the sole realm of video games and making them accessible
for all types of computing.
He has also driven many financing deals, including financing
for the acquisition of ARM Holdings Plc. (world's largest
chip architecture developer), issuing mandatory exchangeable bonds backed by Alibaba Group Holding Limited (largest e-commerce company in the world), hybrid bonds, and more.
For the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so - called neuromorphic computer
architectures —
chips that mimic the human brain's ability to be both analytical and intuitive in order to deliver context and meaning to large amounts of data.
Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales have invented a radical new
architecture for quantum computing, based on novel «flip - flop qubits», that promises to make the large - scale manufacture of quantum
chips dramatically cheaper — and easier — than thought possible.
«Flip - flop qubits: Radical new quantum computing design invented: Radical new
architecture for quantum computing, based on novel «flip - flop qubits,» promises to make the large - scale manufacture of quantum
chips dramatically cheaper and easier.»
Microsoft is readying a Surface that would be based on an ARM
chip and would run Windows RT which in turn is a version of Windows 8 that has specially tweaked to allow
for its smooth operation on an ARM
architecture.
Apple gave the iPad a superfast A7
chip with 64 - bit
architecture and paired it with a new M7 co-processor
for motion tracking.
As
for tech specs, you're looking at a LED - backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, A7
chip with 64 - bit
architecture and M7 motion coprocessor, support
for Wi - Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, 1.2 MP front - facing FaceTime HD camera, 5MP rear - facing iSight camera and 1080p video - recording capability.
The 9.7 - inch iPad Pro is powered by A9X
chip with 64 - bit
architecture and M9 coprocessor in order to effortlessly deal with various professional apps and hardcore mobile games, and the 9.7 - inch Retina display features 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution, 264ppi pixel density and wide color display as well True Tone display so that you can get more excellent graphics performance
for your favorite multimedia content and graphical work, and built - in four speakers deliver more immersive entertainment experience.
We're used to see AMD Fusion
chips on netbooks, but the low power
architecture recommends them also as solutions
for tablets.
If you look at the CPU
chip for the 360 and PS3, and the programming models and
architecture, they came up with completely different solutions.
Further research on the APK from the shield revealed that the game
for in fact was running on an emulator, the most interesting thing to note here is that the Shield has a very similar
architecture to the Switch, both devices share the Tegra X1
chip powered by NVIDIA.
Nvidia introduced its new Pascal
architecture earlier this year, but that technology is not ready
for the Tegra
chip going into the Switch.
While it has been confirmed that Nvidia's Tegra
chip will be powering the console but according to leaked specs
for the console, it will also feature a Maxwell
architecture based Nvidia GPU with 256 CUDA cores and 1024 TFLOPS per second.
Event: The Present Is the Form of All Life: Time Capsule Sealing Ceremony at Pioneer Works In conjunction with Pioneer Works» historic exhibition on 1960s / 70s
architecture collective Ant Farm (best known
for their installation Cadillac Ranch and 1975 performance Media Burn) and
Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb's contemporary group LST, visitors will have the chance to contribute images from their smartphones to a new time capsule that's been built on site.
Nvidia says the
architecture's life began as a design
for mobile products (i.e. laptops), rather than a
chip for desktops.
More often than not, laptop - based graphics cards will carry an «M» badge at the end of their name (the GTX 980M,
for example), which denote that while the core
architecture is in the same family as their full - sized brethren, many of the
chips inside have been clipped and hemmed at the seams in order to make something that will fit squarely into your saddlebag.
The new iPad features the Apple - designed A10 Fusion
chip with 64 - bit desktop - class
architecture, delivering 40 % faster CPU and 50 % faster graphics performance1
for seamless multitasking and graphics - intensive apps.
Both Microsoft's phones and tablets already share a fairly common hardware
architecture: They run on ARM - based (s armh)
chips,
for example, and use flash memory
for storage.
From within the device, an A11 Bionic
chip with 64 - bit
architecture operates with a choice of 64 GB or 256 GB
for onboard storage.
If Apple were to once again revert to producing its own
chips, it would mean switching from the x86 instruction set at the heart of Intel processors to the ARM
architecture, which has become the standard
for smartphone
chips.
On the performance side, Apple's new A11 «Bionic»
chip has a new six - core
architecture that features two cores
for heavy lifting, along with another four cores
for improved energy efficiency.
That's all good news, but it's not as though this is the first 5G
chip or the first
chip to make use of a crazy new CPU or GPU
architecture, or a new memory technology,
for a big leap forward.
Along with the Core i9 processors, Intel is also announcing i5 and i7 processors
for laptops, which will also be based on the company's 14nm + +
architecture (known as Coffee Lake) instead of the first wave of the eighth - generation Kaby Lake R
chips, which were enhanced versions of the same 14nm +
architecture of the seventh - generation chops.
It's also true that Intel has not had much luck in releasing
chips made
for the smartphone market in general, as
chips with ARM - based
architecture dominate that space.
ARM
chips use big.LITTLE
architecture, using more powerful cores
for tasks that require it, and efficient cores
for everything else.
The new iPad features the Apple - designed A10 Fusion
chip with 64 ‑ bit desktop - class
architecture, delivering 40 % faster CPU and 50 % faster graphics performance
for seamless multitasking and graphics - intensive apps.
The recently announced Intel Core X-Series,
for instance, uses both the older Skylake
architecture and the newer Kaby Lake
architecture, depending on the
chip.