Google has been hiring and dabbling with its own
custom chip designs, and Microsoft and Qualcomm this year started pushing Windows on ARM as an alternative to the typical Intel - powered laptops.
Apple even went the extra step of building a dedicated neural engine — based on a dual - core
custom chip design — to process face recognition in real time.
Google may only be using one camera in the Pixel 2, but it's got a trick up its sleeve — in the form of a new
custom chip designed in - house called the Pixel Visual Core.
In short, it's
a custom chip designed to help with the Pixel's HDR + image processing — that's the computational secret sauce that makes the Pixel 2 camera so great.
Not exact matches
Google, also an Intel customer, has also been
designing its own
custom chips to help power its machine learning skills, such as the ability to quickly translate languages.
It also makes
custom -
designed chips known as ASICS that are used in networking.
Additionally, Intel faces the potential threat of these companies
designing their own
chips, as in the case of Google, which built a
custom chip for machine learning to which it rents business customers access.
At the launch event this past September, the company announced many upgrades to its Hero camera, including a
custom -
designed chip that enables more stable and higher - resolution action shots.
BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company in the world today announced mass - production of its full -
custom design 16nm Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Chip, which will bring unmatched energy efficiency to the Bitcoin network.
The researchers have
designed a
custom integrated circuit to perform these measurements, in which an artificial cell membrane and ion channel are attached directly to the surface of the amplifier
chip.
«By
designing a
custom microelectronic amplifier and tightly integrating the ion channel directly onto the amplifier
chip surface, we are able to reduce stray capacitances that get in the way of making fast measurements.»
A close - up of a crucial component of an ALMA Warm Cartridge Assembly, a
custom power amplifier
chip designed by NRAO engineers and fabricated by BAE Systems of Nashua, New Hampshire, using a process that enables such amplifiers to work at frequencies above the normal 100 gigahertz limit of commercially available devices of this type.
Chip Foose and WD - 40 Co. are teaming up again, this time to
design a
custom off - road truck that will be the first vehicle built inside the new, state - of - the - art SEMA Garage - Industry Innovations Center.
While the new netbooks share a common system on a
chip, CNX notes that the new laptops aren't actually based on the A64 board itself, but rather on a
custom board that's
designed to keep the laptops thin.
The new
custom -
designed Apple A10 Fusion
chip features the most powerful
chip ever in a smartphone and the iPhone 7 offers the longest battery life ever in an iPhone.
The iPad uses a new
chip that is
custom designed by Apple.
@spartannys It's because Microsoft, unlike Sony who took the
chip straight from AMD, decided to go with a
custom design, which adds to development costs.
She says that «NX has special,
custom - made
chips and the overall
design of the hardware is very modern» with «industry leading»
chips.
Instead, Analogue started from scratch for each system,
designing its own
custom hardware powered by a field - programmable gate array (FPGA)-- a
chip that can be meticulously programmed to act exactly like the processors inside Nintendo's decades old NES and SNES.
The A11 was also the first
chip to ship with Apple's three - core
custom GPU, which it
designed once it had ended its relationship with Imagination Technologies.
That's the premise of SiFive, a startup that's
designed to help entrepreneurs — or any company — come up with a
custom designed chip for their needs.
Intel, the world's largest
chip market, which sells the standard forms of the x-86 line of processors for PCs as well as cloud systems, is now planning to sell
custom designs to public clouds by the end of 2015, a decision that will in fact transform one of the biggest powerhouses of the information age.
It's 70 % faster than the previous version, and Apple
designed a
custom wireless
chip that can deliver faster Bluetooth and Wi - Fi, with more power efficiency.
Since Qualcomm doesn't allow manufacturers to integrate
custom processors into the Snapdragon
chip design, Pixel Visual Core is a standalone, eight - core image processing unit with its own brain and dedicated RAM.
Apple's
custom -
designed A11 Bionic
chip packs six cores — two for high performance and four for high efficiency — as well as a graphics processing unit that is 30 percent faster than the one in last year's iPhone 7.
W1
chip makes for seamless pairing: Apple's
custom Bluetooth
chip, the W1, is
designed to allow for automatic pairing with Apple devices running iOS 10 or later, WatchOS 3 or later or MacOS Sierra or later.
The company already uses
custom -
designed chips in its iPhones, iPads, Apple TV set - top box and the Apple Watch; Macs are the only products still powered by others» solutions.
Most proof - of - work algorithms are limited by computing power, so if you speed up your computer, you speed up the mining process... and it's relatively easy to use
custom silicon to
design a
chip that blows through billions of hashes in no time.
Apple is already using its own
chips in iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, and Apple TV products, so it won't be a major surprise for the California - based company to use
design, build and use its own
custom silicon in future Mac computers.
The iPhone X features a
custom 6 - core
chip designed by Apple.
The
chip also makes use of a
custom Apple
designed GPU which is 30 percent faster than the GPU inside the A10
chip.
According to The Information, Amazon has started
designing a
custom AI
chip for Echo devices, with the purpose of improving Alexa and the quality of her responses as well as her response time.
The Pixel Visual Core is Google's very first
custom -
designed System on
Chip (SoC) that's dedicated to handling image processing when taking photos with the Pixel 2 smartphones.
Google has revealed that its first - ever
custom -
designed system - on -
chip (SoC) has been included in the Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL, but it won't be active on release.
The Apple A11 Bionic
Chip is a 64 - bit ARM - based
Custom SOC
designed by Apple.
Featuring the company's
custom design W1
chip, the AirPods offer up to five hours of battery life on a single charge.
thehackernews.com - Apple Plans to Replace Intel Processors in Macs With its
Custom Designed ARM
Chips, Code - Name «Kalamata,» as early as 2020
Both phones contain a
chip called the Pixel Visual Core, which is
custom -
designed to handle photography tasks like stitching together HDR images and applying machine learning algorithms to improve your photos.
Both phones contain a
chip called the Pixel Visual Core, which is
custom -
designed...
The Pixel Visual Core would be able to be directly integrated into the SoC instead of being a discrete
chip and could be combined with a
custom designed ISP, further improving performance, reducing power consumption and reducing processing time for the camera.
With the help of the Pixel Visual Core — a
custom -
designed image - subprocessing
chip — the Pixel 2 can deliver fantastically lit scenes with just the right amount of detail and color where other phones might fail.
A
custom -
designed Google imaging
chip powers the cameras in both phones: An 8 - megapixel f / 2.4 aperture sensor on front, and a single - lens 12.2 - megapixel rear f / 1.8 aperture rear camera with optical image stabilization, phase detection autofocus, and high dynamic range (HDR).
Advanced Technology Apple pioneered the
custom designed System in Package (SiP) for Apple Watch, and continues to develop this breakthrough technology with the second generation S2
chip.
The new
custom -
designed Apple A10 Fusion
chip features a new architecture that powers these innovations, making it the most powerful
chip ever in a smartphone, while also getting more time between charges with the longest battery life ever in an iPhone.
His engineers
designed custom chips instead of using off - the - shelf semiconductors.
The system - on -
chip contains 8 Google
custom -
designed Image Processing Unit (IPU) cores, each with 512 arithmetic logic units (ILU).
More than just being a dedicated image processing
chip, the Pixel Visual Core is special for being Google's first ever,
custom -
designed SoC or system - on -
chip.
Apple
custom -
designed its own S1 SiP (System in Package) to miniaturize an entire computer architecture onto a single
chip.
With more efficient manufacturing processes and
custom -
designed 64 - bit cores from Qualcomm coming in 2016, the
chip giant will be hoping that Snapdragon 820 will draw a line under a tumultuous year in the high - end space.
securityaffairs.co - In the wake of the discovery of severe flaws in Intel
chips, so - called Meltdown andSpectre vulnerabilities, Apple announced it plans to use
custom -
designed ARM
chips in Mac computers starting as early as 2020.