Real-time ray tracing on a smartphone—really?
Qualcomm says they can, and will ship it next year.
Meta partners with Qualcomm in a multi-generational VR agreement
The Meta Quest 2 is powered by Qualcomm’s chipsets. The partnership between the two companies is going to continue for the next few Meta product generations. (Source: Qualcomm) Meta and Qualcomm have just announced a multi-year agreement to collaborate on virtual reality (VR) technologies for the next generations of Meta’s products. The two companies have a long history of working … Read more
MediaTek soups up its Dimensity 9000 to a ‘plus’
MediaTek has introduced their Dimensity 9000+, an enhancement to the company’s top-of-the-line 5G smartphone chipset. This new high-end offering, says the company, delivers a boost in performance over the Dimensity 9000 to make the next generation of flagship smartphones even more powerful and efficient. The Dimensity 9000+ SoC uses Arm’s v9 CPU and is built in a 4-nm octa-core process. … Read more
Samsung’s premium Exynos 2200 mobile processor
The Exynos 2200 series of chips was announced on January 18th and is planned for the Galaxy S22, Galaxy Z Fold3, and Flip3 phones. The Exynos 2200 SoC is based on Samsung’s 4-nm processing node. The chip’s GPU is named Xclipse 920 and uses AMD’s RDNA2 GPU IP including AMD’s intersection ray-tracing processors—making Exynos 2200 SoC the first mobile processor … Read more
Asus folds 17-inch laptop in half
Easier to tote, multiple configurations
Steam Deck—another game console win for AMD
If you’re going to go into the game console business, and don’t own a beloved Italian plumber franchise, then you’re probably going to be talking to AMD. AMD’s APU is making a clean sweep of every next-gen console. Valve’s proposed Steam Deck is a portable PC with an integrated 7-inch screen and game controls instead of a keyboard (although a … Read more
The new Arm Mali GPUs and Armv9 architecture
Last year, Arm introduced its Cortex-X1, claiming to have kickstarted the evolution of computing performance. Now they’ve followed that up with the firm’s first Total Compute solutions. Arm says it will provide three pillars of its Total Compute strategy – compute performance, developer access, and security. The CPU cores are the Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-A510, based on Armv9 with SVE2 … Read more
Qualcomm’s NUC-like dev system
Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to build it. The idea of being able to get online anytime, anywhere was undoubtedly appealing. A bit problematic about how to deal with the phone … Read more
Vivo’s new IQOO Neo 5 is going to amaze you
Pixelworks has been building video co-processors and offering IP solutions for mobile devices for some time now. The company is an acknowledged leader in the field and knows how to squeeze zillions of colors out without draining the battery (it’s a black art that seems to defy the laws of physics). One of Pixelworks’ customers is Vivo, a Chinese smartphone … Read more
AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors
AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. AMD addresses security on multiple levels for the new Ryzen Pro 5000 series The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from … Read more
Docomo and Arcturus team up to bring volumetric video to 5G mobile customers in Japan
Last week, Japan telecom giant, NTT Docomo, held its annual open house to introduce its current & future technology and activities. In conjunction with this event, Docomo, and USA/Canadian startup, Arcturus Studio, announced their working collaboration to stream high-quality volumetric videos of any length directly to Docomo 5G mobile network customers. Volumetric videos are characterized large and complex files that … Read more
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 678 for entertainment experiences
Qualcomm Technologies just announced its Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform, a follow-on to the Snapdragon 675 introduced in 2018. The new chip, says Qualcomm, will deliver overall performance upgrades, high-speed connections for sophisticated photo and video capture, and immersive entertainment experiences. Snapdragon 678, says Qualcomm, offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: Qualcomm Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up … Read more