Analyst talks MediaTek Helio X30, Kirin 960 and Snapdragon 830 all at once

Artemis Fowl was a book I never read while in school, but you’ll be reading a lot about a certain “Artemis” in a bit.It’s the codename to ARM’s new 10nm-based mobile processor that’s to replace the Cortex-A72. The A72 is the two-core powerhouse that tops the ten-core packages that are MediaTek’s Helio X20 and X25 chipsets. But as we’re already talking about the Helio X30, we’re ...

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ARM’s ‘ultra-high-efficient’ Cortex-A35 processor targets the ‘next billion smartphones’

What do Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, Nvidia and innumerable lower-profile Chinese chip makers all have in common? ARM designs, that’s right, without which the billions of smartphone and tablet sales figures of the last few years, both low and high-end, would have probably been much harder to achieve.Of these, apparently energy-efficient Cortex-A7-based processors alone accounted for more than a billion shipments, with ARM Holdings intent to “deliver the benefits of 64-bit computing to the next billion smartphone users and beyond.”Yes, the A7 was 32-bit-capable, but its ...

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