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Intel’s 80% share of the processor market is a testament to the power of fighter brands to hold back competitors and open up new segments of the market.(More…)

Intel’s processors these days are some of the most efficient products available to date with faster per core performance (comlared to other x86 CPUs), faster iGPUs, better I/O support and a range of new features…

TSMC to be the sole manufacturer of Apple A10, claims HSBC

TSMC to be the sole manufacturer of Apple A10, claims HSBC

According to British multinational banking and financial service firm HSBC, next year’s Apple A10 chip will be manufactured exclusively by Taiwan’s TSMC. In the past, Apple relied exclusively on Samsung to manufacture its custom mobile chipsets, but starting with the A7, it decided to add TSMC t...

Huawei Kirin 950 GPU benchmarks show promising performance

Huawei Kirin 950 GPU benchmarks show promising performance

New leaked GPU benchmarks of the new Huawei Kirin 950 SoC have been leaked online, showing massive gains over the previous-gen Kirin chip. The new Kirin 950 mobile SoC integrates the Mali T-880 GPU, as opposed to the Mali T-628 GPU used on the Kirin 935. As you can see in the slide below, the...

Samsung begins stamping out Apple A9 processors in 14nm FinFET in Texas

[cfsp key=”adsense_336x280″]”Samsung Electronics began production of ‘A9,’ the application processor (AP) for Apple’s next-generation smartphone,” Bae Ok-jin reports for Korea IT News. “It applies the 14nm FinFET, the cutting-edge microprocess for system semiconductors, for the first time.”

“According to industry insiders on December 11, SEC began production of Apple’s A9 in the Austin plant in…

Inside Metal: How Apple plans to unlock the A7 chip’s hidden graphics performance

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“Among the surprises that Apple unveiled at WWDC 2014 is the company’s new Metal framework and shader language, aimed at radically enhancing the hardware accelerated graphics potential of the A7 Application Processor powering the company’s latest iOS devices,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.

“Metal as a technology applies to the GPU (Graphics Processing…

Samsung’s application processor business fell off a cliff in Q4, thanks to Apple

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“A Korean news site this morning picked up on data from a Strategy Analytics report released yesterday,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.

“It revealed that Samsung Electronics’ global mobile AP market share (based on sales) as of the fourth quarter last year fell off a cliff,” Purcher reports. “In the last quarter of 2013, Samsung’s Application Processor…