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Qualcomm Discloses More Snapdragon 820 Kryo CPU Details, Including Four Giant Cores

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Personal Computing, Semiconductor, Smartphone, Wireless / September 28, 2015

Qualcomm has been slowly releasing details here and there about their Snapdragon 820 SoC due out next year. Until then, the company is giving the market little bits of information here and there to keep the market interested and perhaps paying attention. Just a few days ago, Qualcomm announced that the Snapdragon 820′s Smart Protect would …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Do 8 CPU Cores Really Matter in Smartphones?

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Semiconductor, Smartphone, Wireless / May 1, 2020

In a recent live benchmarking session, Moor Insights & Strategy answered the question “Do 8 cores really matter in smartphones?” with a series of benchmarks and real application tests. This brief supports the video with performance and experience results. As the smartphone industry has begun to mature, one-upmanship among smartphone manufacturers and SoC vendors has bred a dangerous …

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RESEARCH BRIEF: AMD Brings New Value to Radeon

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Gaming, Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Semiconductor / May 1, 2020

The PC gaming graphics industry today has very few players but many problems. Today’s PC gaming enthusiast market essentially has only two graphics players remaining, AMD and Nvidia. There is a constant back-and-forth between these two players in terms of bringing new features that gamers want and need. AMD’s new Radeon 300 series does just that while …

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RESEARCH BRIEF: AMD 6th Generation Processor Brings Best-in-Class Game Streaming to Windows™ 10

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Gaming, Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Semiconductor, Tablet / May 1, 2020

Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10, offers gamers new opportunities to stream games and content from their Xbox One to their PCs. This functionality is unique to Windows 10 and requires a certain set of parameters to be met. One of these parameters is ample PC hardware to perform the appropriate decoding for a smooth, high- quality game …

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