Samsung's Exynos 5422 & The Ideal big.LITTLE: Exynos 5 Hexa (5260)
Samsung announced two new mobile SoCs at MWC today. The first is an update to the Exynos 5 Octa with the new Exynos 5422. The 5422 is a mild...
35 by on 2/25/2014The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 28 - MWC 2014 Mobile Show
After popular demand, here is our Mobile World Congress 2014 Mobile Show in podcast form. Recorded live from Mobile World Congress 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug...
18 by on 2/25/2014The AnandTech Mobile Show - MWC 2014 Edition
Earlier this morning (Barcelona time) Brian and I sat down in front of a camera and recapped some of the major news at MWC. We talked about the new...
23 by on 2/25/2014Intel Talks Atom Z3460/Z3480 (Merrifield), Z3560/Z3580 (Moorefield) and LTE at MWC 2014
For the past couple of years Intel has used MWC as an opportunity to update us on its mobile plans. This year is no different as Intel officially launches...
42 by on 2/24/2014Imagination's PowerVR GX6650: Competition for Mobile Kepler
Ryan touched on this in his excellent deep dive on Imagination's PowerVR Series 6XT GPU architecture earlier today, but I wanted to specifically call out the new high-end from...
16 by on 2/24/2014Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC): The New 32-bit Flagship Until 805
As Qualcomm continues to move its SoCs to 64-bit ARMv8 based cores, there's still demand for high-performance 32-bit solutions today. We're still some months away from Snapdragon 805 showing...
13 by on 2/24/2014Snapdragon 610 & 615: Qualcomm Continues Down its 64-bit Warpath with 4/8-core Cortex A53 Designs
The unexpected arrival of Apple's first 64-bit ARMv8 core (codename: Cyclone) at the end of last year forced a transition to 64-bit sooner than expected. Silicon vendors keep telling...
26 by on 2/24/2014ZTE Announces Use of Qualcomm CMOS PA as March Towards RF360 Continues
Today at MWC Qualcomm announced ZTE will be the first smartphone customer to ship with Qualcomm's CMOS Power Amplifier, a part of its RF360 front end solution. This is...
7 by on 2/24/2014SanDisk iNAND Extreme in 2014: Finally a Good eMMC Solution for Mobile?
For the past couple of years we've been focusing more on tracking storage performance within smartphones and tablets. For the most part, we've come away disappointed. With smartphone ASPs...
7 by on 2/24/2014NVIDIA Adds LTE to Tegra Note 7
As Brian, Josh, Ian and myself prepare to head to Barcelona for this year's MWC, NVIDIA makes its first announcement before the show: the Tegra Note 7 will now...
21 by on 2/21/2014AMD Center Giveaway: ASUS Radeon R7 250
Lately there's been a lot of excitement around value video cards. Part of it is due to the simple fact that for low resolution gaming, you can generally approximate...
1570 by on 2/20/2014NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan Black: No Compromises for Gaming & Compute
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan was an absolute beast when it launched. With 7.1 billion transistors and an architecture that separated itself from high-end consumer GPUs, the Titan was worthy...
45 by on 2/18/2014HTC Advantage: Free Repairs for Cracked Screens in the First 6 Months of Ownership
Ahead of MWC and hot on the heels of its announcement that the next HTC flagship smartphone will be unveiled on March 25, HTC is introducing a new program...
14 by on 2/18/2014ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015
ARM has been doing a good job figuring out its PR strategy as of late. In the span of a couple of years we went from very little outward...
41 by on 2/11/2014Intel Reveals New Haswell Details at ISSCC 2014
As of late, Intel has been unusually guarded about releasing information about its microprocessor designs. Haswell launched last year with great architecture disclosure, but very limited disclosure about die...
44 by on 2/9/2014ASUS Chromebox: Fanless Haswell in a NUC-like Form Factor, Starting at $179
With hopes of chipping away at the low end Windows PC market, Google enlisted ASUS' help in putting together a small form factor desktop machine running Chrome OS. The...
64 by on 2/4/2014Some Thoughts on Lenovo's Acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google
Earlier this evening Google announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to hardware manufacturer Lenovo for a deal valued at just below $3 billion. Given my fondness for the Moto...
77 by on 1/29/2014It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100
Around 15 months ago, AMD announced that it would be building 64-bit ARM based SoCs for servers in 2014. Less than a month into 2014, AMD made good on...
124 by on 1/28/2014Intel System Giveaway Part 2: High Performance Core i5
Late last year Intel came to us with an interesting proposition: using Haswell CPUs and Intel SSDs, we had to come up with four of our best system builds...
4911 by on 1/17/2014AMD Kaveri Docs Reference Quad-Channel Memory Interface, GDDR5 Option
Our own Ryan Smith pointed me at an excellent thread on Beyond3D where forum member yuri ran across a reference to additional memory controllers in AMD's recently released Kaveri...
127 by on 1/16/2014