by Gary Sims, 2 weeks ago

Without a doubt the Galaxy S4 is one of the major Android smartphone launches of 2013 and so far it looks like Samsung is going to sell millions of these devices. However the Galaxy S4…

by Robert Triggs, 3 weeks ago

There’s a good chance that your smartphone is running an ARM-based chip, and you’ll definitely be using one if you’re planning on picking up the latest HTC or Samsung handsets.  The company pretty much corners…

by Gary Sims, 4 weeks ago

The Raspberry Pi has created a mini-revolution among enthusiasts, hobbyists and those keen on learning programming and hardware design. But the $35 Raspberry Pi is now facing some stiff competition from the BeagleBone Black. The latest revision of the Beagle…

by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago

We love our mobile devices, and we love our computers. Tablets are fun, and smartphones are just about necessary to our lives, now. The computer just does so much we can’t really get away from,…

by Robert Triggs, 1 month ago

If you weren’t overly impressed by the ARM Cortex-A15 powered Exynos 5 Octa benchmark that we posted the other day, I have some good news for you hardware enthusiasts. ARM and manufacturer TSMC have issued a joint press…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 2 months ago

The Exynos 5 Octa (said to be powering the Galaxy S4) contains a PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU, instead of a Mali design from ARM. What does that mean for the user experience? When Samsung unveiled…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

A newly published analysts report has investigated the potential performance of the the upcoming processors from Nvidia and Qualcomm and concluded that the Tegra 4 will outshine the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. However the caveat is that the conclusion is based…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Yesterday ARM announced that five other major chip manufactures including Fujitsu Semiconductor and MediaTek have licensed its big.LITTLE architecture. Now the company has started showing off what the new architecture can do when placed in Samsung’s hands. To…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

There are several reasons why ARM has been successful on mobile devices (while others like Intel have struggled). One of the key reasons is the low power consumption of the ARM architecture. However ARM is fighting an on-going battle…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 2 months ago

Lenovo’s IdeaPhone K900 might have not been the shiniest star of last month’s CES (darn that Xperia Z), but it was definitely in the top 3. I mean, what was not to like about that…

by Robert Triggs, 3 months ago

Credit: Wikipedia We recently had a look at the up coming Exynos 5 Octa, and dispelled some of the myths about octo-core processors. But some of you in the comments were peering even further ahead…

by Varun Raj, 5 months ago

Samsung has announced a new ARM Cortex-A7 processor which features 14nm technology for its future devices. The powerful new chip brings many performance improvements over the previous chips. The new design Samsung has introduced is…

by Varun Raj, 5 months ago

Are you an Android kernel developer? If yes then we have got great news for you. Those who develop kernels for Android devices know how frustrating porting a kernel to a new device has always…

by Gary Sims, 5 months ago

There have been lots of companies that designed and built CPUs over the years including HP, Sun, IBM, DEC, VIA and of course Intel, AMD and ARM. Most of these companies have either switched to Intel or are only…

by Gary Sims, 5 months ago

Most of us have compartmentalized lives, we have home and family; friends and our social circles; and work. Some people keep these three separate while some people merge them. One device that we use in all our circles…