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Smartphone app processors

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Tom Catalino

First, a confession: I didn’t read the full report. It would have cost me nearly €7,000 (or nearly $8,000 US). But fortunately, Don Scansen apparently did, and wrote a good but too brief summary of APU – Smartphone SoC Floorplan Comparison 2024, the Yole Group’s study of smartphone application processors that was published in the […]
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ARM vs. RISC-V

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | Tom Catalino

At Critical Link, we spend a lot of time thinking about processors, and some of that thinking is around ARM vs. RISC-V Instruction Set Architectures, or ISA’s, which are basically the go-between between hardware and software.
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After a decade, there’s a new Arm architecture

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | Tom Catalino

Early this year, after nearly a decade since the release of the Armv8, Arm introduced its new Armv9 architecture. This new architecture is in response to the ever-increasing demand for the specialized processing required to keep up with the explosive growth of the Internet of Things, AI applications, and 5G.
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Gazing into the crystal ball for 2019

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 | Tom Catalino

It’s always good to start off the new year by looking into the crystal ball and trying to figure out what’s going to happen moving forward. Here, I’m looking into the crystal ball via a report that the folks at ARM have recently published. Their 2019 Technology Survey & Predictions: Yes to More Tech, Yes […]
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