ALTHOUGH THERE’S NO real problem as such with today’s micro HDMI connector found on many mobile devices, a better alternative has been co-developed by ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics which relies on the royalty free DisplayPort standard. This might seem as an odd move in a way, but let us explain the advantages of what the MYDP standard has to offer over HDMI.
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WE’VE ATTENDED A FEW, well, let’s call them briefings at the Mobile World Congress, all hosted by various industry leaders ranging from chip and device makers to service and content providers and some of what was said was very interesting while other parts were almost laughable. What became painstakingly clear though, mostly based on comments from the hardware makers, is the fact that the cost of wireless access isn’t where anyone but the network providers wants it to be.
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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SEMIACCURATE’S MOLES TOLD us the dirty little secret of Windows Phone 7, no one pays for it. Yes, to compete with Google’s price for Android, free, MS is charging the same price, just not directly.
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EARLIER TODAY WE had a chance encounter with a Norwegian company called CUPP Computing at the MWC in Barcelona and what they showed us and told us has the potential of changing how we use notebooks. The crazy thing is that it has taken them no less than six years to get to the point where they can openly talk about what they’ve developed and in many ways it’s so simple that we’re amazed that no-one else has thought about it already.
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IF YOU’VE EVER watched a piece of video, no matter the source or quality, on a handheld device, tablet or notebook, well heck, even on a desktop or TV in your home, you’ll have run into one problem that just about every LCD screen suffers from, poor contrast ratio. We bumped into a company at the MWC called Apical that might just be about to fix this problem for good, as they’ve worked out a very different way of improving the contrast ratio compared to current solutions.
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IMAGINTATION TECHNOLOGIES PURCHASE of Caustic Graphics was somewhat perplexing at first, but after a chat earlier today with David Harold, Imagination Technologies Director of PR, things have become a lot clearer.
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AS SOON AS a chipmaker announces a new chip, the OEMs and ODMs come out with new products to support that part. In this case, Tyan has a new board and barebones system for the refreshed Opteron 6100 chips.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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IF YOU’VE EVER built your own PC you might be familiar with the terms North Bridge and South Bridge, well, Cypress has a third entry which it calls a West Bridge which in a way is similar to Intel’s PCH, except that it’s mainly intended for ARM based solutions. The West Bridge sits between the processor and the USB interface and handles quite a bit of the processing that would otherwise have been done by the SoC and as such can help free up resources and improve battery life.
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TODAY AT THE Mobile World Congress, Marvell announced that it has followed Intel into the world of software, although this is a very different move than those of Intel in the past. Marvell has purchased a company called Kinoma Inc which has developed what is something we have quite hard to put a name to, but it’s sort of apps inside an app with a custom UI.
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AMD PUT OUT a speed bump for the Magny-Cours CPUs today, five new chips in all. They aren’t anything huge, just a slight speed increase for the top end Opteron 6100 line.
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EARLIER TONIGHT LOCAL time we wasted about two hours of our life listening to Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop explain in some detail, although by no means in any specific terms, as to why Nokia decided to go down the Windows Phone 7 route. Pretty much every journalist at the Mobile World Congress has turned up, as everyone expected Nokia to at least show off its first Windows Phone 7 handset, but alas, it was not to be.
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IF NOKIA’S CURRENT stock price is anything to go by, its move to sign up for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system doesn’t appear to have gone down well with its investors, as Nokia’s stock price has tanked almost 14 percent.
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RENESAS IS MOVING into a lot of market spaces and its mobile division has announced that it will be showing its new SH-Mobile APE5R ARM Cortex A9 SoC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The SH-Mobile APE5R is the first Cortex A9 SoC to use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX MP multi-core graphics core and it’ll be interesting to see how powerful it is.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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