Category Archives: App’s processors

Apple’s TV surprise – a new A5 chip!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Chipworks

This Technology Blog will be live updated to include some cross sectional and polysilicon shots of the Apple A5. If you are seeing this message then check back regularly or follow us on Twitter @chipworks to get up to the … Continue reading →

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MWC 2013 – Cores, Cores, Everywhere Cores

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Chipworks

Contributed by Rob Williamson A comparative look at a few of today’s flagship application processors Walking around Mobile World Congress, you can’t help but notice that the leading smartphone vendors are down-playing their specifications these days. In the early days … Continue reading →

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Smart TVs at CES 2013: operating systems and processors

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Chipworks

contributed by Jim Morrison, Product Manager Last year at CES 2012, we studied the Smart TVs that had been announced on the show floor to make a shopping list of all of the sets we wanted to further analyze back … Continue reading →

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ISSCC – Intel's Ivy Bridge, Rosepoint, Near-Threshold Techniques

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Chipworks

Contributed by Vincent Karam. Kicking off the afternoon of day 1 was the Ivy Bridge paper (3.1); the processor contains 1.4 Billion Transistors in an area of 160 mm2 (for their 4 core 2 graphic segment die). The IVB dies … Continue reading →

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