Category Archives: CPUs

ISSCC 2013 – Monster chips from IBM, Oracle and AMD

Posted on March 7, 2013 by rwilliamson

contributed by Randy Torrance Hot on the heels of a “cores, cores everywhere cores” blog created at the Mobile World Congress, we have an alternative view of the world coming from the International Solid State Circuits Conference.  And it isn’t … 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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ISSCC 2013 Heterogeneous Systems Architecture

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Chipworks

Contributed by Randy Torrance For years, ISSCC has been known as the conference that is just about the facts. Papers were only accepted if silicon was available (the requisite die photo as your last slide). No marketing was allowed, and … Continue reading →

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Looking at the Wii U Graphics Processor

Posted on February 4, 2013 by rwilliamson

Yes, even reverse engineering the latest technology has its up and down days. At the start of the reverse engineering process, we generally have a simple electronics teardown before we can get to the more traditional tasks of helping our … Continue reading →

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