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I take it the iPhone XS finally has enough ram for the SPEC benchmarks to directly compare with Android devices...

According to an analyst on CNBC, this affair happened a decade ago. There's little chance that it was anything but an excuse for the board to lay him off for overpaying for acquisitions, bungling tick-tock, and their recent 10nm woes. I would look for Hock Tan (not a fan of him but...) to ride...

I imagine the better memory subsystem and interconnects are the the S845's secret sauce. It's not clear that the Exynos has an L4 cache and the smaller cluster cores each lack L2 entirely. They have a very nice core in the M3, but that's about it; the rest of the design seems withered next to...

Here's the first direct comparison I've seen between the S845 and the E9810 on the S9+: https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-tested-exynos-9810-vs-snapdragon-845 Looks like a blowout in favor of the S845 with the sole exception of Geekbench. Looking forward to Neb's detailed review.

Later tweets say it's fixable by software and that "it's not cheating" so it may not be performance related per se. If it is, it could be they're throttling the S845 to match the Exynos... I still have a jaundiced view of the SoC level competency of Samsung's design.

Actual early results are lackluster and the SoC seems lopsided despite the impressive absolute performance of the big CPU core: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12478/exynos-9810-handson-awkward-first-results You get great Geekbench performance but on pretty much every other benchmark or any...

That may be true, but consumers are generally keeping their PCs for longer as there's less to be gained from an upgrade with each coming generation. It may be a long shot, but having Windows on ARM is potential challenge for those artificially fat margins gotten from restrictive x86 licensing.

They finally finished the plant they initially planned on ramping up half a decade ago. They're also pivoting more and more to the data center due to slowing general consumer sales: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11115/intel-confirms-8th-gen-core-on-14nm-data-center-first-to-new-nodes and...

I think Intel's model is starting to show holes in a more dynamic era of fabless companies like ARMH and QCOM who license designs and pure play fabs who are neck and neck with Intel when it comes to process. Most of their expansion like the one into mobile and IoT have have fizzled (and in fact...

I think performance looks great, but what's uncertain is the quality of the southbridge and its drivers. Hopefully the enthusiast launch won't be seen a debugging expedition for the enterprise launch.

First solid info: http://techreport.com/review/30540/amd-gives-us-our-first-real-moment-of-zen

Intel is doing a pivot in its strategy to better fill existing fab space: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/intel-licenses-arm-technology-in-move-to-boost-foundry-business I don't think they announced that they were going to market their own ARM SoCs but this opens the door to...

For that picture of the GPU, it's likely that the plastic shroud region uses a single material shader program and its operands; it looks like there's some patterns that region, for example there are pure black tiles which presumably contains just one SMID and this tile appears in a semi regular...

The last picture on this page: https://developer.nvidia.com/content/life-triangle-nvidias-logical-pipeline seems to indicate some sort of tiled boundaries for the allocation of SM and warps in graphics rendering for Kepler and Maxwell and there are tiles with multiple SMs and warps. I know the...

I hope AMD pulls forward Vega as rumored and fuels a war at the upper echelons of performance parts. Presumably NVidia has room to breathe as it probably already has a working Titan version of this thing waiting in the wings based on a ~600mm^2 die based off the GP100 w/ HBM2. They'll also...