Mmmm... Raytracing, on mobiles first!Take a look at Rogue Planet demo presented at CES. Link below. It demonstrates tesslation on and runs on iPhone 6!?! Is it really a live demo?
http://hexus.net/tv/show/2015/01/Imagination_Technologies_explains_merits_of_mobile_PowerVR_GPUs
Where did you get that from. Their modems are TSMC made.Another oddity is pretending XMM 7360 will be Intel 28nm. Intel never had a 28nm process as far as I know.
I know but the table in the article is a complete mess: it mixes foundries and design houses in the "Order allocation" columns. So if you read it quickly you'd conclude Qualcomm will fab 70% of the baseband in 2016 and Intel 30%.Where did you get that from. Their modems are TSMC made.
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/14/apple-diversifies-arm-chips-macs/
Interesting rumours from Ming-Chi Kuo, who apparently is fairly accurate with these things, on Apple's chip production plans.
From now on TSMC and Samsung/Globalfoundries will split production with one producing the base A9/A10 and the other producing the larger A9X/A10X variant. Are CPU/GPU designs readily portable across foundries or will this mean the Ax and AxX variants become more distinct as each are optimized for their individual production process? He's also rumouring that the AxX will find it's way into Macs.
Reportedly even though it's launching in 2015, the S1 in the Apple Watch is made on Samsung 28 nm and not TSMC 20 nm. The S2 in 2016 will use TSMC 20 nm so it looks like Apple S series SoC will always be one process generation behind the A series. Still no word on what is actually inside the SoC, whether it's reusing previous A series CPU/GPU designs or whether it's actually completely custom.
Make sense in what way? They are both marketing terms remember..both are essentially just 20nm with FINFET.I'm obviously looking at just the process numbers, but does it make sense to move from 14 FF to 16 FF+ for the iPhones? Also I'm surprised that 10 FF is scheduled for so early.
Take a look at Rogue Planet demo presented at CES. Link below. It demonstrates tesslation on and runs on iPhone 6!?! Is it really a live demo?
http://hexus.net/tv/show/2015/01/Imagination_Technologies_explains_merits_of_mobile_PowerVR_GPUs
I was wondering if the Samsung 14 nm process having a lower number than the TSMC 16 nm FF+ process meant that it was better in some way.Make sense in what way? They are both marketing terms remember..both are essentially just 20nm with FINFET.