Versal ACAP ideal for 5G
There is no doubt that Samsung is a big player in the 5G arena, both on the client and infrastructure side. Xilinx also managed to score an important 5G design win with its Xilinx Versal ACAP for worldwide 5G commercial deployments.
OnePlus 8 and Pro with 120Hz display uses Pixelworks
DisplayMate A+ Rating with fifth-gen Pixelworks SoC
We might be at the beggining of a new era right now. Smartphone OEMs clearly recognized the importance of the camera subsystem, but in the last two years, many OEMs started heavily investing in displays too. Being at the forefront of innovation and recognizing the upcoming trend, OnePlus decided to include a Pixelworks fifth-generation visual processor to its latest OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro phones.
Huawei working on an AI GPU
As Apple settled with Imagination
Huawei, for the most part, relies on ARM IP. It uses the ARM Cortex CPU and Mali GPU cores for its SoCs. The company has high AI aspirations with its Ascend series of chips. Now recent rumors point out that the Chinese giant is setting up a GPU research center in South Korea and focuses on AI and datacenter.
Pixelworks scores TCL 10, 5G and 10 L designs
HDR Tone Mapping, SDR-to-HDR and Picture Clarity Enhancements
TCL is continuously improving its phone portfolio, adding better specs and still keeping the phones at a very reasonable price. The display supremacy in making is amplified by a Pixelworks.
TCL 10 Pro, 10 5G and 10L announced
Focus on display and camera
TCL is a big name in TVs, and the company behind the Alcatel brand is making its way into the mobile phone arena too. They focus on the display performance, better camera setup, have a 5G phone, and use Pixelworks and its NXTVISION visual technology to improve and optimize content for its phone.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 865, 765 updatable drivers
For some Pixel and Galaxy 10 phones
Qualcomm announced in December 2019 that it would offer driver updates for its Adreno GPU. This unique approach was years in making. The first products of this fruitful work are here as the Google and Qualcomm have released the Android GPU Inspector.
Telefonica is Xilinx’s major 5G customer
First of many
5G is a transformational technology that will change the decade and enable new scenarios as well as business models. With that in mind, Xilinx has just announced that with a few other industry players, it is building a next-generation wireless radio network to drive 5G innovation using open radio-access network (O-RAN) standards for Telefonica.
Insane €799 and €999 pricing
It took Xiaomi more than a decade to make a camera that could challenge Apple, Huawei, and Samsung, and when it did, it doubled the price of its phone compared to last year. The Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 PRO can be preordered in Spain for the insane amounts of €799 and €999.
The Aida 64 6.25 is out
Speaks AVX-512 for Ice Lake server
Aida is one of the legendary tools / benchmarks that can answer the eternal question, which kind of a configuration can you have, without needing to open your computer or notebook?
Apple 5G phone is on schedule
iPhone 12 that is
Many outlets covered the rumor that Apple plans to delay its 5G iPhone because of COVID-19 and Foxconn production capacity issues but as we suspected, the rumors turn out to be premature.