Xilinx works with TI to develop energy efficient 5G radio
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Texas Instruments uses Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC


Xilinx announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop scalable and adaptable digital front-end (DFE) solutions to increase energy efficiency of lower antenna count radios. The solution leverages Xilinx's IP to enhance the RF performance and improve the power efficiency of indoor and outdoor radio applications.

Xiaomi Redmi TV Bar Speaker 30W reviewed
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Friday, 13 November 2020 09:44

Xiaomi Redmi TV Bar Speaker 30W reviewed


Review: Sub 50 Euro soundbar for the win

Redmi by Xiaomi is more known for phones, but in the meantime, the company also makes TV and soundbars, among other things, offering them at a favorable price in quite good quality.

Xilinx and Samsung announce Adaptable Computational Storage Drives
Published in Cloud


Industry's First

What the smart NIC did for the networking industry might be what SmartSSD powered by Xilinx FPGA might do for the storage industry. The company just announced its fully customizable and scalable SmartSSD computational storage platform. The general idea behind it moves to compute closer to storage for accelerated data processing speed and efficiency.

Apple M1 SoC performance claims don't add up
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:51

Apple M1 SoC performance claims don't add up


PowerPoint slides, no data

Watching Apple's MacBook silicon, M1 presentation left me astonished by the amount of information not based on facts. Without any thread of evidence, Apple's Johny Srouji, Senior Vice President, Hardware Technologies, was throwing claims that it has the fastest CPU core, fastest GPU core, best performance per watt, and throwing 2X or 3X in the equation.

Xilinx introduces breakthrough Zynq RFSoC DFE
Published in Network
Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:57

Xilinx introduces breakthrough Zynq RFSoC DFE


For Mass 5G Radio Deployments

Xilinx is a rather big player in 5G infrastructure with its very attractive Zynq RFSoC, and today the company announced a new Zynq RFSoC DFE to help accomplish the evolving standard of 5G NR.

AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx
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Wednesday, 28 October 2020 11:58

AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx


$35 billion biggest to date

News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.

DXOMARK now scores displays
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:56

DXOMARK now scores displays


Game changing 400+ objective measurements

After great success with the scientific approach and standardization in camera testing, DXOMARK has decided to start testing mobile phone displays. There was a big debate for years how to accurately do that, and so far, no media house managed to stand out as the task is time and budget intensive.

AMD will most likely buy Xilinx
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Friday, 16 October 2020 10:45

AMD will most likely buy Xilinx


Data center strategy

It is impossible to get a comment from either AMD or Xilinx on this matter, but as far as we could ask around, AMD is going to attempt to buy Xilinx. The move will help the company’s data center strategy, and it is carefully targeted.

Windows licenses cost only €12 in CDKoffers!
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Sponsored: Global marketplace for all types of keys

Windows licenses are usually expensive. For example, for an original license of Microsoft's "Windows 10 Pro" in the official Microsoft store 199.99€ payable. A cheaper alternative is the key marketplace CDKoffers.com . Here you can save on licenses for software or games properly!

Redmi 9C review is a value Everest
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Thursday, 08 October 2020 11:14

Redmi 9C review is a value Everest


Review: With promotion code 94.7 $ 6.53-inch great phone

Xiaomi has run with its Redmi series for many years, and these phones usually are designed not to break the bank but still offer decent performance and quality. Redmi 9C is a 110 Euro/USD phone with a 5000 mAh battery, 6.53-inch screen, and MediaTek Helio G35 that offers decent performance for the entry-level.