Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 – A new midrange era begins
Qualcomm has announced a new refresh to its Snapdragon 700 series and the name of the new SoC is Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. This naming scheme draws from the new…
Apple Silicon custom cores
Apple's Silicon custom cores are a group of custom CPUs made by Apple. A custom CPU is usually a CPU that is made using in-house company designs as opposed to…
SoC Optimization
So what I want to look at is a teeny tiny thing called SoC optimization. Yes, SoC optimization. It's something that a lot of people tend to overlook. What is…
Exynos Mongoose Custom Cores
Samsung have been making SoCs for a long time now. 12 years to be exact. For most of that time, they have used ARM's IP cores, but for a brief…
What are Qualcomm’s Kryo CPU cores?
Every phone has an SoC. At the center of these SoCs are CPU cores. Today we are going to be tackling the question, what are Qualcomm's Kryo CPU cores? Generally…
Introduction to Smartphone SoCs 2 (CPU cores)
Hi, welcome to the second part of our series, Introduction to Smartphone SoCs 2 (CPU cores). So in our last talk, I listed all the major parts of an SoC…
Snapdragon 695 5G – A curious case
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 695 5G late last year and it has mostly flown under the radar. At least till now. The Snapdragon 695 5G is a midrange SoC. Now…
Introduction to Smartphone SoCs
In the following series of posts, we're going to be doing an Introduction to Smartphone SoCs series. This introduction to Smartphone SoCs series is designed to familiarize users with smartphone…
Top 100 Smartphone GPUs in the world
Hi, I'm sure that you clicked the link because you were probably searching for the top 100 smartphone GPUs in the world. Well, you're in the right place. Come on…
What is a Benchmark?
If you have been around tech people in general or smartphone people in particular, the term "benchmark" is something that you must have heard by now. Benchmarks have caused a…