Top 100 Smartphone SOCs in the World 2023
Welcome to today’s post. The title says that this post is going to be looking at the top 100 Smartphone SoCs in the world. In reality though, I have made…
What is RISC-V?
A while back, the internet suddenly went agog with news of RISC-V. If you don’t know what that is, you’re in the right place. So let’s tackle this question, what…
ARM have announced new CPUs and GPUs (Cortex X3, A715, immortalis)
ARM have announced new CPUs and GPUs. These new CPUs and GPUs are an update to the existing ARMv9 lineup. ARM holdings are a semiconductor company that makes CPU designs…
What are System Resources?
What are system resources? In very simple terms, a system resource is any component of the phone/computer that is needed to carry out tasks. These components may include both hardware…
Why RAM Clockspeed and core counts are useless gaming specs
In today’s article, we’re going to look at why RAM Clockspeed and core counts are useless gaming specs. Konami put out RAM size, Clockspeed and core counts as requirements for…
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 is 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 overlook. What is optimization? Without…
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…