News of the specs of the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has been all over the internet. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is Qualcomm’s latest flagship SoCs for Android based smartphones. Earlier I posted confirmed specs for the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 which on paper are very impressive. They soon followed up with what […]

Hi there, let’s look at thermal throttling and thermal runaway. These are terms that are thrown around quite frequently. Now, let’s start with the basics. Key terms Thermal is derived from the Greek word Thermos meaning heat. Throttling means to choke on something or on someone thereby restricting their movement and airflow. In other words, […]

In a market dominated by the sheer volume of both MediaTek and Qualcomm, it is always nice to see a new face. Enter the JLQ JR510. The JLQ JR510 is a new budget SoC from JLQ. I have written a whole post about them so do well to check it out. The JLQ JR510 is […]

It was only a few months ago that the news broke out on tech media that the new Xiaomi Poco C40 was using an SoC called JLQ JR510. My instant reaction was JL what? What is that? Who are they? Well, it turns out that there’s a new SoC company called JLQ and they’re here […]

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 naming scheme used on the 800 series flagships like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 […]

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 optimization? Without wasting time, optimization is the act of making something function better at its job. This is a very peculiar way to describe it […]

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 period of time, they dabbled into making their own custom cores. These were known as Exynos Mongoose custom cores or the Exynos M series. This […]

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 speaking, there are two types of CPU cores based on how they are built. These are IP CPU cores and Custom CPU cores. IP 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 and I shed light on them. This time, we’re going to look at a major part of the SoC. This is the part that we […]

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 for those in the know, Qualcomm has a 4 tiered system of SoCs. These are the: SD400 series (Entry level/budget) SD600 series (Lower midrange) SD700 […]