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Texas Instruments is dropping from the system-on-chip for smartphones and tablets manufacturing and will give up on its OMAP lineup.
The company’s OMAP boards are less and less popular among mobile manufacturers – most of them bet on Qualcomm, while Samsung and Apple are developing their own solutions (Exynos, A6). The major disadvantage of the OMAP chipset is the lack of on-board 3G/4G modem.
That forces manufacturers who rely on OMAP chipsets to use additional radio chips, which increases battery consumption and production costs. Now you understand why smartphone manufacturers prefer Qualcomm’s complete solutions, rather than this expensive process.
TI says its focus will shift on “to a broader market including industrial clients like carmakers”, though it did not announce specifics and the investors were left wondering.
Anyway, TI will continue to support its current clients, but will significantly reduce efforts on developing new OMAP chipsets.
The news might come shocking for some, as the TI OMAP 5 was expected to be the first chipset with dual Cortex-A15 CPU, and now it's fate is uncertain.
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very interesting
i wonder if Exynos will remain as the top benchmark after the official release of Medfield
Tegra is a joke, they never release sources
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Qualcommn looks interesting in the battle with their new S4 too bad no devices are out yet featuring that SOC chipset
Intel is know to be very Open source friendly, so it'll be interesting to see how they integrate into the Android society
the bigger question though is, are existing Games & Apps going to run with a x86 based SOC?
Awesome! This is why I love Android. More competition = more choices and better performance.
yeah, i love android because of it
Ahhh this is gonna be good
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There has been a lot of talk about what cpu the upcoming nexus 6 will have. After seeing the snapdragon 810 flop, there had been a lot of speculation that it might sport one of the upcoming processors like huawei's kirin 950, snapdragon 920, or even mediatek's helios x20. However I'm sure everyone has seen these leaks (maybe not) which are believed to be benchmarks teasing the upcoming nexus 6's performance:
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However if you look at the processor ID you will see that it says "ARM implementer 65 architecture 8 variant 1 part 3335 revision 1". If you do a quick google of this you will find that this is the processor ID for the HTC One M9 which sports a msm8994 motherboard, meaning snapdragon 810. This leads me to believe that the nexus 6 will sport a snapdragon 810.
Hopefully the nexus 6 will not be plagued with the issues that the Oneplus 2 and other snapdragon 810 phones encountered. Knowing how great the community devolopment is for nexus phones, I can see roms/kernels which take full advantage of the hardware being developed in the future.
It has been nearly a month since the release of the Mi Note 10 - a brand new flagship from Xiaomi. Xiaomi has been famous as a manufacturer of high-end devices with much more reasonable prices compared with many other brands.
However, the latest Mi Note 10, as officially announced, is only factory-released with the Snapdragon 730G - a high-end class chipset from Qualcomm. 730G is not a bad pick obviously; its performance is confirmed to be quite outstanding, especially in terms of battery-saving and game optimization. However, before the release of Mi Note 10, I (and maybe many people) expected this device to be featured with flagship-class chipsets such as the Snapdragon 855 or even 855+, since Xiaomi often tends to prioritize the overall performance of the phone by equipping the best chipset, even sometimes out of the price range.
What do you think are the reason for this decision from Xiaomi? Thanks for your attention and comments.
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Not sure how realistic these announcements are vs "marketing power-point based products", but it seems UNISOC has been announcing at Barcelona MWC more focus on Auto Chipsets. In particular from their Twitter account:
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Also, one outlet covering diverse Chinese MWC announcements in a note published:
"UNISOC will focus on displaying the first 5G smart cockpit chip platform A7870. It will also display a 4G car chip solution A7862, and an eight-core 4G car tech chip solution A8581. These products are currently entering the leading car group. In 2023 and in the future, UNISOC will further increase investment in automotive electronics."
The 7862 we know for years (and the 8581 is even less powerful) and that is why most probably they were branded in a more "legacy way" (4G)... but the fact that they (it seems) decided to dedicate some real-state of the stand to Auto solutions seems promising
Yes, I know, it might be ages until FYT or somebody else actually embeds this in a product... but the FYT-7862 has been around for 2.5 years already...
Has anybody heard anything on this?