ARM

Samsung’s premium Exynos 2200 mobile processor

The Exynos 2200 series of chips was announced on January 18th and is planned for the Galaxy S22, Galaxy Z Fold3, and Flip3 phones. The Exynos 2200 SoC is based on Samsung’s 4-nm processing node. The chip’s GPU is named Xclipse 920 and uses AMD’s RDNA2 GPU IP including AMD’s intersection ray-tracing processors—making Exynos 2200 SoC the first mobile processor … Read more

Imagination back in the CPU business

Imagination is no newcomer to CPUs and designed a few for its audio and TV products and some other special-purpose products. Its big move, however, was In 2012 when Imagination announced it would acquire MIPS for $60 million. In 2017 Imagination sold MIPS for $65 million, so Imagination could be acquired by Canyon bridge. Imagination had been a partner with … Read more

Smoke, mirrors, DLSS on Arm—is that even possible?

Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia … Read more