Mobile overdrive.

For a long time I had been curious to understand how easy it was for mobile processors to achieve the peak frequencies advertised by semiconductor vendors.

Inside the machine.

Consumer electronics companies have recently taken an interest in machine learning in a consolidated effort to provide new and compelling user experiences for mobile devices.

Does not GPU compute.

The semiconductor industry has seen its fair share of debates. The latest one revolves around the internal architecture of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for machine learning; it even sparked accusations of click bait on social media and generated plenty of speculation among analysts.

The future of silicon.

Two months ago, I wrote about the wave of consolidation that has taken the semiconductor industry by storm, causing a significant change in the way silicon chips for consumer electronics are manufactured.

Semiconductors buyers club.

This year we’ve seen unprecedented consolidation in the technology market. The story that perhaps best defined 2015 was Dell acquiring EMC for a whopping $67 billion, making it one of the biggest buys in the history of corporate trading.

Back to the Future Part IV

October 21st, 2015 marks the fictitious date when Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker climbed into the DeLorean time machine and traveled back to the future to help their kids.

Great MIPS chips of the past 30 years

Some 30 years ago, a fresh-faced team of Silicon Valley engineers from Stanford University, Motorola, IBM and other semiconductor companies introduced the computing world to MIPS, a new CPU architecture built around an innovative concept: improve system performance by quickly executing simple instructions.

Ray tracing made easy.

For the past three decades, there have been two main schools of thought dominating the center stage of 3D graphics: rasterization and ray tracing.

Benchmarking benchmarks.

I sometimes find certain mobile benchmarks confusing.

Not all graphics are created equal.

Last week the guys from GameBench published a collection of screenshots taken from several mobile games running on three premium smartphones – and the results are quite interesting.