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.

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.

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.

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.

LG G2: one year later.

I bought my LG G2 smartphone in April 2014 because I had lost my previous phone (a Motorola RAZR i) on a trip abroad. After reading some online reviews, I decided that it was the best phone I could buy at the time for £300. The G2 had all the right features I was looking […]

The IP licensing business model. A love story.

Some months ago my colleague Rys Sommefeldt wrote an article offering his (deeply) technical perspective on how a chip gets made, from R&D to manufacturing. While his bildungsroman production covers a lot of the engineering details behind silicon production, it is light on the business side of things; and that is a good thing because […]

Bytesize 0x15 (2015).

A recap of the exciting technology news that made me click n’ read this week.

All your cores are belong to us.

First we saw the gold rush of octa-core; now we’re hearing reports of deca-core and perhaps even dodeca-core processors. So. Many. Cores. How did we get here?