SOC

Qualcomm has announced its latest chip, the Snapdragon X16, which boasts Category 16 LTE download speeds of up to 1 gigabit.

Qualcomm has introduced their Snapdragon 210 chipset for mid-range devices, offering solid specs at an affordable price.

Taiwanese semi MediaTek has officially announced the world's first octa-core 64-bit SoC.

For at least the last three years, LG has been working on its own ARM-based system-on-a-chip (SoC), and it appears that the chip may finally be headed to market.

Intel has shown off some interesting new chips this week, including a 64-bit Android kernel and a new SoC aimed at Chromebooks and other low-end PCs.

AMD has made it clear it has no plans to enter the smartphone and tablet SoC market.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a way to improve CPU performance more than 20 percent using a GPU built on the same processor die.
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