Intel Clover trail chips made their made to the first generation Windows 8 tablets, and some Android ones as well. It faired well, but the manufactures asked for more powerful but similar power efficient CPUs, so Intel introduced Bay Trail that promises long battery life, low cost, 4K video playback capability and 2560×1600 pixel resolution support. These bay trail processors include Z3740, Z3770, Z3770D, Z3740D, Z3680 and Z3680D.
Intel has launched a slew of new SKUs that includes the new Atom Z37x5 line up promising better graphics performance by 16 percent and support for 4GB RAM in Z3745, Z3775 and Z3795 SoC. All new chips, Z3735D, Z3735E, Z3745, Z3745D, Z3775, Z3775D and Z3795 are built using 22nm process on silver Mont microarchitecture, and features four CPU cores, 2 megabytes of L2 cache, and Ivy Bridge graphics with four execution units.
Nvidia released the new 64 bit mobile processor, the Tegra K1, and now this SoC has made its appearance on AnTuTu benchmark database. The K1 was spotted on benchmark app, and looking at its score, it appears to be a very powerful CPU. There will be two variants of this CPU when it will be made available to the OEMs for use in tablets and smart phones, a dual core 64 bit and a 32 bit quad core variant.
Samsung at Mobile World Congress presented an update of its octa-core Exynos 5420, called the Exynos 5422, which can be operated with all eight cores and offers a higher clock rate and a new hexa-core, Exynos 5 Hexa 5260, with two and four core ARM Cortex A15 and A7 respectively.
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Intel announced its new Atom processor for smartphones and tablets. The new dual-core CPU Atom Z3460 and Z3480 (Merrifield) and quad-core Atom Z3560 and Z3580 (Moorefield) are all based on 22nm architecture Silvermont and equipped with the new generation GPU PowerVR Series 6 Rogue. The Atom processor so far have not been quite competitive in the consumption / performance ratio compared to ARM-based counterparts. The situation may change because Atom processors will soon arrive in the market with the 22nm Airmont architecture SoC, with the two Atom Z3460 and Z3480 Merrifield and the two Atom Z3560 and Z3580 Moorefield presented for the first time at Mobile World Congress.
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MediaTek’s Aster SoC is an all-in-one solution for smartwatch and other devices of wearable technology, in which a chip of just 5 mm size not only integrates the CPU and GPU but also the Bluetooth module, the power management chip, memory etc. MT6630 chip is a 5-in-1 that includes Wi-Fi dual-band, ANT +, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and FM Radio.
