Mediatek MT6592 8 core processors coming by the end of July!

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/07/02/mediate...he-end-of-june/



Reports out of Taiwan state that Mediatek will launch the MT6592 8-core processor by the end of July.

There was word that Mediatek were working on an 8 core chipset late last year, but like many we believed it had been placed on the back burner while they prepared their LTE chip. This seems to be wrong though as sources in Taiwan claim that Mediatek’s 8-core processor will arrive before the end of this month!
The MT6592 chip will be made up of 8 Cortex-A7, 28nm processor clocked at a frequency of up to 2Ghz! Early tests have the 8 core MT6592 scoring up to 30,000 points in Antutu which is more than Samsung’s 8 core Exynos 5410 processor.
The first batch of these new processors will be ready for manufacturers to begin development by the end of July, while Mediatek are preparing full-scale manufacture for November!
If everything goes to plan we can expect powerful 8 core phones from Tier 1 Chinese phone manufacturers by December!

Beside new processor, new storage solution embedded SATA nanoSSD replace eMMC

Innodisk outs embedded SATA nanoSSD, nets 480MB per second from one chip


http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/22/innodis...d-sata-nanossd/

While single-chip SSDs are clearly known quantities, they usually run at a much more leisurely pace than their larger counterparts. Innodisk doesn't think size and speed have to be contradictory -- it just unveiled an embedded version of its nanoSSD that performs almost as well as its much bigger counterparts. The µSSD-based SATA chip has a tiny footprint (0.63 x 0.79 inches) and draws just 1W of peak power, but can still read at up to 480MB/s and write at 175MB/s. As such, it's one of the few SSDs that can theoretically stuff desktop-class storage into a smartphone or tablet. Whether or not it will is another matter. Innodisk hasn't named customers for the nanoSSD so far, which leaves us guessing just where or when we'll see the drive in a finished product.

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Innodisk Releases World's First Industrial-Embedded SATA µSSD – nanoSSD

Connector-free, high capacity microSSD for next-generation ultra-thin devices
May 22, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan – Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of SSDs for commercial and industrial applications, announces a release of the industrial-embedded industry's first SATA device in accordance to SATA µSSD standards – nanoSSD.

Through the integration of a control chip, flash memory and peripheral power components into a single ball grid array (BGA) package, Innodisk has managed to reduce the size of the nanoSSD to approximately 1% the size of a 2.5" SSD. With dimensions of only 16 x 20 x 2 mm (WxLxH), a weight of only 1.5g, SATA III support, capacities ranging from 4 to 64 GB and both x86 and ARM compatibility, nanoSSD can be incorporated into a wide variety of applications where a small form-factor and high transfer rates are important, including industrial mobile devices, embedded systems, tablets, high-end smart phones and Ultrabooks.

Innodisk's nanoSSD not only offers the advantage of an incredibly small form factor, as a result of the integration of DRAM into a BGA, this product also features high read/write speeds of 480/175 MB/s, respectively. Whether for purposes of system booting, data storage, or data cache backup, nanoSSD can significantly improve overall system performance.

According to TrendForce predictions for 2013, demand for embedded memory technologies eMMC and SSD will heat up, with a forecast of overall NAND Flash demand growth to reach up to 47.6% with eMMC and SSD contributing to 15% of the NAND flash output growth. Embedded memory technology designed for smart phones, eMMC, has been one of the main choices of ultra-thin hand-held devices, however, being subject to performance limitations, they are usually only implemented in low-end models. For high-end applications such as high performance ultra-thin Ultrabooks, the SATA interface remains the optimal choice.

Designed according to MO-276 standards, the JEDEC standard for SATA microSSDs, nanoSSD is a single-chip SATA implementation which allows for easy design-in. With many applications in the industrial-embedded field, Innodisk's nanoSSD can be applied in embedded storage devices of various sizes, in particular, SATADOM, Innodisk's own world's smallest form factor disk on module series. With Innodisk's expertise in creating mini form factor modules, an even smaller DOM can be created.

This product is fully compliant with the industrial-embedded industry's standards, including: thermal sensor implementation, -40˚C to 85˚C wide operation range, shock-resistance and ATA security and military (MIL-STD-810F/G) compliant quick erase standards.

Innodisk further adds value through firmware optimization designed by in-house R&D, extending the life of its flash products through wear-leveling technology. Also, significantly reducing the risk of industrial applications is Innodisk's own disk monitoring tool – iSMART, which allows users to visualize SSD wear-leveling status at a glance with a clear graphical display, giving users time to replace damaged disks before they fail.

8-core A15 Allwinner A80 Octa could be a Snadpragon 800 slayer!

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/11/22/8-core-...gon-800-slayer/



Chinese tech doesn’t rest with details of a new 8-core processor revealed from Chinese chip maker Allwinner.
The big news this week was the launch of the 8-core MT6592 processor from Taiwanese company Mediatek, but they aren’t the only ones to open up the octa-core market as Chinese brand Allwinner also released details of it’s chip.
Where as the Mediatek processor runs 8 x A7 Cortex cores the Allwinner A80 Octa will boast 8 x A15 cores plus a either a Mail-T6XX or Mali-T7XX GPU! Benchmarks haven’t been released but there is talk of this chipset actually outperforming Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 SoC! The Allwinnner A80 is currently slated as a tablet specific chipset, but this could change if more domestic brands take interest in the tech.

Next generation Huawei Hisilicon H3V3 SoC supports 4G LTE

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/12/21/next-ge...upports-4g-lte/



Huawei have been making some very significant waves in the Chinese phone market recently and the swell continues as the company has announced it’s Hisilicon H3V3 processor packs 4G LTE support.

This past few months has seen Huawei launch the stunning Ascend P6, and Xiaomi rivalling Honor 3C and 3X, for their next trick Huawei are going 4G LTE on us!

Huawei have been developing their own processors for some time. The current chip manufactured under the Hisilicon brand is a quad-core K3V2 chipset however a successor is just a few weeks away.

According to reports the Huawei Hisilicon K3V3 will launch early in 2014 and will feature all the latest flagship features rival chip makers are offering. This means the SoC will be an 8-core chipset with 4G LTE (Cat 6) support!

In addition Huawei are also working on developing a successor to 4G LTE too. Huawei plan to invest more than $600 million developing 5G data connections but we won’t be seeing them until 2020.

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http://www.anandtech.com/show/7573/qualcom...-adreno-306-gpu

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