Apple has quite the bill to pay as this week, a judge has ordered the company to pay out $506 million to the University of Wisconsin over a patent infringement claim. The University's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) believed Apple's A7, A8 and A8x chips all infringed on patents. The …
Read More »ARM Cortex-A57 and Intel Silvermont – most efficient mobile cores, says study
At present there are about half of a dozen different general-purpose processing cores for various low-power system-on-chip solutions. There are high-performance, low-power, big and small cores. But when all of these metrics are taken into account, ARM and Intel have the edge over their rivals. Massive popularization of mobile and …
Read More »Apple makes 64-bit support mandatory for iOS apps
Although Apple has offered smartphones and tablets with 64-bit application processors for well over a year now, many programs remained 32-bit and could not take advantage of the new system-on-chips. This is going to change in the coming months, as Apple wants all software developers to include 64-bit support in …
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