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Samsung is announcing today that it has begun mass production of 12 GB and 16 GB LPDDR5X modules in the industry's thinnest package. Samsung's shrunken memory packages measure approximately 0.65 mm in thickness, making them 0.06 mm (~9%) thinner than standard LPDDR5X packages. The company expects the new DRAM devices to be used to make for thinner smartphones, or improve their performance by enabling better airflow inside. According to the company's press release, Samsung achieved this ultra-thin design by employing new packaging methods, such as optimized printed circuit boards (PCBs) and epoxy molding compound (EMC). Additionally, an optimized back-lapping process was used to further reduce the height of the packages. The newly developed DRAM packages are not only thinner by 9% compared to previous models...
A Visual Guide to the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile
This is normally Brian's beat but with him busy putting the finishing touches on his review of HTC's One, I thought I'd help out. We're still seeing (and hearing...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2013
Apple to Ship Updated A1428 iPhone 5 With AWS WCDMA Enabled for T-Mobile USA
Back when I did my Qualcomm modems and transceivers piece, I gained a deeper understanding about the cellular RF engineering side of the handset puzzle. Specifically, how an OEM...
31 by Brian Klug on 3/26/2013
The HTC One: A Remarkable Device, Anand’s mini Review
For the past week and a half our own Brian Klug has been hard at work on his review of HTC’s new flagship smartphone, the One. These things take...
437 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/21/2013
More Details On NVIDIA’s Kayla: A Dev Platform for CUDA on ARM
In this morning’s GTC 2013 keynote, one of the items briefly mentioned by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was Kayla, an NVIDIA project combining a Tegra 3 processor and an...
17 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
NVIDIA Updates Tegra Roadmap Details at GTC - Logan and Parker Detailed
We're at NVIDIA's GTC 2013 event where team green just updated their official roadmap and shared some more details about their Tegra portfolio, specifically additional information about Logan and...
25 by Brian Klug & Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
Samsung's Galaxy S 4: Introduction & Hands On
Since 2010 Samsung has grown to become not only the clear leader in the Android smartphone space, but the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Its annual iteration of...
209 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Samsung's Unpacked 2013 Launch Event Live Blog
We're live from Samsung's Unpacked event in NYC where the company is about to announce their next-generation flagship smartphone. Keep it parked here for live updates!
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Imagination Technologies Confirms PowerVR SGX 544 IP used in Exynos 5 Octa
ARM was being unusually coy when talking about the GPU IP used in Samsung's recently announced Exynos 5 Octa. We eventually found out why: unlike the Exynos 5 Dual...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013OpenCL drivers discovered on Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices
As regular Anandtech readers will know, OpenCL is a standard by Khronos group that allows you to access the computational power of parallel devices such as multicore CPUs and...
19 by Rahul Garg on 2/27/2013
A Look at Broadcom's BCM21892 LTE Baseband at MWC
Yesterday we stopped by Broadcom to look at their newly announced BCM21892 LTE baseband, which we saw teased previously at CES doing a VoLTE call. If you're not famliar...
8 by Brian Klug on 2/27/2013
A Look at ST-Ericsson's THOR M7450 Category 4 LTE Modem with Carrier Aggregation
Earlier this morning we stopped by ST-Ericsson to talk about their SoCs and modem platforms, and took a look at their new Thor M7450 baseband which includes both support...
15 by Brian Klug on 2/26/2013
Live from Nokia's MWC 2013 Press Conference
We just took our seats at the Nokia MWC 2013 press conference here in the new MWC venue in Barcelona. We're not sure what to expect from Noka today...
19 by Brian Klug on 2/26/2013
Hands on with the ASUS Fonepad, and ASUS PadFone Infinity
In its annual tradition at MWC, ASUS held a press conference off-site to introduce some of its mobile devices. The introductions are always interesting and typically unique in the...
70 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
Hands On With Nokia's New Phones - Lumia 520, Lumia 720, Nokia 105 and Nokia 301
Right after the Nokia press conference I spent time playing around with all of the newly announced Nokia phones, and there are four. Nokia's announcement primarily focused on the...
13 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
LG Optimus G Pro Hands On & Performance Preview, Snapdragon 600 Tested at MWC 2013
We began our day at Mobile World Congress with a visit to LG's booth, where it offered hands on with its 1H 2013 lineup of smartphones. Among them is...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2013_carousel.jpg)
Samsung Announces SAFE with KNOX - Security Container for Enterprise BYOD
I talked with Anand about his impressions of the Note 8 after reading his hands on piece, and one thing that struck me was a mention of how Samsung...
3 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
Audience Announces eS325 Advanced Voice Processor - es515 Sans Codec
Earlier this year Audience announced the eS515, a combination new-generation voice processor and audio codec. The eS515 brought three-microphone noise suppression along with improved noise suppression for reverb, more...
2 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
NVIDIA Tegra 4 Architecture Deep Dive, Plus Tegra 4i, Icera i500 & Phoenix Hands On
Ever since NVIDIA arrived on the SoC scene, it has done a great job of introducing its ultra mobile SoCs. Tegra 2 and 3 were both introduced with a...
75 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 2/24/2013
Huawei Ascend P2 LTE: Hands On
We just stopped by Huawei's press event here in Barcelona just before Mobile World Congress 2013 kicks off, and Huawei had an interesting surprise lined up. Huawei put the...
9 by Brian Klug on 2/24/2013
How the HTC One's Camera Bucks the Trend in Smartphone Imaging
Now that we’ve seen the HTC One camera announcement, I think it’s worth going over why this is something very exciting from an imaging standpoint, and also a huge...
23 by Brian Klug on 2/22/2013
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