#semiconductor_design

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The company believes that testing needs to be done differently MediaTek decided to respond to the hype surrounding the incredible throttling of the SoC Dimensity 9300 . It turned out that incorrect tests were to blame. [caption id="attachment_85084" align="alignnone" width="600"] MediaTek[/caption] It is well known that all modern smartphones are equipped with thermal management to ensure that the temperature of the device is maintained within an acceptable/safe range. MediaTek reacts to criticism of the incredible throttling of the SoC Dimensity 9300 The best way to use a CPU throttling test to compare devices is to run the test with the devices at the same temperature. Thanks to its larger CPU cores, the Dimensity 9300 will achieve a much higher maximum and average score than the competition if testing is done correctly. Thus, Dimensity 9300 will be able to provide greater computing performance throughout the test. It is not very clear how testing with the same temperature of smartphone cases should be carried out in practice and what relation this has to real use scenarios, however, so far there are only Vivo flagships on the market with the Dimensity 9300, so we need to wait for other smartphones to fully evaluate the behavior new MediaTek platform.

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Amkor is currently building a plant near the TSMC plant In the near future, some Apple platforms will be completely manufactured in the USA. The company said it will be the first and largest customer of the new Amkor plant being built in Peoria, Arizona. This factory will package Apple chips produced at the TSMC plant. The Cupertino giant has been cooperating with Amkor for more than ten years, but now that it will have a factory in the USA (and TSMC already has one there), Apple will be able to produce its single-chip systems entirely in its home country. In the US, Apple chips will be produced by TSMC and packaged by Amkor [caption id="attachment_85065" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Apple chips[/caption] It is not specified which platforms Amkor will package, but in general Apple does not have a particularly large line of SoCs that are relevant at any particular point in time and are used in certain products.

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There are few details yet It looks like the new generation of smartwatches with Wear OS will become much more autonomous. Qualcomm announced that it is jointly developing the Snapdragon Wear platform based on the RISC-V architecture with Google. [caption id="attachment_71231" align="aligncenter" width="600"] RISC-V[/caption] Qualcomm is moving from Arm to RISC-V. The press release says that the new platform will be aimed generally at devices in the wearable electronics segment with Wear OS, but for now, this is only smartwatches. Perhaps with the release of such a platform the range of devices will expand. Qualcomm says the development will help pave the way for more products in the ecosystem that can take advantage of dedicated processors with low power consumption and high performance. It is not yet clear when the first such SoC will appear, but Qualcomm promises to talk about it later.