HiSilicon Kirin 930 SoC points to a new trend
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Huawei’s first 16nm part has potential

Huawei launched the oversized MediaPad X2 at the Mobile World Congress, and while we’re not sold on the idea of tablet phones, we are impressed by what’s under the bonnet. 

MediaTek's new SoC brand is Helio
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MT6795 is now Helio X10

Starting last week, following a strong showing at the Mobile World Congress, MediaTek has a new brand name for its premium phone SoCs that is easier to remember than MT, followed by four digits. 

The fact that Samsung 14nm SoC works surprised the industry
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No one expected such good yields

We found out one rather interesting story at the Mobile World Congress and it sheds more light on Samsung's decision to use Exynos SoCs for most markets instead of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810. 

Intel shows off NUCs and other stuff
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Broadwell based

Intel has been sharing a few details about its new socketed, unlocked, 65W desktop processor based on Intel’s Broadwell architecture--featuring Iris graphic.

World’s first Cortex-A72 SoC spotted at MWC 15
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MediaTek MT8173 runs prototype tablet 

We had a chance to see the world’s first Cortex-A72 CPU core in the quad-core MediaTek 8173 SoC.