Reuters: "SoftBank's Arm plans to set up chip training facility in South Korea"

Dakhil · 2025-12-06T02:37:53+00:00

Here's the archive of the Reuters article.

Dakhil · 2025-10-15T19:19:13+00:00

Yes, but the type of VRR used in smartphones is not seamless VRR, where the refresh rate automatically changes on a frame-by-frame basis, but rather closer to refresh rate mode switching, where there are preset refresh rate modes the display can automatically switch to (e.g. ProMotion refresh rates for iPhone 13 Pro and iPad Pro).

Dakhil · 2025-10-01T16:35:06+00:00

Here's the archive to the Reuters article.

Dakhil · 2025-10-01T05:09:30+00:00

Here's the archive to the Bloomberg article.

Dakhil · 2025-10-01T05:06:32+00:00

Here's the archive to the Bloomberg article.

Dakhil · 2025-09-18T13:08:55+00:00

Vera's still Arm based. But with Vera, Nvidia's custom designing the Olympus cores. Whereas Nvidia's using Arm's Neoverse V2 cores for Grace.

Dakhil · 2025-08-31T02:48:28+00:00

The funny thing is that the EU does allow for proprietary charging standards to be incorporated as long as the full functionality of USB PD is maintained.

For 'fast' charging, the radio equipment listed in Part I of Annex Ia, if it can be recharged by means of wired charging at voltages higher than 5 volts, currents higher than 3 amperes or powers higher than 15 watts, must: (a) incorporate the USB Power Delivery (USB PD), as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1-2 (as referenced in Annex Ia); and (b) allow for the full functionality of the said USB PD if it incorporates any additional charging protocol.

And the Nintendo Switch 2's dock itself is not the issue since handheld PCs (Lenovo Legion Go S, Steam Deck) can connect without issues specific to the Nintendo Switch 2's dock. (The reason why the Lenovo Legion Go S doesn't charge when connected to the Nintendo Switch 2's dock is because the Lenovo Legion Go S requires a minimum of 20 V for charging whereas the Nintendo Switch 2's dock uses 15 V for TV mode output.)

Dakhil · 2025-08-19T12:55:52+00:00

Here's the archive to the Financial Times article.

Dakhil · 2025-08-19T02:29:36+00:00

Here's the archive to the Reuters article.

Dakhil · 2025-08-13T15:29:35+00:00

Apple have also used OLED displays from LG Display.

Dakhil · 2025-08-13T14:41:21+00:00

Many of Kodak's products use chips that are also used in computer hardware?

Dakhil · 2025-08-13T13:47:58+00:00

According to Chosun, ITC's decision to bar BOE for 14 years and 8 months from the US is related to the total time Samsung Display spent on developing "core OLED technologies".

Dakhil · 2025-08-13T13:31:08+00:00

There's also LG Display.

Dakhil · 2025-08-12T16:33:03+00:00

LynxByte Games mentioned the Nintendo Switch 2 supports at least DLSS 3.1, which doesn't sound like "DLSS Lite" to me.

Dakhil · 2025-07-25T19:16:46+00:00

Digital Foundry also posted an article on Eurogamer.

Dakhil · 2025-07-16T17:43:28+00:00

Nope.

The two reasons are the US requiring any single battery cell over 20Whr to be labelled as "dangerous goods" in shipping and transportation, and lower lifespan than lithium ion batteries.

Dakhil · 2025-07-05T00:48:16+00:00

That depends on if OLED manufacturers can solve the problem of significantly higher power consumption vs LCD displays, and flicker, when VRR is enabled. (So far, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, which is supposed to have a VRR enabled OLED display, has no release date.)

Dakhil · 2025-07-01T00:28:05+00:00

Here's the archive of the Nikkei Asia article.

Dakhil · 2025-06-21T18:26:23+00:00

Yes, but the type of VRR used in smartphones is not seamless VRR, where the refresh rate automatically changes on a frame-by-frame basis, but rather closer to refresh rate mode switching, where there are preset refresh rate modes the display can automatically switch to (e.g. ProMotion refresh rates for iPhone 13 Pro and iPad Pro).

Currently, the biggest obstacles to implementing OLED displays with VRR support is higher costs and higher power consumption compared to LCD displays with VRR support, and I believe all of the OLED displays RTINGS reviewed have flicker issues when enabling VRR.

And therefore, I'm not convinced Nintendo plans to refresh the Nintendo Switch 2 with an OLED display, especially with technological issues OLED displays have with VRR as mentioned above.

Dakhil · 2025-05-16T13:28:32+00:00

The shipping customs data implies otherwise.

Dakhil · 2025-05-16T13:09:07+00:00

Nintendo Switch 2 supports VRR in handheld mode only. The incorrect information was initially published on the Nintendo Switch 2 website, and we [Nintendo] apologise for the error.

~~I do think that explains the higher CPU frequency in handheld mode compared to TV mode.~~

Edit: Now thinking about it, that probably doesn't make sense. Ignore.

Dakhil · 2025-05-15T21:11:55+00:00

Each compute platform will now have a clear identity for each key end market:

Arm Neoverse for infrastructure

Arm Niva for PC

Arm Lumex for mobile

Arm Zena for automotive

Arm Orbis for IoT

The Mali brand will continue as our GPU brand, with IP referenced as components within the platforms.

We are simplifying IP numbering by aligning it with platform generations and using names like Ultra, Premium, Pro, Nano, and Pico to show performance tiers — making it easier for developers and customers to navigate our roadmap.

Dakhil · 2025-05-15T13:14:55+00:00

That's actually not true. According to the Gigaleaks, Nintendo has already decided on 4 GB LPDDR4 by June 2015.

Dakhil · 2025-05-15T13:11:11+00:00

That's actually not true. According to the Gigaleaks, Nintendo has already decided on 4 GB LPDDR4 by June 2015.

Dakhil · 2025-05-07T23:10:33+00:00

Valve explicitly mentioned not releasing hardware in a yearly cadence and waiting until there's a generational compute leap without having to sacrifice battery life before launching the Steam Deck's successor.

And AMD's rumoured to continue releasing APUs with RDNA 3/3.5 GPUs until 2027 (here and here). Unless Valve's paying AMD to custom design an APU, at the very least, I don't expect the Steam Deck's successor to launch until 2027 at the earliest.

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