At CES last week Texas Instruments was showing off a new Android 4.0 reference design which is based on their new OMAP 5 processor. We have to admit it looks great, but the late 2012 early 2013 release date has us wondering why they would…
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Microsoft Blocks Windows 8 on ARM Devices
If you’re not interested in taking the time to have a careful read of Microsfot’s “Windows 8 Hardware Certification Requirements” let me spoil it for you and reveal draconian policies that require vendors to block the installation of other operating systems on ARM devices.
Microsoft’s…
100 Core ARM chip From ZiiLABS
ZiiLABS, a chip designing company of Creative, is unveiling their new ZMS-40 chip that combines a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with 96 media processors of their proprietary “Stemcell” design. In their reference platform “Jaguar” this ZMS-40 chip will deliver twice the performance of their previous…
CUPP Computing’s PunkThis Heads to Tablets
Every once in a while comes a product that peaks the interest of the modding community, the Punkthis module is one of those products. We first saw it in a Macbook Pro where it could switch between Android and iOS, then we saw it in…
Nokia Concept Design Blends the N9 with the Sony Tablet S
A Nokia tablet concept design has arrived which is a blend of the Nokia N9 smartphone and Sony’s tablet S. Cameron McKinnon has made the tablet absolutely enormous measuring in at 14.3 inches.
Nokia Tab uses a massive 14.3 inch display, a 12 megapixel camera…
Intel Already Running 14nm Chips in the Labs
Next generation processors from Intel are on the way in Q1 of 2012 and Intel is on track with its Ivy Bridge architecture. Not to rest on its laurels, in an interview with Nordic Hardware, Pat Bliemer, Managing Director Intel Northern Europe, revealed that Intel…
Intel & Samsung Readying an Atom-Powered Android 4.0 Phone?
Intel has yet to release an X86 powered smartphone on the market, we got our hopes up at for Medfield and we have our fingers crossed that we’ll be seeing something at CES next month. Its not surprising that there is speculation that Intel and…
Android 4.0 Now Available on X86
Google has just released Android 4.0.1 for x86 chipsets, the Android X86 initiative has been in the works for a while and its good to know that any Intel tablets or Smartphones that may miracolously appear on the market will be able to run Ice…
Samsung Exynos Dual Core CPU has 2GHz, 2560 x 1600 Graphics
The first Tegra 3 tablet is about to hit the street and Samsung has just come up with a small reminder that they are a strong competitor in the Android tablet space. The next generation Exynos 5250 chipset comes complete with a 2 gigahertz, dual-core…
AMD Bows Out of Battle with Intel with a Move to Mobile *Update
AMD has been floundering in terms of a strong direction in mobile since CEO Dirk Meyer was dismissed in January. In a San Jose Mercury News profile, AMD spokesman Mike Silverman spoke about the new direction that AMD is looking to take in 2012. There…
ARM Launches Android Development Kit with Power Consumption in Mind
Today, ARM announced their new Android development toolkit, Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE). What makes DS-5 special is it’s focus on optimizing apps, not just for performance, but for energy efficiency — provided you’re running on ARM chips, of course. It also claims…
Intel Interested in Mali – Joins ARM as a Graphics Partner
Yesterday ARM released the design for its Mali T658 graphics processor and when it threw up the slide about who they were partnering with Intel was listed as a semiconductor partner.
Given the rivalry between ARM & Intel surrounding CPUs its pretty interesting to see…
ARM Unveils Mali T658 8 Core GPU & 4X Performance Boost
ARM currently dominates the mobile spacce with its CPU licencing model, but ARM also offers GPU cores to its partners, although we’ve seen far more limited adoption compared to its CPU offerings. The limited adoption has nothing to do with a lack of performance, a…
Intel Waiting on Android 4.0 to Release a Smartphone
Until recently Android was specifically customized for ARM processors but Intel joined the game a few months ago by showing off Android on X86. Intel isn’t planning on launching any smartphones until they get Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich up and running. We can…
Qualcomm Announces 30 Snapdragon Tablets for 2012
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM processors are found in a variety of smartphones, but in the tablet area but they are rather rare with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 being the dominant processor. All that is mean to change next year with a significant number of tablets with the…
