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AMD’s Next Generation Road Map – Reveals Intent to Execute

In case you missed it AMD is turning over a new leaf with CEO Rory P. Read and with him a road map focused on delivering on promises and bringing products to market.  Lisa Su Senior VP and General Manager of Global Business Units gave…

Tegra 3 VS TI OMAP – Notion Ink Explains Why They left Nvidia

The Notion Ink Adam wasn’t exactly the most popular tablet on the market, but it did capture the heart of geeks because of its use of cutting edge technology like the Pixel Qi screen. The next generation Adam tablet has been announced and it’s running…

Nvidia Keplar GPU Shipping to Ultrabooks

NVIDIA’s latest graphics solutions, Keplar, have started trickling in to OEMs, so we can hopefully see this solution shipping in Ultrabooks and Notebooks in the April-June time period. Nevertheless, the true, large batch of Kepler GPUs will only be sent out at some point around…

AMD Looking to Trinity to Boost Sales in Q4 2012

AMD released its sales numbers in a call on Tuesday and there were defiantly mixed signals.  AMD has always played second fiddle to Intel and this quarter was no different AMD boasted $1.7 billion in revenues, while Intel had $13.9 billion.
Typically AMD has been…

Intel Atom ‘Clover Trail W’ Windows 8 Tablets Launching End of 2012

Intel has just started shipping its Cedar Trail Netbooks last week, which got them in under the wire for making their 2012 time frame.  Now that they’ve finally gotten that out of the way, its time for speculation on when their next generation processors are…

Intel Finally Starts Shipping Cedar Trail Atom Processors for Netbooks

Intel has finally officially announced that its new Cedar Trail Atom processors are available, we’ve seen early benchmarks and some reviews of early devices like the ASUS Eee PC X101CH. We are expecting to see the first Cedar Trail devices ship in early next year…

Intel ‘Medfield’ CPU Performance & Power Consumption Leaked, Looks Good

Intel showed off a Medfield smartphone prototype to MIT last week and the initial impression was good. Now VR-Zone has gotten a few performance numbers for the “Medfield Tablet Platform” a few weeks before we’re expecting hands on at CES. The system these numbers came…

Intel Atom Next Generation CPU Detailed, Focus on Server Revealed

We always take news from Digitimes with a grain of salt but we do have to admit that this rumor makes a lot of sense. Apparently Intel will be switching their focus from netbooks to servers, low power servers have been increasingly gaining traction over…

Intel Atom N2600 Benchmarks With AMD C50 & N570 Comparison

The N2600 is part of Intel’s new line of low-power CPUs, named Cedar Trail, and is built on 32 nm lithography. The official specs for the CPU are not yet available, but we do know that we have a dual-core CPU, with HT, clocked at…

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…

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Tablet Hands On [Video]

Qualcomm announced a few new processors to the Snapdragon line up today and showed off a reference design tablet on the S4 platform.   The new Snapdragon S4 processors are aimed at lowering design, engineering, and inventory costs. They are also optimized for use with a…

Intel Adjusts Atom Roadmap? Adds Tablet Specific “Saltwell” in 2012

Intel is reportedly working on changing next years mobile computing roadmap by adding in another series designed specifically for use in tablets. Originally Intel’s “Medfield” CPU was going to be targeted at both devices but will now focus solely on handsets such as smartphones. The…

Nvidia: Tegra 3 Vs Tegra 2 [Video]

Nvidia is set to launch Tegra 3 for the first time on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and the question becomes what how much better is Tegra 3 compared to Tegra 2? According to Nvidia the Tegra 3 processor provides up to 3x the graphics…

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 Snapdragon S4 gets Detailed

The kind folks at Qualcomm in San Diego have decided to detail the Snapdragon S4 processor in a white paper for us to flip through over our Sunday coffee. What we now know is that its manufactured a new 28nm manufacturing process alongside the company’s…