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…
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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…
Intel: Atom Line Up Not Going Anywhere
Digitimes ran a story today indicating that Intel reportedly plans to rename the brand names of CPUs under its Cedar Trail platform in 2012. According to their industry sources they are doing so because as demand for netbooks and nettops built with its Atom-branded processors…
Manufactures Looking for CPU Price Drop on Ultrabooks
I saw this one coming a mile away! I’ve been saying for weeks now that Intel should subsidize the end cost of Ultrabooks for the consumer and apparently the manufacturers agree! Both Acer and Compal are looking Intel to help them drop the price on…
Intel Next Generation Processor Haswell Demo at IDF 2011
Haswell microarchitecture uses the same 22nm process CPUs as Ivy Bridge. It would reduce the power consumption in Ultrabooks by 20x as compared to current designs thus providing ten days of connected standby by 2013.
Two chips are meant to accelerate the evolution of the…
Solar Powered Ultra Low TDP CPU at IDF 2011 Keynote
Intel’s Day 1 Keynote had a few interesting demo’s looking into the future of mobile computing, we got to take a look at a solar powered setup that was showing off an ultralow TDP CPU. The device was running Windows 7 and showed a small…
AMD’s Brazos E-450 Processor Reveals a Few More Details
Details on AMD’s upcoming update of the Brazos platform, the E-450 APU have been leaked. At Computex in June we found out that the it will feature an updated HD 6320 graphics card, a bit higher CPU clock and support for higher clocked memory.
The…
Qualcomm Krait Roadmap Leaked – 1.7GHz Dual & 2.5GHz Quad Core
Qualcomm Krait roadmap gets outlined all the way to 2013 according to a very detailed roadmap focused on their upcoming mobile chipset. The MSM8960 which is due out later this year is the high end chipset that will be sporting 1.7GHz on its dual core…
