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…
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Ivy Bridge Leaked Performance Numbers – Faster Than Sandy Bridge?
Moving faster then Moorse Law has been Intel’s moto for a while and we’re eagerly awaiting the successor to Sandybridge, Ivybridge. Chinese website Coolaler has gotten their mits on an engineering sample of Intel’s 22nm-based Ivy Bridge platform. They’ve scored a desktop quad-core chip, 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…
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…
Asus Transformer Prime Shows Itself in AnTuTu Benchmark
In the process of reviewing the Asus Eee Pad Transformer…, the writers at Tech2 were surprised to see the Asus Transformer Prime pop up at the top of the charts in the AnTuTu benchmark app (version 2.4.2):
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HTC to Follow in Asus’ Footsteps, Bringing an NVIDIA Kal-El Tablet to Market?
DigiTimes reports that IC orders for tablets and smartphones are growing as the holiday buying season approaches. Mentioned in the report is news that NVIDIA has supposedly taken orders from both Asustek and HTC. We already know Asus is already coming out with a Tegra…
How Many Praying Mantis Does it Take to Power a Smartphone?
In a very clever attempt to demonstrate just how low power their new processors are, Qualcomm has come out with a Bug Circus video that actually calculates energy usage in terms of PMU: “Praying Mantis Units.”
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors take up less energy and therefore…
Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks to Get “Retina Display” like Screens in 2012?
Like the marketing term or not, Apple’s ~330 PPI “Retina Display” is still top of the heap among mobile device screens. So far no other manufacturers have been able to produce displays with such high PPI, but the current crop of qHD screens on many…
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…
Nvidia CEO: Updated Tegra RoadMap Confirms Tegra 3 by Christmas
We’ve always heard that we’d be seeing Quad Core Tegra 3 in the Fall. At Super Computing 2011 in Seattle Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huagn gave a keynote where he reassure us that Nvidia will be delivering the next generation Tegra 3 chipset for the holiday…
Chromebooks Looking to Get a Hardware Upgrade To the Core i Series
One of the complaints against the Chomebook is that its too expensive for what is essentially netbook hardware. So its great news for the smartbook form factor that Intel is rumored to be giving Google Chromebooks a 10-20% discount on Core i Series processors that…
Freescale i.MX6 Quad-Core Reference Design Hands On
When you think Freescale usually I think eReaders or affordable tablets, so checking out their quad-core reference design puts idea’s of flashier devices in my head. The Freescale i.MX6 platform supports up to four ARM Cortex A9 processing cores and is going to be aimed…
Dual Core ARM Cortex A15 to Ship in Devices by end of 2012
Its not even Easter and already we’ve got news of ARM speeding up their roadmap with news that its next generation system-on-chip, the Dual Core Cortex-A15 will be available in late 2012 rather then 2013. This is great news for Smartphones and tablets everywhere considering…
