Tag archive: processor

Smartphones powered by quad-core processors are most likely going to be the thing to have this year, with HTC, Samsung, Fujitsu and others all linked to such devices. LG has now been added to the list following a leak of the X3, which is said to use Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip. Despite the slightly uninspiring rendered image of the X3 published by PocketNow.com – it is, after all, yet another monolithic slab – the rumored feature… Read More

In Japan, Fujitsu is one of the mobile industry's big players, but the company really isn't well-known for phones elsewhere in the world. At CES 2012 they've been showing some very interesting new devices, and has now confirmed in an interview they're planning a push into the North American market. Speaking to AllThingsD.com at CES, Fujitsu's senior vice president called the US market a “priority”, and… Read More

Over the past month or so, Intel has made its intentions towards the smartphone processor market clear — they want a slice of the pie that ARM currently has almost entirely to themselves. The formation of a unit dedicated to tackling the mobile sector was the first step, then came details on the Medfield chip and a look at the company's test device. The Medfield is Intel's latest, power-efficient system-on-a-chip, expressly… Read More

If we can't make batteries last longer, maybe we should make electronics that require less energy, a lot less. In its new quest to combat ARM in the mobile market, Intel has taken up this mission. On Sept. 15, the chipmaker unveiled and demonstrated a new microprocessor capable of running on “near-threshold voltage (NTV),” which means it can run on almost the bare minimum amount of power required to turn on transistors and… Read More

Rumors out today suggest that Apple will eventually switch from Intel-made processors to CPUs from ARM. According to SemiAccurate, “Apple is moving the laptop line, and presumably desktops too, to ARM based chips as soon as possible.” While the alleged move is still years away, Apple's commitment to switch is reportedly a “done deal.” Whatever information SemiAccurate received has led the site to believe that Apple… Read More

Apple will ship the iPhone 5 in September, according to multiple sources in Apple's supply chain who spoke with Reuters. The three anonymous sources also say that Apple has loaded the next-generation iPhone with a faster processor. According to Reuters' sources, production of the iPhone 5 will begin in either July or August — not September, as was previously speculated. They also say that the newest iPhone will have a similar look… Read More

With millions still waiting patiently for iPad 2 stocks to replenish (the Apple store is still showing a wait time of 2-3 weeks for the popular tablet), attention is already turning to the iPad 3, which of course doesn't actually exist yet. TouchReviews has picked up on a report on the South Korean web portal Daum, which quotes an unnamed “high-ranking official” at electronics giant Samsung as saying, “We are planning to release a 2Ghz… Read More

New MacBook Pros are in the air. We've been hearing it for a while, but now a  variety of concrete signs show that Apple will soon release its newest line of MacBook Pros, possibly Thursday, February 24. (Which is also Steve Jobs' 56th birthday, just FYI.) The first sign is a fairly obvious one: The online Apple Store has placed a three to five day wait on sales of the MacBook Pro line, reports 9to5Mac. That delay would line up just… Read More

Apple will release its new line of highly-revamped MacBook Pro laptops as early as March 1, according to a variety of rumors currently circulating online. The new laptop models are said to be powered by Intel's second-generation Core i-series processors. A “person familiar with the matter” tells Apple Insider that Apple will introduce the new MacBook Pros within two weeks time. The release is later than expected, however,… Read More

According to the Korean Economic Daily, Apple will spend $7.8 billion in Samsung component parts this year – which makes one of the manufacturer’s largest competitors simultaneously its best customers. Apple and Samsung have a variety of products directly pitted against each other. The iPad and Galaxy Tab go head to head, as do the iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy S series phones (and if you want to go international, you can throw in the iPad Touch… Read More

I imagine this is what the cold war felt like. China has unveiled a supercomputer that is 43 percent faster than any computer ever built (on Earth, by humans). Named the Tianhe-1A, it bests the previous record holder, the Cray XT5 Jaguar. China and Nvidia unveiled the supercomputer at the country's Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing, or “HPC 2010 China,” in Beijing Thursday. Tianhe-1A was designed by… Read More

As part of a general hardware redesign, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will be switching from an AMD processor to one by Via on its Generation 1.5 machine. Currently using the AMD Geode, new models will carry the Via C7-M. "The design goal is to provide an overall update of the system within the same ID and external appearance," wrote John Watlington, OLPC's vice president of hardware development . "In order to maximise… Read More

Intel may have been the first chipmaker to introduce a six-core processor with the Xeon 7400 series, but it won’t be for long. AMD played catch-up on Wednesday by unveiling its new Opteron processors for servers, which will jump from four cores to six while retaining compatibility with the old socket 1207 platform. The company demonstrated the new processors earlier this week. The so-called Istanbul uses the same 45nm processor as… Read More

Chipmaker Intel has formally announced its new Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor Family, a group of “Web savvy” system-on-a-chip designs and products that the company hopes will herald a new age of smart, Internet-enabled devices ranging from in-car infotainment to set-top boxes to industrial robotics. Formerly codenamed Tolapai, the new chips and designs represent Intel's first serious effort into the embedded and… Read More

Just days after unveiling its promising new OpenBook subnotebook platform, Via has fired up its PR machine once again to announce another big release from the company: a brand new processor line. On Thursday, Via debuted the Nano, a hyper-efficient processor bound to replace Via’s already efficient C7 processors in subnotebooks, UMPCs, and low-power-usage desktops. The new 64-bit chips will come in processor speeds ranging from… Read More