All the stories tagged with processor
2012 will be the year AMD tablets make a splash
02/18/2011, In a report from PC magazine, the CEO of AMD, Thomas Seifert outlined the plans for the company and he clearly stated that we won’t be seeing any smartphones packing AMD processors anytime soon – they are not in the [...]
Renesas Mobile SH73704 is the world’s first DivX Plus HD certified System-on-Chip
02/16/2011, Renasas Mobile has just announced that they’ve been awarded the first DivX Plus HD certificate for their SH73704 System-on-Chip (SoC). The processor is capable of playing full 1080p HD videos in multiple formats including the ever popular ripped video format [...]
Qualcomm Krait features Quad Core, 2.5GHz
02/15/2011, Qualcomm Krait: Qualcomm has announced the APQ8064 chip, codenamed Krait, at Mobile World Congress. The new design is based on a quad-core processor
Microsoft wants Intel to develop a 16-core Atom chip
01/28/2011, According to some reports, Microsoft is pushing Intel into developing 16-core Atom chips for their server farms. Microsoft’s data servers are currently powered by Intel Xeon server-class chips. While the Xeon processors are fast enough to power their servers, they [...]
The Trim Slice is one slim computer
01/26/2011, CompuLab, an Israel-based manufacturer that specializes in small computers have announced that they will be releasing another super small PC in the near future. Called the Trim Slice, this tiny PC really is something. Its dimensions are only 130 x [...]
AMD Fusion Brings New Level of Performance (…Per Watt)
01/03/2011, [CES 2011] It was a long time in the making, but AMD’s Fusion technology has finally reached consumers with a first batch of laptops, that certainly won’t be the last. The basic idea of Fusion is what semiconductors have been [...]
Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz
01/03/2011, Samsung’s 1GHz Hummingbird processor is a pretty capable piece of silicon and now folks out there have managed to overclock the freshly released Nexus S’s processor to 1.2GHz, a nice 200MHz speed bump. While the extra number crunching capabilities are [...]
HP dv7 notebook with Sandy Bridge processor purchased and benchmarked
12/30/2010, Intel seems to have some trouble keeping machines powered by its upcoming Sandy Bridge processors from getting into the public domain ahead of its official launch. Someone out there apparently managed to purchase an HP dv7 notebook powered by Intel’s [...]
Researchers come up with 1,000-core processor
12/28/2010, Not satisfied with the dual-core or quad-core processor inside your computer? Maybe you’d want to think bigger. Scientists out there have created an ultra-fast processor that has 1,000 cores on a single chip, making it about 20 times faster than [...]
Intel Sandy Bridge processors on sale in Malaysia
12/20/2010, Can’t wait to get hold of the upcoming Sandy Bridge chips from Intel? Turns out that some lucky folks over in Malaysia have already gotten hold of the Core i5-2300, i5-2400 and the i7-2600 chips, complete in their retail packaging [...]
Quad core processors for next-gen Intel-powered notebooks
12/16/2010, CES 2011 will see the first of Sandy Bridge-powered notebooks debut, where it will offer quad-core processors to those who think that dual cores aren’t good enough for their everyday computing needs. We do know that upcoming MacBooks will sport [...]
Qualcomm to offer superior next generation chips
11/18/2010, Qualcomm has great plans outlined for its next generation of processors, where the upcoming 28nm chip is touted to deliver up to 5 times the performance of one of the company’s original Snapdragon chips. Not only that, it will also [...]
Dual-core Samsung Orion spotted
11/11/2010, The Samsung Orion dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor was recently spotted, accompanied by a quad-core Mali 400 GPU on board. This was caught by our friends at Engadget at the ARM Technology Conference this week, where said machine was running [...]
