All the stories tagged with processor
Renesas ARM Cortex A8 announced
12/01/2009, Renesas’ latest ARM Cortex A8 has just been announced, where this application engine for mobile devices will target next generation handsets in addition to smartphones and netbooks. Known formally as the SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 (SH73720), this little processor is [...]
Intel to insert chips in brain
11/20/2009, Intel wants to have chips (theirs, obviously) inside our brains in the future so that there is no need for a mouse or keyboard to take charge of our computers. Dean Pomerleau is the brains behind this vision, where he [...]
AMD Breaks 7GHZ Barrier
11/14/2009, While most people out there are talking about Intel’s Core i5 or i7, let’s not forget about AMD’s Phenom II processor. As can be seen in the picture above, some folks have managed to break the 7GHz barrier with this [...]
VIA Nano 3000 Series Processors
11/03/2009, VIA has updated their line of Nano processors with new Nano 3000 chips that will boast a 64-bit architecture, differing in speeds ranging from 1GHz to 2GHz. Regardless of their clock speed, all of them can handle 1080p HD video [...]
AMD 6-Core Thuban Processors In 2010
11/01/2009, With Intel bullying AMD around with its Core i7 processors, AMD will be gearing up to hit back with its rumored AMD Thuban 6-core processors. While AMD hasn’t officially confirmed but, but the Thuban should sport 45nm processing cores, support [...]
AMD Thuban hexa-core processors
09/21/2009, AMD is going to roll out hexa-core processors to consumer computers, otherwise known as the Thuban. In addition, these uber-fast processors will be backwards compatible with current AM3 and AM2+ motherboards, making us wonder whether this could dent Intel’s bottom [...]
Samsung Hummingbird Could Prove To Be Serious Competitor
07/27/2009, Samsung could very well up the ante when it comes to mobile device processors after releasing the fastest 45 nanometer (nm) core based on ARM Cortex-A8 mobile processor in the industry, also known as Hummingbird. This new Cortex-A8 implementation is [...]
Maximum PSP Go Processor 44% Faster Than The PSP
07/03/2009, We knew that the PSP Go was faster than the PSP-3000, but “by how much” was still a subject of speculation. It is not anymore as an FCC filing makes the PSP Go speed official. With a 480Mhz frequency, it [...]
Next Generation Atom Processors Improve On Graphics
06/30/2009, With each new generation of processors, we end users generally benefit from improvements incorporated into such releases. Well, it seems that the new Pineview generation of Atom processors will be able to run much cooler thanks to better heat dissipation [...]
Intel Atom Pine Trail Out This October
06/10/2009, Intel will be rolling out its next generation of Atom processors, known as the Pine Trail, with this October being the earliest date. This would mean Intel will be phasing out the Atom N270 (and some people think the N280 [...]
