When Samsung unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet in February the company said it would have a 1.4 GHz dual core processor. But that was then. Now it looks like the company may be giving the 10 inch tablet a bit of a spec bump before launch. Nordic Hardware spotted some benchmark results that suggest the tablet will ship…
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Samsung has introduced its first quad-core chip, the Exynos 4 Quad. The processor is based on an ARM Cortex-A9 design and will power Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone — which the company plans to introduce in May. That’s probably the Samsung Galaxy S III. But it’s possible we could also see this new chip in other upcoming phone sand tablets from…
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Mobile processors with dual-core or quad-core designs are all the rage these days. But just because you have up to 4 processor cores capable of running at 1.5 GHz or even higher speeds doesn’t mean each core will be running in high gear all the time. If they did, that would certainly reduce battery life in phones and tablets with…
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NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip isn’t the only quad-core processor designed for phones and tablets… it’s just the first to show up in products that are actually shipping. But NVIDIA may not have the market to itself much longer. Samsung is starting to show off it’s new quad-core processor. The new Samsung Exynos 4 chip has four ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores…
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Acer is starting to show off an upcoming Android tablet with a quad-core processor and 1080p HD display, but the company hasn’t gotten around to officially giving the tablet a name, release date, or price yet. At today’s press conference Acer flashed a single product slide for the new tablet, and had a demo unit on display. It’s one of…
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There’s not much doubt at this point that Lenovo is working on a new tablet with a quad-core processor. Engadget scored some details (and photos) of the upcoming tablet last month, and then some leaked benchmarks hit the web. Now DigiTimes reports we may not have to wait much longer for the tablet to hit the market. Taiwanese equipment maker…
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NVIDIA has officially introduced its next-generation mobile processor. The NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip is a 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 multi-core processor with 4 high performance CPU cores, 1 extra low power “companion” core, and 12 graphics cores. The new chips are headed to tablets and smartphones. The first Tegra 3 device will be the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which…
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NVIDIA is starting to reveal some new details about the Kal-El multi-core processor that will power next-generation phones and tablets. The new chips could launch by the end of the year and show up in actual products soon after. Now it looks like we may have confirmation that one of the first devices to use the upcoming Kal-El processor may…
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NVIDIA has been talking up the company’s upcoming Kal-El processor for months, promising better performance and lower power consumption in its next-generation chip for mobile phones, tablets, and possibly even Windows 8 computers. Up until now NVIDIA had suggested that the Kal-El processor was a quad-core chip, but it turns out there’s actually a fifth processing core tucked away in there…
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Earlier this year chip-maker Qualcomm announced plans to launch a line of super-fast processors with clock speeds as high as 2.5 GHz. Now the company says those chips will start showing up in smartphones and tablets early next year. Pocket Lint reports that new chips will come in single, dual, and quad-core versions, with the high-end processors featuring next-generation Adreno…
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TechEd 2011 New Zealand is in full swing, and Microsoft looks to be playing a little bit of show-and-tell with the next generation of Windows and the devices that will run it. Among the devices shown was an unnamed quad-core Windows tablet. What else is known about the slate? Not much, other than that Microsoft’s Jeff Johnson stated that the…
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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is one of the top-selling Android tablets. That’s probably at least in part due to the fact that the $399 device is the cheapest 10 inch tablet available with Google Android 3.x Honeycomb. The optional $150 keyboard dock which nearly doubles your battery life and lets you use the tablet like a laptop probably doesn’t…
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