Ultrabooks are a new class of thin and light laptops which feature Intel processors, solid state disks, and other premium features including fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. If you’re wondering why they need Intel chips, it’s because Intel coined the word “ultrabook” and has trademarked the heck out of it. But Intel doesn’t have a […]
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Samsung unveils Exynos 5250 2GHz ARM Cortex-A15 chip
Samsung is the first company to produce processor samples using ARM’s new Cortex-A15 designs. The Samsung Exynos 5250 is a 32nm chip with a 2 GHz dual core processor. It’s likely aimed at next-generation tablets, smartphones, and other low power devices. According to Samsung, the new chip can handle 14 billion instructions per second, making […]
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Cedar Trail netbooks might not arrive until 2012, but Asus is getting ready
Intel unveiled its next-generation Atom chipset for netbooks this summer, but netbooks with the new Intel Atom Cedar Trail platform hasn’t actually hit the streets yet. VR-Zone says the delay is due to problems with graphics drivers, which could push the launch date for the chips until the end of December, which means we won’t […]
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Next-gen ARM Mali GPU to bring 10x the graphics performance
ARM has introduced a new graphics core design which will offer ten times the performance available from the ARM Mali-T400 chips available today. In other words, you get a 1000% graphics performance boost over the chip in the Samsung Glaaxy S II, which is one of the fastest phones available today. The new ARM Mali-T658 […]
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NVIDIA introduces the Tegra 3 multi-core processor for tablets, phones
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 […]
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Google Android 4.0 offers better support for x86 chips
Google’s Android operating system is built on open source software, and that’s allowed device makers to tweak the OS and install it on a wide range of devices. While most Android phones and tablets released so far have shipped with ARM-based processors, we’ve also seen devices with MIPS chips or Intel processors. But up until […]
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30 Qualcomm-powered tablets in the works
Chip maker Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are found in dozens of smartphones, but only a handful of tablets such as the HTC Flyer, HP TouchPad, and Huawei MediaPad. But that could change next year. In an interview with Fudzilla, a top Qualcomm executive mentioned that there are currently 30 tablets in development featuring Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. […]
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Ultrathin notebooks with AMD chips coming in 2012?
Next year chip maker AMD is expected to launch its answer to Intel’sultrabook platform. Ultrabooks are basically thin and light laptops that weigh less than 3 pounds, have starting prices under $1000 and have Intel chips. But really, they’re just thin and light laptops — which is why I’m dubious that the name will really […]
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ARM introduces Cortex-A7 low power chips for sub-$100 smartphones
Chip designer ARM has introduced a new platform for low power chips that are 20 percent the size of ARM Cortex-A8 processors… and which use only about 20 percent as much power. The new ARM Cortex-A7 processors are designed to power low cost, entry level smartphones and other mobile devices. While ARM says the chips […]
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Qualcomm S4 chips will offer more performance, use less power
Qualcomm has been talking about its upcoming S4 class of mobile processors since before they were even called S4 chips. We already knew these new processors would be able to run at clock speeds as high as 2.5 GHz and that they’d support Windows 8 as well as Android, Linux, and other operating systems. Now the […]