Chip maker Qualcomm has already promised to deliver its first 64-bit chips later this year. But the Snapdragon 410, 610, and 615 chips are chips for mid-range devices and they’ll likely be used in mid-range smartphones and tablets. Qualcomm plans to shake things up a bit in the first half of 2015 though, whn the […]
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Intel unveils Intel Braswell chips for cheap laptops, new Bay Trail chips for $99 tablets
Intel’s low-power Bay Trail and Haswell processors are already popular options among budget notebook and tablet makers. But the company is promising its next-gen chips will offer better performance and lower power consumption, while still targeting devices that sell for under $500. The new chips, code-named Braswell, will be available as a low-cost, low-power alternative […]
Intel: Faster, cheaper Bay Trail Celeron, Pentium chips on the way
Intel plans to refresh its low-power, low-cost mobile processor lineup in time for the 2014 back-to-school season this fall. We’ve already seen that a series of new Intel Atom Bay Trail chips for tablets are on the way. Now Intel is unveiling next-gen Bay Trail and Celeron chips for notebooks, tablets, 2-in-1 systems, and desktops. […]
Intel’s first chips for wearable will be Atom, not Quark
Intel introduced a new family of tiny, low-power chips aimed at wearable devices and other pieces of the “internet of things” in September, 2013. But apparently the Intel Quark system-on-a-chip and Edison platform for wearable devices isn’t quite ready to go, so Intel has announced its expanding its wearable platform to include Intel Atom chips. […]
Intel is launching at least 9 new Bay Trail-T chips for tablets
Intel’s Bay Trail-T processors are energy-efficient chips for tablets which offer long battery life, decent performance, and support for Windows and Android software. Most Windows tablets with 10 inch or smaller screens already have Bay Trail-T processors, and a handful of Android tablets with Bay Trail chips are on the way. Now CPU World reports […]
OnePlus One smartphone will have a Snapdragon 801 CPU
Just a few weeks after announcing that the upcoming OnePlus One smartphone would be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the folks at OnePlus have updated the spec sheet. Now it looks like the phone will ship with a more powerful Snapdragon 801 chip. The new processor supports faster clock speeds and speedier memory […]
Phones with Intel’s 64-bit chips could discourage custom ROMs
Intel is getting ready to launch its next-gen smartphone chips. The upcoming 64-bit “Merrifield” processors will be the company’s most powerful smartphone chips to date, while offering longer battery life. But there may be something else that makes Merrifield chips special: Phones with the new processors may be designed to disable key features if you […]
Apple, Allwinner dominate the tablet chip market
Samsung and Qualcomm may be big names in the smartphone processor space. But you know who sells more tablet chips than anyone else? Apple… but in second place is Allwinner, the Chinese manufacturer of low-cost ARM-based processors. Research firm IDC says Allwinner shipped over 18 million tablet chips in the 4th quarter of 2013, according […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 chip comes in 3 flavors
Qualcomm’s recently announced Snapdragon 801 processor is a slightly faster version of last year’s Snapdragon 801 chip, and it’ll likely be one of the company’s fastest chips until the Snapdragon 805 arrives. The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Sony Xperia Z2 smartphones both feature Snapdragon 801 chips… but they run at different speeds. As AnandTech explains, […]
MediaTek working on a 6-core CPU
Samsung isn’t the only company that thinks there’s a middle ground between quad-core and octa-core chips. Chip maker MediaTek is apparently working on its own hexa-core processor. According to a leaked product roadmap, the upcoming MT6591 is a 6-core processor with support for HSPA+ wireless networks and 1080p HD video playback. The new hexa-core chip […]