Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor is already one of fastest ARM-based chips around… but next year Qualcomm plans to introduce a new model that brings a 40 percent graphics boost, support for 4K Ultra HD video playback, and a new, faster CPU architecture. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 will be the first chip based on Qualcomm’s Krait […]
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MediaTek launches its first 8-core chip
Phones and tablets with quad-core chips are easy to find these days, and there are even a few models with so-called octa-core chips. But up until now most of those 8-core chips were designed so that most of the time 4 or fewer cores are actually in use. Now Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek has introduced […]
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Samsung roadmap includes 4K screens for smartphones
Samsung is outlining plans for the next few years, and the company has some big things planned for small devices. In 2014 the company plans to offer 2560 x 1440 pixel displays for smartphones, and by 2015 we could see phones with screen resolutions as high as 3840 x 2160 pixels. In other words, we […]
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Lilbits (11-05-2013): Another peek inside the Google Nexus 5
Another high profile device, another teardown from iFixit. The repair shop has ripped open a Google Nexus 5 to get a look at its insides. They liked what they saw, deeming the Nexus 5 relatively easy to repair — but let’s be honest. the odds of you fixing the $350 phone yourself instead of buying […]
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New Allwinner, Rockchip processors on the way
Allwinner is giving one of its chips for low-priced tablets a bit of a spec bump, and competitor Rockchip is outlining plans for its first quad-core ARM Cortex-A12 chip. Both chip makers produce low-power, ARM-based processors that are popular with makes of Android tablets, TV boxes, and other gadgets, and both are showing off some […]
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MediaTek introduces MT8121 quad-core chip for $99 tablets
Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek’s processors are already pretty popular with manufacturers of low-cost tablets. While the company is preparing to launch more powerful chips for higher-end tablets, it looks like MediaTek is also taking a walk on the even cheaper side. The new MediaTek MT8121 is a quad-core chip designed for tablets that will sell […]
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Allwinner roadmap includes 64-bit processors in 2015
Chinese chip maker Allwinner is laying out plans for its upcoming processors and providing more details about two chips we’ve already heard a bit about: The Allwinner A23 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 chip for budget tablets and the upcoming Allwinner A80 octa-core chip for higher-end devices. The company is also laying out plans for its first […]
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MediaTek working on ARM Cortex-A50 chips
Tawianes chip maker MediaTek recently announced it was working on an ARM Cortex-A15 chip with big.LITTLE technology. Now the company has announced that it’s licensed ARM Cortex-A50 technology, which means we could see 32-bit or 64-bit ARMv8 chips processors from MediaTek in the coming year. MediaTek has sort of come out of nowhere in the […]
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AMD’s first ARM-based chip for tablets coming in 2014?
AMD has long been the closing thing Intel has to competition in the x86 processor space. Now the company is also gearing up to take on Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and other companies that produce chips based on ARM architecture. The company has already announced plans to produce ARM-based chips for servers in 2014. According to SweClockers, […]
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Allwinner unveils Allwinner A80 Octa processor
Chinese chip maker Allwinner plans to launch its first octa-core chip. The Allwinner A80 Octa features 8 processor cores and uses ARM’s big.LITTLE technology to pair a set of high-performance cores with lower-power cores in order to balance performance and battery life in phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Allwinner tells us the chip design […]