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 […]
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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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Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2 with NVIDIA Kal-El processor benchmarked
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 […]
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NVIDIA’s Kal-El processor will be a 5-core low power chip
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 […]
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Qualcomm’s 2.5 GHz quad-core chips coming in 2012
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 […]
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Microsoft teases quad-core tablet prototype
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 […]
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Next-gen Eee Pad Transformer in the works
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 […]
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First look at Freescale’s i.MX6 quad core chips
Chip maker Freescale introduced a new line of low power chips earlier this year based on single, dual, and quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 chips. At the time, all we really had to look at were spec sheets. But ARMDevices.net got more information about the new Freescale i.MX6 platform at this week’s Freescale Technology Forum. The company […]
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Amazon tablets could have quad-core chips, dual mode (color and monochrome) displays
Amazon execs haven’t officially come out and said that the company is working on an Android tablet. But there’s growing evidence that a line of Amazon tablets could launch later this year. CEO Jeff Bezos told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” for more details recently, which is pretty far from a denial. Last week Boy […]
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VIA introduces QuadCore low power x86 processor
VIA Technologies has introduced its first quad core processor. The 1.2 GHz VIA QuadCore chip has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 27.5 watts. While that makes it a bit of an energy hog when compared with low power ARM or Intel Atom processors, I can’t think of another quad-core x86 chip that uses so […]