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Article | 20/05/2013 Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says
Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a ...
Article | 17/05/2013 Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut
A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of...
Article | 9/05/2013 Nvidia says Tegra 4 devices will be announced this quarter
The first mobile devices to use Nvidia's Tegra 4 chips will be announced this quarter, meaning smartphones and tablets based on the new processor shou...
Article | 9/05/2013 Galaxy S4's U.S. version needs added image processor for eye-tracking
Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image proces...
Article | 8/05/2013 New boot firmware a step toward 64-bit Windows RT
A standards organisation has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT.
Article | 8/05/2013 More support for Windows RT, this time from Nvidia
Nvidia will stay on board with making Tegra ARM-based processors for Windows RT tablets despite sluggish early sales of the devices, making the same c...
Article | 8/05/2013 Intel: Keeping up with Moore's Law becoming a challenge
Intel will advance Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more challenging as chip geometries shrink, according to...
Article | 6/05/2013 Intel's new Atom chips peak on performance, power consumption
Intel's upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and...
Article | 2/05/2013 MediaTek to improve low-cost Android smartphone performance
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT65...
Article | 2/05/2013 AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit
Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip busi...
Article | 2/05/2013 Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost
Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already re...
Article | 30/04/2013 Samsung builds chips to supercharge your smartphone
Samsung began production of the industry's first ultra-high-speed, 4Gbit, LPDDR3 mobile memory, which it says has performance levels comparable to the...
Article | 30/04/2013 Details expected soon on Intel's $200 laptop and tablet chip architecture
Intel is expanding into low-cost laptops and tablets starting at US$200 with new low-power Atom chips based on an architecture called Silvermont, whic...
Article | 30/04/2013 Consortium takes steps to break multicore programming barriers
Programming for multicore systems can be complex, so an industry consortium led by Advanced Micro Devices has taken a step ahead in its goal to elimin...
Article | 29/04/2013 Intel starts countdown clock for next-gen Haswell chips
In just a few weeks, Intel's one-chip-fits all family of core processors will finally meet Microsoft's one-design-fits all operating system, Windows 8...