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First Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 benchmarks hit the web
- Benchmarks for Qualcomm’s highly anticipated Snapdragon 800 SoC finally hit the web last night as a handful of publications convened in San Francisco for a day of testing and poking around. Although there’s still some waiting ahead before we see…
AMD A4-5000 Review: The affordable ultraportable APU
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In 2006 AMD announced 'Fusion', a project aimed to develop a system on a chip that combined a CPU and GPU on a single die. Fast forward to this day, AMD has taken things a step further with Kabini, the first ever quad-core x86-based SoC.
AMD are releasing their first Kabini based processors today with the launch of the A6-5200 and the A4-5000. The A4-5000 that we are reviewing features four Jaguar cores clocked at 1.5GHz, a total L2 cache of 2MB, and the Radeon HD 8330 GPU on-die.
Nexus 7 refresh expected at I/O: upgraded SoC and display, same price
- With Google I/O just around the corner, speculation is starting to mount about what the company might show next week in San Francisco. The next major update to Android seems like a given, but according to KGI securities analyst Mingchi…
Qualcomm says Snapdragon 800 easily beats Nvidia's Tegra 4
- All eyes in the mobile world are on Nvidia’s upcoming Tegra 4 processor. The hardware maker wisely showcased the chip’s performance potential this week at Mobile World Congress and it came as little surprise that the quad-core Cortex-A15 processor and…
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 800 and 600 series chips, promises huge performance gains
- Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs took the stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center last night to unveil the company's latest chipsets: the Snapdragon 800 and 600 series. The former will appear in “premium” mobile devices in the second half of…
ARM announces 64-bit Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors
- Yesterday it was revealed that AMD was planning to build 64-bit ARM-based processors for server use. They won’t arrive until sometime in 2014 and quite frankly, we didn’t have much information about the ARM chips in question. That’s all changed…
Next-gen Atom to feature 8 cores, OOE and Turbo Boost
- Intel's next generation Atom-based SoC is on the way and Xbit Labs provides some of the details. Dubbed Avoton, Intel's upcoming system-on-a-chip will be based on 22nm Silvermont architecture and feature eight cores sharing 4MB of L2 cache (1MB per…
Weekend tech reading: What HTPC users can expect from Trinity
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Intel started the trend of integrating a GPU along with the CPU in the processor package with Clarkdale / Arrandale. The GPU moved to the die itself in Sandy Bridge. Despite having a much more powerful GPUs at its disposal (from the ATI acquisition), AMD was a little late...
Raspberry Pi gets new 1GHz turbo mode, more
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced several updates for its credit card-sized computer, as well as new profiles that can increase performance by up to 50% by overclocking the single-core ARM11 processor. Owners will be able to choose from one of five set overclocks...
Quad-core Atom CPUs to power Intel's next-gen SoC, report says
- According to CPU World, leaked documents indicate Intel plans to launch a new quad-core Atom variant dubbed "Silvermont". When released, the 22nm-based CPU will be the first Atom-based processor to sport more than two cores. Silvermont is intended to supplant…
Samsung to invest $1.9 billion in mobile chip line, readies 20nm and 14nm production
- South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced plans to invest about $1.9 billion in building a new non-memory chip line to address booming demand for mobile processors. The new production line will be built by the end of next year…
Samsung confirms Exynos 4 Quad for Galaxy S3 smartphone
- Following on from releasing a Galaxy S3 teaser at the beginning of the week, South Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced that their Exynos 4 quad-core mobile chip will power the now-imminent Galaxy S3 smartphone, bringing an end to speculations…
Mobile SoC graphics performance to soar past Xbox 360 by 2014
- Nvidia is predicting that by 2014, mobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) GPUs will be more powerful than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console. In fact, mobile GPUs are expected to equal the graphics processing power of the 360 by next year.
Intel details three smartphone-bound Medfield chips
- Intel offered a glimpse at its plans for the smartphone market today at MWC and shared some details on three different Atom chips destined for handsets in 2012. The first of the bunch is the Atom Z2460, a single-core, dual-thread…
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 4 "Pro" with faster onboard GPU
- Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon S4 processor, featured inside the recently announced HTC One X, has already garnered plenty of good press after benchmarks emerged showing it blew everything else out of the water in terms of CPU performance. Although the S4…
Engineers boost CPU/GPU speed 21%, could be a glimpse of AMD's future
- North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a method of boosting processing performance by more than 21%. Although many processing designs by Intel, AMD and ARM house CPU and GPU cores in the same package, the components still function mostly independently.
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