Processors News, Reviews and Phones
Qualcomm demonstrates its future display: 5.1-inch Mirasol 577ppi screen 56
The time of super high-resolution displays has already come with pixel density of over 440ppi on most...
NVIDIA Tegra 4i already has support for LTE-Advanced, getting VoLTE soon 8
The NVIDIA Tegra 4i has been talked up as a cheaper, smaller, and more power-efficient version of NVIDIA's...
Google pushing for quick adoption of its VP9 video compression technology 17 May 2013, 01:54 12
At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google discussed its VP9 video compression technology; the company sees this...
Nvidia Tegra 4 based devices will start getting announced this quarter 13 May 2013, 09:15 7
Nvidia’s Tegra chip with its focus on graphics made it big on smartphones a couple of years ago when...
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Don't you think that some people are taking the iOS vs Android dispute a bit too far? Well, Microsoft...
Next-gen Windows RT tablets to be rocking NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor 10 May 2013, 06:18 17
Rene Haas, Nvidia’s VP of computing products, also said that “Nvidia is very invested and very committed...
First benchmarks of new quad-core MT6589T chip surface, beats HTC One X 10 May 2013, 06:07 16
MediaTek is all the rage in chips recently after the company introduced its quad-core MT6589 chip a few...
NVIDIA beats Q1 expectations with $77.9 million in profit 09 May 2013, 21:54 8
After seeing the quarterly numbers from companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung, the numbers...
NVIDIA Tegra 4 gets benchmarked, running inside a Project Shield console 08 May 2013, 03:30 30
One of the very first commercial devices to be powered by Tegra 4 will be NVIDIA's portable, Android-based...
Jon Rubinstein joins Qualcomm's board of directors 07 May 2013, 04:32 1
The mastermind behind the Palm Pre and the HP TouchPad Jon Rubinstein has now joined Qualcomm’s board...
Intel unveils Silvermont processors in the hope of finally making a dent in mobile 06 May 2013, 19:12 54
Intel has dominated the desktop processor market for quite a long time now, but it hasn't been able to...
TSMC to grab 100% of all AP orders for next year's Apple iPhone? 03 May 2013, 03:44 1
According to industry sources, chip maker TSMC is expecting to receive 100% of the orders placed for...
Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini to step down on May 16th, engineer to take the helm 03 May 2013, 02:40 4
Intel announced that Brian Krzanich will be the company’s sixth ever CEO following the retirement of...
MediaTek announces MT6572 SoC – dual-core power for entry-level smartphones 02 May 2013, 04:58 12
MediaTek – a company known for making inexpensive SoC modules for use in smartphones and other gadgets,...
Intel’s 4th generation “Haswell” processor to make formal debut at Computex, June 3rd 27 Apr 2013, 00:11 22
In just 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds, the 4th generation Core Processor, known as Haswell...
ARM CEO: by 2014, mobile devices will be powerful but consume less energy 26 Apr 2013, 11:05 33
ARM CEO Warren East said in an interview that the company's big.LITTLE technology will allow powerful...
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 going into mass production in late May 26 Apr 2013, 02:47 54
Qualcomm’s new high-end chip, the Snapdragon 800, expected to land in tablets and smartphones, will enter...
J.K. Shin: It doesn't matter which processor is running your Samsung Galaxy S4 24 Apr 2013, 14:36 117
The head of Samsung 's mobile business, J.K. Shin, said on Wednesday that Samsung Galaxy S4 users should...
ARM reports strong Q1, 2.6 billion ARM-based chips have been shipped 23 Apr 2013, 04:59 11
ARM, the company behind something like 99% of the processors powering smartphones and tablets nowadays,...
Allwinner launches A20 SoC: world’s first dual-core A7 chip 18 Apr 2013, 06:18 18
If you ever looked at the Chinese Android market, you have probably heard about AllWinner. The chip maker...
TSMC CEO confirms innovative 16nm mobile processor technology on track for year-end 18 Apr 2013, 05:16 10
TSMC's CEO Morris Chang confirmed at an investor conference today that the foundry is already at the...
Samsung signs a multi-year contract with Wolfson as 'primary audio partner' for the Galaxy phones and tablets 18 Apr 2013, 04:38 54
Samsung, in its eternal wisdom, has finally done the right thing, after dating Wolfson for the audio...
Windows 8 Tablets priced at $200? It's coming, says Intel's CEO 17 Apr 2013, 00:42 24
Has the price of a Windows 8 powered tablet prevented you from pulling the trigger? If so, we have some...
Picture of alleged Apple iPhone 5S motherboard shows A7 processor 15 Apr 2013, 10:07 51
A person who allegedly works for Apple has taken a snapshot of what is supposedly the motherboard for...
Nvidia shows off Tegra 5 running Battlefield, bashes iPad for its “vintage 1999” graphics 12 Apr 2013, 09:06 32
Nvidia has some huge plans for the future and it has just shown what mobile graphics will look like when...
TSMC kicks off 16nm FinFET manufacturing in 2013, to test EUV at 10nm in 2015 12 Apr 2013, 06:40 7
TSMC has confirmed its plans to aggressively pursue 16nm FinFET chip manufacturing by the end of 2013,...
Has Apple finalized its move away from Samsung to TSMC for chips? 10 Apr 2013, 09:36 22
We’ve heard it over and over again - Apple is trying to minimize its dependency on Samsung as its main...
Globalfoundries shows off first 3D-stacked TSV chips on 20nm 03 Apr 2013, 01:47
Globalfoundries broke a huge milestone in the quest to 3D stacking of chips, a method that will speed...
A7 chips for next year's Apple iPhone 6 to come from TSMC? 02 Apr 2013, 10:06 10
A report that originally was found in the Taiwan Economic Daily News says that inside next year's Apple...
ARM and TSMC successfuly tape out the first Cortex-A57 processor, using 16nm tech 02 Apr 2013, 06:44 21
Forget Cortex-A15 processor cores, as found in Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa processor for the Galaxy S4, and...
TSMC 20nm chip manufacturing goes ahead of schedule 02 Apr 2013, 05:33 4
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, the world’s largest chip foundry, is planning on...
Apple iPad PowerVR GPU vs Intel's HD4000: new benchmarks compare both 01 Apr 2013, 07:20 25
The iPhone brought the mobile revolution and Apple has continued its laser-focus on it with the iPad....
What's the holdup with Samsung Galaxy S4's Exynos 5 Octa version? 01 Apr 2013, 04:55 17
It turns out that Samsung went with the simpler and cheaper way to design 28nm chips like the Exynos...
Texas Instruments develops chipset enabling half the time needed to recharge battery 28 Mar 2013, 15:53 10
The new line of chips, seven in all, supply power twice as fast as the current generation of chipsets...
Samsung Galaxy S4 with Exynos 5 Octa benchmarks outscore every Android out there 28 Mar 2013, 03:47 119
On Quadrant, the GT-I9500 model scored 12,726 points, which is higher than the HTC One, for instance,...
Shortage of Exynos chip means 70% of first Samsung Galaxy S4s will have Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 25 Mar 2013, 07:06 42
A report out of Korea says that a shortage in Exynos 5 Octa chip production means that 70% of the first...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini to feature a quad-core Exynos 5210, coming this summer? 25 Mar 2013, 05:09 26
The rumored Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is likely to arrive sooner rather than later, and it could feature...
Sony, Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE to launch MediaTek-based quad-core phones soon: are the cheap 1080p devices coming? 22 Mar 2013, 04:08 16
MediaTek’s quad-core MT6589 chip is behind the boom in cheap 1080p smartphones in China, and its popularity...
NVIDIA shows 2015 roadmap with processors 100x faster (than the Tegra 2) 19 Mar 2013, 17:17 16
NVIDIA has expanded its processor roadmap to show what we should expect all the way through 2015, and...
4K UltraHD video is expected to come to Android this year 17 Mar 2013, 22:32 55
Rumors of the LG Megalodon have this potential Nexus smartphone capturing video in 4K Ultra HD and many...
Qualcomm confirms that the '600' is the other processor for the Samsung Galaxy S 4 15 Mar 2013, 23:02 42
Qualcomm has confirmed that its Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 will be the processor under the hood of the Samsung...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 benchmark tests (video) 15 Mar 2013, 04:13 98
Two versions of the Galaxy S 4 are in the cards - one with 1.9 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor,...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 specs review 14 Mar 2013, 19:07 105
Samsung trashed a football field worth of display glass to achieve the HD resolution in the S III, so...
TSMC preps Apple's next-gen 20nm A7 processor, might land in next year's iPad first 14 Mar 2013, 06:41 5
The foundry is prepped to "tape out" the new A7 chip on none other but the bleeding edge 20nm process,...
Exynos-based Samsung Galaxy S 4 to come with PowerVR SGX 544 graphics? 13 Mar 2013, 06:27 26
The Samsung Exynos 5 Octa chip is widely expected to be used in the international Galaxy S 4, and unlike...
Bloomberg: Galaxy S 4 to have Snapdragon in the US, Exynos 5 Octa elsewhere, but eye-scrolling won't make it 13 Mar 2013, 03:11 49
As far as the much rumored eye-scrolling feature goes, the sources were not entirely convinced that Samsung...
Intel to produce a batch of Apple's next A7 chipset generation 12 Mar 2013, 08:26 16
Hot on the heels of Intel cosying up to Apple for chip production comes the report that actually 10%...
Is the NVIDIA Tegra 4 faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800? 12 Mar 2013, 06:14 32
A new report has been issued that says that the NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor is faster than the top of the...
Latest rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S 4 08 Mar 2013, 11:15 128
An interesting rumor is circulating about the screen on the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and according to this...
Apple to use a Snapdragon chipset for the affordable iPhone, taps the TSMC foundry 08 Mar 2013, 02:33 15
The big news here is that Apple is tapping TSMC for producing the 28nm Snapdragon chipsets for the cheaper...










