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Qualcomm roadmap leaks; Rivals “haven’t mastered” power/performance balance says VP

Chris Davies, Jul 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Details of Qualcomm‘s processor roadmap for 2012 and 2013 have emerged, with the company planning to leverage its “Krait” next-gen chips for up to 2.5GHz quadcore MSM8974 SoCs. According to a roadmap leaked to MobileTechWorld, the MSM8930 and MSM8230 will arrive first, in Q3 2012, with dualcore 1-1.2GHz Krait cores, Adreno 305 graphics and LTE/HSPA+/TD-SCDMA support. It’s all part of what Qualcomm chipset VP Raj Tulluri described to SlashGear as a “measured” approach to the battery and performance balance, something the exec doesn’t believe rivals NVIDIA or Texas Instrument can compete on.

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ARM looks to provide Mali mobile GPU with PS3 and Xbox 360 power in next 18 months

Shane McGlaun, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [5]

ARM is the dominant player in the mobile realm for processor and graphics processors that are able to provide the performance that consumers want in small handheld devices and still squeeze all the runtime possible out of the battery onboard. ARM is working on new designs for future products and is teasing with the power it has in store for its future hardware. ARM claims that within 18 months its Mali GPU will allow a mobile phone to be as powerful as the PS3 or Xbox 360. Read The Full Story

ASUS 13-inch NVIDIA Android laptop in works; Samsung, Toshiba & Acer planning similar?

Chris Davies, Jun 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung, Toshiba, ASUS and Acer are all readying ARM-based laptops hoping to restore the reputation of the little-loved "smartbook" segment, according to the latest talk in Taipei. According to DigiTimes' sources, ASUS has prepared a 13-inch notebook using an unspecified NVIDIA chip - potentially the quad-core Kal-El expected to show up in commercial hardware from August - and running Android, with a launch toward the end of 2011. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Windows 8 own-brand tablet with TI chips tipped

Chris Davies, Jun 8th 2011 Discuss [6]

Microsoft is tipped to be considering an own-brand tablet PC running Windows 8, according to the latest rumors from Taipei, with the slate apparently powered by Texas Instruments silicon. That's the word from DigiTimes' sources in the supply chain, who suggest that Microsoft is looking to copy its branding strategy from its success with the Xbox/Xbox 360 - though not, of course, with KIN - and take on Apple's iPad directly. Read The Full Story

iPhones And iPads To Get Intel Chips In The Future?

Rue Liu, Jun 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

We've talked about speculation before that Apple may be considering switching their foundry from Samsung to Intel for their ARM-based A4 and A5 chips. It seemed unlikely that Intel would be willing to fabricate chips not using their own technology, but now new reports from analysts reveal that Intel may do so in exchange for Apple to ditch ARM architecture in the future. Read The Full Story

Small solar panel could power Pixel Qi and ARM tablet

Shane McGlaun, Jun 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Earlier this week, we put up a video of Pixel Qi showing off its new and thin screens for tablets and other devices. The cool thing about all of the Pixel Qi screens is that they are designed to be easy to read in direct sunlight and to consume very little power. At Computex Pixel Qi was also showing off another very cool item along with the new screens. The company was demoing a tablet that could get all the power needed for the Pixel Qi screen and an ARM-powered tablet mainboard from a small 1W solar panel. Read The Full Story

TI OMAP4470 1.8GHz dual-core coming 1H 2012 to take on Kal-El and Intel

Chris Davies, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

Texas Instruments has outed its latest OMAP4 platform processor, the OMAP4470, at Computex this week, a dual-core ARM A9 1.8GHz chip intended for smartphones, tablets and ultra-thin notebooks. Designed not only with Android and other Linux OS in mind, but with Windows on ARM – one of the incoming Windows 8 builds – the OMAP4470 takes on not only traditional TI rivals like NVIDIA’s Tegra and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, but Intel’s latest Atom and Sandy/Ivy Bridge chips too. SlashGear caught up with Mark Granger, OMAP platform marketing head, to find out how TI has delivered an 80-percent boost in browsing performance and 2.5x the graphics potency.

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ARM Expects To Conquer 50% Of Mobile PC Market By 2015

Rue Liu, May 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

As Intel is attempting to gain more of a foothold in the smartphone market, ARM is hoping to advance in the mobile PC market. ARM licenses its chip technology to the likes of NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and a whole slew of other mobile chip manufacturers and thus ARM leads when it comes to smartphones. But the company would like to gobble up more of the mobile PC market pie, which includes netbooks, laptops, and tablets. Read The Full Story

CUPP PunkThis packs full ARM PC into your notebook’s HDD bay

Chris Davies, May 30th 2011 Discuss [3]

CUPP Computing had high ambitions for its hybrid PC technology, fitting a complete ARM-based mini-PC into the chassis of a regular computer, and giving users the choice between normal power and the long runtimes of the frugal chipset; now the production version, "PunkThis", is ready for showtime. A 2.5-inch SATA form-factor board, the CUPP PunkThis module is intended to replace the HDD in a typical notebook: in its place, you get a 1GHz TI OMAP DM3730 paired with 512MB of RAM, a Mini PCIe SSD to replace the host storage, and shared flash memory for both systems. Read The Full Story

Apple A5 based MacBook Air prototype reportedly in testing

Chris Davies, May 27th 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple is not only rumored to be considering ARM-based MacBook notebooks but has apparently already been experimenting with prototypes, according to the latest leaks out of the company. The test mule resembles a MacBook Air, Macotakara reports, only with the same dual-core Apple A5 processor inside as used by the iPad 2. Read The Full Story

Intel: We’d make custom chips possibly with rival cores

Shane McGlaun, May 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

When it comes to the computer realm Intel supplies the vast majority of all the processors that are used inside computers today. When it comes to the mobile market with tablets and smartphones, Intel has no chips that can compete with rival ARM and others on low power consumption so it's not a force in those markets. Intel is apparently willing to consider making processors in its foundries using its high-end manufacturing tech that aren't based on Intel core designs. Read The Full Story

Windows 8 To Demo At Next Week’s D9 Conference

Rue Liu, May 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

We may be getting our first taste of Microsoft's much anticipated Windows 8 tablet OS interface very soon. We previously reported that a preview of the platform would likely happen in June. And indeed, Microsoft Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, has just been confirmed to appear at next week's D9 Conference, where its rumored that he will demo the new tablet UI. Read The Full Story