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SlashGear 101: What is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Game Pack?

Rue Liu, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

At the Uplinq 2011 conference today, Qualcomm announced that it will be working with game developers to create an optimization program for console-quality games, which will include a "Game Pack" of 100 mobile games for Android. This step towards gaming optimization seems similar to rival NVIDIA's approach with their Tegra 2 processors that are optimized for PlayStation gaming. However, Qualcomm plays it a bit differently by not restricting their games to only Qualcomm Snapdragon powered devices. Read The Full Story

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

AMD “Desna” Chips For Tablets? Roadmap Leaked

Rue Liu, May 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Early last month we talked about AMD possibly heading into the tablet market, with announcements brewing up as Computex 2011 approaches. Well, it looks to be the case now that a massive multi-page company roadmap for AMD has been leaked. Currently, the company has its C-30 and C-50 chips aimed at the notebooks market that includes an iterated AMD Radeon graphics core capable of handling 3D graphics acceleration and 1080p video playback. Read The Full Story

Intel’s New Atom Chip Architecture Coming

Samia Perkins, May 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

Intel is currently working on a new Atom chip architecture, codenamed "Silvermont". This new architecture goes beyond the Ivy Bridge with 22nm 3D Tri-Gate transistors. The new Google Chromebooks use Atom processors, but the Silvermont architecture speeds things ahead by two generations. Continue past the cut for more details. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm’s Next-Gen Snapdragon Chip Details Leaked

Rue Liu, Apr 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

A Qualcomm presentation was leaked that reveals its plans for the next-generation Snapdragon processors. The company is quite ambitious, suggesting that it would not only beat existing ARM Cortex A9 chips currently used in devices such as the iPad 2 and the Motorola XOOM, but that it would also beat future Cortex A15 chips by the time its new chip architecture arrives later this year. Read The Full Story

Intel Debuts 10-Core Xeon E7 Processors

Rue Liu, Apr 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

Intel today announced a new family of Xeon E7 10-core dual-threaded processors. The Xeon E7 is intended for both servers as well as very high performance computers and is Intel's first chip to surpass eight cores. Read The Full Story

Intel Shipping XMM 6260 HSPA+ modem, Introduces LTE XMM 7060

Samia Perkins, Feb 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel announced on Monday that it will begin shipping the XMM 6260 platform to key partners. The plaform supports HSPA+ networks with download speeds up to 21Mbps and upload speeds up to 11.5Mbps. The platform is said to use less power than competitor's products (especially ARM). XMM 6260 is built with the 40nm manufacturing process, and is based on the X-GOLD 626 baseband processor and the SMARTi UE2 RF transceiver. Read The Full Story

AMD’s Radeon HD 6700 Series Specs Leak Into the Wild, Offer Twice the Power

Evan Selleck, Sep 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

On a Chinese-based website called Chiphell, details on AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 6700 Series graphics cards broke cover, offering up pretty much every bit of detail that people would be interested in, all in an organized fashion. The new series is set to replace the Radeon 5700 series, and AMD (at least on the leaked image) says that the new series will offer up "twice the horsepower" compared to the previous chips. Read The Full Story

SanDisk’s 64GB SSD is Smaller Than a Postage Stamp

Evan Selleck, Aug 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

Even as devices get smaller and thinner, one of the things keeping them from getting too small or thin are the components inside. For example, memory. Despite the fact hard drives (HD) and solid state drives (SSD) are already pretty small, we need them to get smaller if we want even smaller gadgets and toys. We just didn't expect it to get this small. SanDisk has officially unveiled their new 64GB SSD, which is smaller than a postage stamp. Read The Full Story

GlobalFoundries building 28nm processor chip factory

Brenda Stokes, Jul 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

GlobalFoundries is taking their goal to make more advanced processors very seriously and have started building a new factory dubbed Fab 2 in Saratoga County, New York. Read The Full Story

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890 launched with 1GHz speed

Brenda Stokes, May 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

AMD did something a bit surprising today. They've announced a new version of their ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics chipset that will be factory-overclocked to bump up the standard speed from 850MHz to 1GHz. Read The Full Story

AMD receives WHQL certification on first day of Windows 7 program

Brenda Stokes, May 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

AMD announced today that their Windows 7 graphics driver has been certified by Microsoft on the very first day of the latter company's program that tests compatibility with the new operating system. The certification was given for the Windows Hardware Quality Lab or WHQL and is meant to indicate a driver is compatible with both Windows Vista and Windows 7. This is good timing, considering AMD will be releasing their ATI Catalyst 9.5 by the end of the month. So, people that use ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 series graphics cards can rest assured the new software will make them work completely with Windows 7. Apparently, this also allows ATI Stream technology. The WHQL certification comes on the very first day of Microsoft opening their certification program. Nice way to jump in there with your graphics driver first, AMD!