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Acer Aspire One 721 Features AMD K145 CPU in Czech Republic

Evan Selleck, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

It doesn't happen all the time, but it's not so rare that we're shocked to find an unannounced chip supposedly making its way into a very announced laptop. The Acer Aspire One 721 originally launched with the Nile line of AMD processors, which are said to offer better performance and battery life than their Intel competitors. The Aspire One 721 is able to play back HD video, and it has plenty of performance under the hood for quick operations. However, with the upgraded chip, it looks like the laptop could get even better. Read The Full Story

Intel pricing Huron River out of the game as Calpalla stocks won’t shift?

Chris Davies, Dec 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel is actively discouraging sales of its new Huron River chips, according to sources at notebook manufacturers, despite machines based on the new processors expected in early Q1 2011. DigiTimes sources claim that ASUS, HP, Dell and Acer will all continue to push existing Calpella-based notebooks for the next three months, as Intel reduce Huron River discounts in an attempt to clear sixth-gen Centrino chip stock. Read The Full Story

Apple Sandy Bridge testing tips huge CPU/GPU refresh

Chris Davies, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple's future processor and GPU plans are the subject of numerous leaks today, with sources revealing that the company has been testing Intel Sandy Bridge Core iX chips for several months now, ahead of including them in future MacBook Pro and Mac Pro models, among others. Meanwhile, the company is also tipped to be considering solely using Sandy Bridge integrated graphics in its entry-level notebooks and ultraportables, while higher-end machines would switch from NVIDIA chips to AMD's Radeon range. Read The Full Story

Intel expecting 35 Atom tablets in 2011; Dell’s Intel Android plans quietly deleted

Chris Davies, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel has announced manufacturer partners intending to produce 35 Atom-based tablets in 2011, with systems running Windows, Android and MeeGo all on the cards. CEO Paul Otellini confirmed the news at a tech conference this week, describing the two versions of Atom - Oak Trail and Moorestown - as targeted at Windows and Android/MeeGo tablets respectively. However, Intel has also been modifying its slide-deck since the presentation, removing mention of Dell from the Android-on-Atom column. Read The Full Story

TI OMAP4440 processor debuts: 1.5GHz dualcore, 3D 1080p and more

Chris Davies, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Texas Instruments has announced its latest mobile processor, the TI OMAP4440, a SoC packaging a pair of 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPUs along with two ARM Cortex-M3 cores to power-efficiently offload time-critical and control tasks. Coupled with the POWERVR 3D graphics engine, that provides a quoted 1.25x increase in graphics performance (including 2x faster HD video playback, with support for 1080p60 and 3D stereoscopic 1080p) and a 30-percent cut in webpage loading times. Read The Full Story

Asetek Liquid Cooling for Small Gaming PCs, 3U Servers, and Workstations

Chris Burns, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [1]

Such a bunch of little cuties! These are Asetek's new liquid CPU coolers that are aimed at supporting PCs with 92mm fans. These three new liquid coolers are made for OEMs and system builders, the models including a single exhaust port, single-CPU cooler; a dual exhaust port, single-CPU cooler; and a dual exhaust port, dual-CPU cooler. Get yourself some cool, quiet speed! Read The Full Story

Acer Windows 7 tablet to use AMD Bobcat APU confirm insiders

Chris Davies, Nov 25th 2010 Discuss [5]

Acer was pretty miserly with hardware details for their 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet earlier this week, but that hasn't stopped specifications being pieced together. According to manufacturing sources talking to DigiTimes, the so-far unnamed Acer slate runs AMD's C-50 Ontario APU, aka the dual-core Bobcat CPU, with integrated Radeon HD 6250 graphics. Read The Full Story

Intel Oak Trail tablet platform in mass production; ARM still not worried

Chris Davies, Nov 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel has apparently begun mass production of its Oak Trail platform, targeting tablet PCs. According to DigiTimes' industry sources, the platform - which combines an Atom Z670 processor and SM35 chipset - will sell for around $25 with MeeGo to OEMs; if they want Windows 7, they'll have to shell out more. Read The Full Story

Samsung Orion tablet gets previewed ahead of presumed 2011 debut

Chris Davies, Nov 19th 2010 Discuss [3]

Samsung's next-gen tablet platform apparently made a preview appearance at the ARM Technical Symposium 2010 in Taipei this week, confirming for the first time that the company intends to use its dual-core Orion processor in larger-screen slates. The prototype - which DigiTimes refers to as Orion, which as far as we're aware is actually the chipset itself - also has a quad-core ARM Mali-400-based GPU capable of encode and decode of Full HD 1080p with an HDMI 1.3a output that can be concurrently run while the Cortex A9 chip simultaneously drives two onboard displays. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm next-gen Snapdragon MSM8960 detailed: LTE, CPU & GPU boost, more

Chris Davies, Nov 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm has outed the first in its next-generation Snapdragon family, the MSM8960, a dual-core chipset with around 5x the performance of the original Snapdragon, 4x the graphics performance, and an integrated multi-mode modem supporting both 3G and 3G LTE. Expected to being sampling in 2011, the MSM8960 will be built on 28nm processes, and use 75-percent less power than the first-gen Snapdragons. Read The Full Story

Intel Sandy Bridge Processors Confirmed for January Debut

Evan Selleck, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Despite the fact that November is quickly coming to a close, and there's plenty of celebration to be had between now and the beginning of the new year, there are a few people out there who are already looking forward to January for an entirely different reason: CES 2011. And with that giant event, companies from all over the globe are going to be showing off new designs, and new ideas. Intel, one of the companies to watch at the event, has confirmed that they will be showing off their brand new Sandy Bridge processors at the event. Read The Full Story

Intel tips incoming Sandy Bridge processors

Shane McGlaun, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's always a great time to be a computer geek when new products are inbound from Intel. The entire ecosystem of hardware including mainboards tends to be updated when new processors are coming and the Intel Sandy Bridge offerings that are inbound are bringing other cool hardware like mainboards with them. Read The Full Story