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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

Intel belatedly grab spotlight for record-breaking Tianhe-1A supercomputer

Chris Davies, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Remember the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer which NVIDIA took credit for "powering" with its Tesla GPUs back in October? It seems Intel would like some of the processing credit as well; they've pushed out a press release of their own, claiming it's Intel Xeon 5600 series processors that "powers" the world's fastest supercomputer. Read The Full Story

AMD Llano Fusion APU launch delayed to H2 2011 over poor production rates?

Chris Davies, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [1]

AMD's Llano Fusion APUs may promise to revolutionise HD video and graphics, but it seems the company has to finesse their production first. According to DigiTimes' sources at motherboard manufacturers, lower than expected yield rates for 32nm chips at Globalfoundries has led to a delay in Llano's launch, with AMD concerned that large chunks of its early batches could be defective. As a result, there's talk that the original launch in the first half of 2011 has been pushed back until early in the second half of the year, with mass production not tipped until August or September 2011. Read The Full Story

Marvell unveils 1.6GHz quad-core Armada XP processor for cloud computing

Shane McGlaun, Nov 8th 2010 Discuss [3]

Marvell has unveiled a new processor that it is aiming at cloud computing and other applications. The new processor is called the Armada XP and it is the industry's first quad-core ARM processor for enterprise applications. Read The Full Story

Intel Chief River notebook chips to see mass-production in Sept 2011?

Chris Davies, Nov 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel has supposedly been paving the way for mass production of its upcoming Chief River notebook platform, according to DigiTimes' shady sources at motherboard manufacturers. Built using the company's 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, and boasting native USB 3.0 support, Chief River will apparently go into production in September 2011, with an official launch following in January 2012. Read The Full Story

MacBook Pro 15/17 get 2.8GHz Core i7 options

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple's "Back to the Mac" event may have been all about OS X 10.7 Lion and the new MacBook Air range, but the company's web gibbons have also been fiddling with the processor options for the MacBook Pro. Intel's 2.8GHz Core i7 processor is now listed as an option for both the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro notebooks, though you'll need to opt for the high-spec versions in order to select it. Read The Full Story

AMD demo Llano CPU/GPU hybrid and Brazos chips [Video]

Chris Davies, Oct 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has been talking about its Fusion technology for some time now, and the company got around to demonstrating it - together with holding up a big AMD Llano wafer - at a Taipei press conference this week. SemiAccurate caught the video, together with a second demo showing AMD's Brazos platform in action, while Hexus grabbed some shots of a Llano validation board. Read The Full Story

TI opens semiconductor wafer fab in Chengdu, China

Shane McGlaun, Oct 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

TI makes chips and all manner of processors for electronics devices and other gear that we all use every day. The company has announced that it is expanding its semiconductor fabrication capacity with the announcement of the purchase of a new fab facility in China. Read The Full Story