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AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU and Radeon E6760 GPU get official

Chris Davies, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

You can't accuse AMD of playing favorites this week: there's something new for both its power-users and more mainstream, mundane purposes too. The AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition processor takes care of the former, a new flagship quadcore which comes unlocked for easier overclocking. Meanwhile, the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU is the company's new embedded video chip, nonetheless capable of driving six independent displays. Read The Full Story

Samsung 2GHz phone “by next year” as Exynos takes on Tegra 2

Chris Davies, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [4]

Samsung is looking to challenge Qualcomm's Snapdragon and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 with a significant processor push that will take chipset speeds to 2GHz and broaden availability across manufacturers. According to a Samsung exec quoted in the Maeli Business Newspaper, the company intends "to release a 2GHz dual core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year," going on to suggest that the handset "will have the data processing capacities of a regular PC." Read The Full Story

Cloverview tablet chip hints dropped by Intel

Shane McGlaun, Apr 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel is the world's largest maker of microchips and as such, the company has a chip for just about anything that might need one. Intel has been hinting that it might have a new chip that it is currently developing called the Cloverview chip. The chip is apparently an Atom part that has been tweaked to be more power efficient. Read The Full Story

Samsung facing AMOLED and chip shortages amid production line delays

Chris Davies, Apr 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung Mobile Display's 5.5-Gen AMOLED production line - previously expected to begin manufacturing of 7-inch tablet displays, such as the Super AMOLED demonstrated in a Galaxy Tab prototype, this year - is likely to suffer up to three months of delays before become operational, due to supply limitations. According to MK, Japanese suppliers are still encountering issues meeting their orders in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, with the potential to impact components Samsung provides to Apple. Read The Full Story

AMD desktop Fusion APU processors due Q3 to take on Intel Sandy Bridge

Chris Davies, Mar 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD is reportedly readying the first desktop versions of its APU-based processors for a release in Q3 2011, following the successful launch of the Fusion APU notebook range back in January. According to DigiTimes' sources, the first batch of desktop Fusion fun will include six A-series 32nm Llano APUs debuting at Computex in June, while a further five chips will follow on in Q4. Read The Full Story

Intel details microserver play: sub-10W chips in 2012

Chris Davies, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

If ARM and AMD thought they could sneak up on Intel and snatch the burgeoning micro-server market out from under the chip giant, they'll be sorely disappointed. Intel has detailed its roadmap [pdf link] for low-power processors, with two new sub-45W TDP Xeon chips already in production and the promise an even more frugal Sandy Bridge based CPU later this year and a new Atom for servers in 2012. Read The Full Story

ARM server chips taking on Intel with 480 core clusters

Chris Davies, Mar 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft isn't the only company looking to many lower-powered chips to replace a few high-powered CPUs in modern servers; ARM's first server processor has been detailed by Calxeda, a quad-core chip squeezing up to 480 cores in a 2U chassis. According to Computer World, the new ARM processors will be based on Cortex A9 cores - the same family as used in NVIDIA's Tegra 2 - and have an onboard interconnect fabric for communication between the nodes. Read The Full Story

Intel Atom Z670 three-times Tegra 2 pricing to OEMs?

Chris Davies, Mar 11th 2011 Discuss [10]

Pricing for Intel's Atom Z670 processor has leaked, and it looks set to cost three times what NVIDIA is charging for its Tegra 2. According to Fudzilla, the 1.66GHz chip - which Intel expects to be used in tablets, such as Samsung's Sliding PC 7, and bring the fight to ARM - will be an eye-watering $75 to OEMs. In return, they'll get a 5W TDP chip with a single core, two threads and 512KB of cache. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook dumped Marvell for TI chip (and six month delay)?

Chris Davies, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's obviously chipset roundabout day, with word that Apple is ditching Samsung for the Apple A5 SoC in the iPad 2 followed by news that Texas Instruments scooped Marvell on the BlackBerry PlayBook processor six months into its RIM contract. According to TechEye's source at Marvell, the 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP4430 at the heart of the PlayBook was not RIM's first choice, and in fact the Canadian company had been working for over half a year with the chipset rival. Read The Full Story

Apple ditching Samsung for A5 iPad 2 processor?

Chris Davies, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [2]

Apple has reportedly ditched Samsung for the Apple A5 dual-core processor at the heart of the iPad 2, taking up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) for production of the current-gen 40nm chip and a future 28nm version. According to EETimes' source, Samsung's increasing role as an iPad and iPhone competitor led Apple to TSMC's door. Read The Full Story

Dell Sandy Bridge ultra-slim notebook imminent

Chris Davies, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

Dell has promised the imminent unveil of a new Sandy Bridge based ultra-slim notebook "that will answer a few questions plus bring performance and style together in a big way." Tipped for reveal within the next six weeks, the unnamed ultraportable will follow a refreshed Inspiron range using Intel's 2011 Core processor line-up. Read The Full Story

ASUS CEO: 3D quadcore tablet in 2011, maybe Windows Phone in 2012

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

ASUS has confirmed plans to launch a 3D tablet running a quadcore processor sometime in 2011, though the slate will not have 3D cameras like the LG G-Slate. Speaking to hi-tech.mail.ru, ASUS CEO Jerry Shen said that quadcore chips - presumably NVIDIA's Kal-El - will be essential for smooth video playback at Full HD resolution or higher. The company is aiming to be the second largest player in tablets by 2012, with a 5 to 8 percent market share. Read The Full Story