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TSMC hunting US fab site: Makes weak “it’s not for Apple” denial

, Dec 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Chip producer TSMC, perhaps best known for snapping at Samsung’s heels in wanting to be Apple’s key SoC supplier, is hunting a US location for a new wafer fab plant, though the CEO insists it has nothing to do with Apple. “The US is one of the places under consideration,” chairman and chief executive Morris Chang said, the Taipei Times reports, ”but this has nothing to do with Apple.” However, there has been speculation that TSMC is the fab partner for the rumored Project Azalea which Apple intends to use to replace Samsung.

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Intel to acquire NVIDIA in wild rumor with Jen-Hsun at helm

, Dec 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

It appears that one of the crazier of rumors we’ve heard for a while has fired up in the processor business with NVIDIA being acquired by Intel with a CEO switch-up placing none other than NVIDIA’s current head in charge of it all. The folks at Bright Side of news have a bit of an unsubstantiated set of claims here that we’re going to go ahead and report on just as much for its possible validity as for the entertainment value it provides you, the reader, as the possibility of these two titans teaming up is not exactly on the top of our “yes, that will happen” lists for 2013.

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Intel announces the world’s first 6-watt server-class processor

, Dec 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel has introduced a new server-class processor today called the Atom processor S1200 product family. This is a new system on-chip family promising lower power levels and key features needed for server class processor such as error code correction. The processor supports 64-bit software and operating systems and virtualization technologies. Read The Full Story

Audi teams with Texas Instruments for Jacinto 5 processor integration

, Dec 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

The first car manufacturer to work with the Texas Instruments Jacinto 5 automotive infotainment processor has been announced today as being Audi with no less than their MIB High system. This collaboration will have on its mind power, real-time signal processing, and flexibility, all the while working with integrate a "rich collection" of automotive connectivity options and peripherals galore. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm unveils quad-core MSM8626 and MSM8226 processors

, Dec 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm has unveiled two new quad-core processors, the MSM8226 and the MSM8626. These 28nm silicon chipsets offer support for 13-megapixel cameras and feature an Adreno 305 GPU, which can handle video playback and recording up to full HD 1080p. Both of these processors and their Qualcomm Reference Design versions will make their appearance in Q2 of 2013. Read The Full Story

LG’s own-design H13 Smart TV chip debuts fabless silicon ambitions

, Dec 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

LG plans to follow in Samsung's footsteps by designing its own ARM processors, execs from the company have confirmed, with the first example - the LG H13 - set to debut in a Smart TV at CES 2013 next month. The H13 has been designed by LG but will be built for the company by TSMC, The Korea Times reports, a 28nm chip expected to use ARM's Cortex A15 architecture as Samsung adopted in the Exynos 5250 and used in the Nexus 10 tablet. Read The Full Story

Intel plans to make Ivy Bridge chips more power miserly

, Dec 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the biggest downsides to having an Intel processor inside of a mobile device compared to having an ARM processor is been power consumption. Intel processors traditionally use more power than competing products leading to shorter battery life for the devices using Intel processors. However, Intel is aiming to change that with the goal of reducing the power consumption on its Ivy Bridge processors. Read The Full Story

Samsung 8-core big.LITTLE chip due 2013 (but don’t expect it in the GS4)

, Nov 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung is readying an 8-core processor using ARM's big.LITTLE architecture for a reveal on February 19, it's confirmed, pairing half powerful and half frugal cores for capable and long-lasting phones and tablets. The unnamed chip will be shown off at the International Solid State Circuits conference [pdf link] next year, a 28nm SoC which combines a pair of quadcore clusters: the first, for power, running at 1.8GHz with Cortex A15 cores, and the second, for efficiency, running at 1.2GHz with Cortex A7 cores. Read The Full Story

Leaked Intel Atom roadmap unveils next gen tablet processor

, Nov 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

It's not uncommon at all for us to learn about the future processors that are coming from Intel via leaked roadmap images from press or analyst events. The latest roadmap image leaked outlines Intel's next-generation Atom processors aimed at the tablet market. The new processor is the Intel Bay Trail-T. Read The Full Story

Apple processor price hike denied by Samsung

, Nov 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

It would appear that the price hike spoken about earlier this week between Samsung and Apple has been denied by a Samsung official - albeit an anonymous one. This official spoke with the Hankyoreh newspaper in Korea, saying that prices were generally agreed upon between the two companies at the beginning of each year for hardware purchased by one and sold by the other, making a change such as the one mentioned all but impossible. This same source noted that such prices "aren't changed easily" and that the 20 percent price jump Samsung was said to have demanded from Apple was likely entirely fabricated. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA-powered Titan becomes world’s fastest Supercomputer

, Nov 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

It's been revealed this morning that the Titan Supercomputer is not just one impressive beast in and of itself, it's now officially the fastest on the planet. According to the TOP500 list update released this morning at the SC12 Supercomputing Conference, NIVIDA Tesla K20 GPU-accelerated Titan has indeed become the fastest supercomputer on Earth, and has out-done the rest of the supercomputers by a massive amount. Titan works with a massive 18,688 NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators and has topped the previous record holder here near the end of 2012, that being the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia system. Read The Full Story

If Apple can ditch Intel, it will

, Nov 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Apple rumor-mill is cyclical, and one tale refuses to die: Apple ousting Intel from its MacBooks, and replacing x86 chips with ARM-based alternatives. The story surfaces periodically, just as it has done today, with titters of increasing “confidence” within Apple’s engineering teams that Intel will be eventually ditched in favor of the company’s own A-series SoCs as currently found within the iPad and iPhone. Not today, so the whispers go, but eventually, and what’s most interesting is that we’re likely already seeing the signs of the transition in Apple’s newest models.

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