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Apple A6X revealed: New flagship chip

, Oct 23rd 2012 Discuss [9]

Apple has unveiled its latest mobile chipset, the Apple A6X, replacing the already-capable A6 in the third-gen iPad, and doubling performance compared to the A5X along the way. The new chipset, a custom SoC using ARM cores, delivers not only that 2x CPU grunt but doubled graphics performance too. It's the new chipset at the heart of the 4th-generation iPad. Read The Full Story

Intel Q3 profits fall 14% with PC demand on the drop

, Oct 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

With Windows 8 on the horizon and the school season just beginning, it would appear that Intel's profits this most recent quarter are not doing as well as they had the quarter before it. Today's Q3 earnings report showed Intel to have a third-quarter profit fall of 14% while they noted operating expenses as being on the climb and personal computer sales declining. The quarter reported today showed Intel with revenue of $13.6 billion, this number having a range of error plus or minus $500 million. Read The Full Story

Apple gives Samsung the chip chop

, Oct 15th 2012 Discuss [31]

Apple is moving to actively replace Samsung in its key supply chain roles, it’s reported, minimizing its Korean foe’s involvement to the bare minimum the two firms are contractually obligated to. Fueled by patent war antagonism, Apple sliced out Samsung’s input from the design of its Apple A6 chipset found in the iPhone 5, sources tell The Korea Times, with an unnamed Samsung official apparently telling the paper that Apple “made it clear it will no longer use” the technology of its rival, relying on them only to manufacture the chips themselves. However, even that collaboration may be short-lived.

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Amazon weighing TI mobile chip business grab tip insiders

, Oct 15th 2012 Discuss [1]

Amazon is reportedly in "advanced negotiations" to acquire Texas Instruments' OMAP chip division, bringing chip design for its Kindle tablets in-house, and helping TI refocus on embedded systems. The deal in discussion, Calcalist reports, follows TI's public distancing from its own phone and tablet chip business in the face of rising competition from Qualcomm, Samsung, and others, though Amazon taking charge of OMAP could leave rivals Barnes & Noble in a tricky situation. Read The Full Story

AMD Z-60 APU for skinny Windows 8 tablets revealed

, Oct 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

AMD has revealed its new processor for tablets, the AMD Z-Series APU, intended to take on not only Intel's Atom but the ARM-based chips found in the majority of slates on sale today. The AMD Z-60 has, with a 4.5W TDP, the lowest power consumption of AMD's line-up, and is expected to bring its 1GHz dualcore speed to tablets as slim as 10mm with the first models - running Windows 8 - tipped for later this year. Read The Full Story

New iPad 3 appears in code with A6 processor onboard

, Oct 7th 2012 Discuss [11]

It would appear that if indeed Apple is going to show a new iPad mini inside the next few weeks, it'll be released right alongside a new iPad (3rd gen) as well, complete with A6 processing power under the hood. A developer has discovered in their standard Apple developer's logs that a brand new iPad - designation iPad 3,6 - pointing towards a modified version of the latest iPad on the market today. This release would come alongside an iPad mini at an iTunes-centered event inside October. Read The Full Story

AMD unveils new A-Series processors

, Oct 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Chipmaker AMD has announced retail availability of its new A-Series APU. This is a second generation APU aimed at DIY computer builders constructing their own desktop, small form factor, or home theater computers. AMD says that the A-Series APU offers affordable performance, discrete-level graphics, multiple cores, and fast processing. Read The Full Story

BlueStacks Android apps on PCs made simple with AMD AppZone Player

, Sep 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Another rather fabulous step towards total cross-platform compatibility has been made this week as the AMD AppZone Player is announced with full BlueStacks power under the hood. What you'll be doing here is working on your AMD-toting PC with an application called AMD AppZone Player - with this app you'll be able to play any and all AMD AppZone Android-based apps at your leisure. At the moment you'll not have direct access to the Google Play app store, but there's always a workaround. Read The Full Story

Texas Instruments sidelines phone and tablet chip business

, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [5]

Texas Instruments has announced it will scale back its mobile processor business, no longer targeting smartphones and tablets, but instead eyeing the embedded systems market. The surprise news follows further contractions in TI's business, most recently seeing long-standing customer Motorola pick up Intel's Medfield for the RAZR i, though TI says it will continue to support its existing clients, Reuters reports. Read The Full Story

Apple A6 teardown reveals dual-core CPU, tri-core GPU power

, Sep 25th 2012 Discuss [6]

A teardown of Apple's A6 mobile processor powering the new iPhone 5 has revealed some details this afternoon. Like many of their previous processors there's been a lot of mystery around just what exactly is powering the new device, but thanks to iFixit we now have an in depth teardown of the A6 processor itself. Read The Full Story

Intel: LTE Medfield by end of 2012 plus dualcore incoming

, Sep 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel's first LTE-capable Medfield smartphone chips are in the pipeline, along with multicore versions of the processor, with the first examples due before the end of 2012. Intel will be "shipping some LTE products later this year and ramping into 2013" director of product marketing Sumeet Syal told TechCrunch, and in the meantime the company is working on fettling more Android apps to suit the x86 architecture. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm touts their Snapdragon processor power – from 2 years ago

, Sep 20th 2012 Discuss [5]

Today the folks from Qualcomm have released a neat little video showing off just how impressive their Snapdragon processors that power most of today's (and yesterdays) smartphones truly are. Qualcomm's been a leader in the mobile processor space for a long time, and are powering some of the most popular phones like the Galaxy S III and HTC One X. Read The Full Story
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