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Qualcomm reports stellar Q4 earnings with $4.12 billion in revenue

Rue Liu, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm reported its fiscal Q4 earnings today, revealing a revenue of $4.12 billion, which is a 39 percent increase from the same period last year. Net profit rose 22 percent from the same quarter last year, jumping up from $865 million to $1.06 billion. The chip maker also issued a strong guidance forecast, exceeding analyst expectations. Read The Full Story

Intel’s Xeon E5 specs and pricing released

Rue Liu, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

Intel is expected to launch two new Xeon E5 subfamilies of processors in early 2012 with the E5-1600 and the E5-2600, the latter of which already has its specs and pricing leaked. CPU-World published a list showing the details on every E5-2600 model, revealing what specs we might expect to find with upcoming systems, such as Apple's early 2012 Mac Pros. Read The Full Story

ARM announces 64-bit ARMv8 chip architecture

Rue Liu, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

ARM announced today its very first 64-bit microprocessor architecture called the ARMv8. This new chip architecture will help ARM expand beyond mobile devices, putting it in more direct competition with Intel and AMD in the PC and server space. The company's current 32-bit ARMv7 chip architecture and the lack of enterprise software support have hindered its efforts so far. Read The Full Story

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Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor powers first Nokia Lumia smartphones

Chris Burns, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [2]

This morning at Nokia World 2011, two flavors of Nokia’s Lumia line were released, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, and Qualcomm now reports that yes, indeed, they are being powered by no less than their very own Snapdragon processors. This is the first time Nokia has entered into the Windows Phone world as well as the first time Nokia has worked with Qualcomm to combine both of their well-loved architectures. With all the coverage on the smartphones themselves this morning, one must see the energy here, in the motor, and what better way to usher in a single new collaboration than with a second!

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TSMC starts 28nm production: NVIDIA & AMD in but Apple absent

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

TSMC, tipped to be biting into Samsung's supply contract with Apple, has announced that it has begun volume production of 28nm chips and has products already shipping to customers, though the company did not confirm Apple was one of them. Instead, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Altera all get name-checked, with AMD and NVIDIA saying they will be using the 28nm process silicon in their next-gen graphics products. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA shows off dazzling enhancements in Batman: Arkham City [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's time to check out Batman: Arkham City for the first OFFICIAL time running with NVIDIA's DirectX 11 Graphics and GPU Physics, certainly a sight to behold and set to be released on November 15th! In short, this game Arkham City builds on the ground-breaking 2009 game by the name of Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the first games on the market to make use of Hardware-Accelerated PhysX effects which enhanced not only background details but incidental items as well, plus whole levels such as, as NVIDIA notes, the Scarecrow's nightmare world* (*included at the end of this post, for those of you that've never been there.) Now behold, footage from Arkham City, a game running with the graphics card it was made to run with, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, with PhysX enabled for the greatest amount of detail you can imagine! Read The Full Story

ARM A7 and A15 for inexpensive, high power, low demand smartphones for everyone

Chris Burns, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Cambridge-based mobile microchip industry crunching firm ARM has announced its A7 chip and the "big.LITTLE" processing to the world this week, and you already knew that from yesterday. What you might not have known, or perhaps realized, is that with A7 architecture in smart device, ARM is suggesting that a whole new generation of devices is on the way that will be below $100, this allowing large groups of people from the still without-smartphones world to join in on the fun. ARM, are you saying I'll finally be able to video chat with people who are living under the international poverty level? Read The Full Story

NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor promotional video leaks

Chris Burns, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's time to see our first advertisement-based demonstration of the capabilities of what was up until now simply called Project Kal-El, NVIDIA's next-level chip for mobile devices. This promotional video shows off a few key points NVIDIA hopes to put forth in regards to the awesomeness of having FOUR CPU cores in a single chip sitting on a tablet-like device, though the transparent nature of the device in this video might have you scratching your head wondering where all the metal went. Have a bit of fun watching what appears very much to be the first look at get at what NVIDIA has decided to call no simpler a name than NVIDIA Tegra 3. Read The Full Story

ARM unveils Cortex A7, its most energy efficient processor

Rue Liu, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

ARM has announced today a new Cortex A7 processor, hailed as its most energy efficient processor to date. The Cortex A7 delivers 5 times the energy efficiency and is one-fifth the size of the Cortex A8 processor that's common in many entry-level smartphones. It can be used on its own or as a companion core in Cortex A15 based SoCs. Read The Full Story

Samsung and Apple to continue parts cooperation beyond 2012

Rue Liu, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [6]

Despite the ongoing multinational legal feud and fierce competition in smartphones and tablets between Samsung and Apple, the two companies may extend their long-standing business relationship when it comes to the supply side. According to the Korean Herald, Samsung COO Lee Jae-yong revealed that Samsung could continue to supply Apple with crucial components beyond 2012. Read The Full Story

ARM and TSMC announce tape out of first multicore 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 processor

Shane McGlaun, Oct 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

The taping out of a new processor is one of the points on the map to full production of a new processor. This step has to be completed before the new processors can come to market. ARM and TSMC have announced that they have completed tape out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 multicore processor. Going to a smaller build process is very important to allowing processors to have better performance while producing less heat and consuming less power. Read The Full Story

Texas Instruments OMAP 5 processor demoed [Videos]

Chris Burns, Oct 17th 2011 Discuss [15]

The kind folks at Texas Instruments have released a couple of videos showing off their next generation of processors, the OMAP 5 platform, complete with graphics that’ll make you blow your spleen out. This System on Chip that’s otherwise known as TI OMAP 5 for short is one that was outed earlier this year complete with two 28nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCores running at up to 2GHz. If that means anything to you, do read on! If you’re completely baffled by processors in general, watch these videos, they’re informative!