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Samsung overtakes Apple as top chip customer globally

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

At this time last year, Apple claimed the top spot of the world's largest semiconductor customer, but it looks like they'll be handing the crown to someone else this year, specifically Samsung, who now holds the throne this time around. According to research firm Gartner, Samsung bought more chips than any other company in 2012. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: January 22nd, 2013

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

This morning we're getting in down and dirty with such a variety of technological breakthroughs your brain is going to flip. Start your mind-blowing off right with an announcement of the official Google Glass Explorer Edition coming to developers "in a couple of months." Next be sure to see Audi's own super strange Swarm lighting for their futuristic cars of tomorrow. Amazon has brought forth in-app purchases for all manner of software - Mac, PC, and web games included. Read The Full Story

Intel launches budget-friendly Ivy Bridge processors

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Intel's Ivy Bridge processor architecture has been kicking it in public for almost a year now, but the new chips weren't very friendly towards the budget crowd. However, the company finally released new Ivy Bridge processors that cater towards the frugal bunch, including new Celeron, Pentium, and Core dual-core chips. Read The Full Story

Samsung 8-core Exynos 5 Octa chip revealed with two sets of four cores

, Jan 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

CES 2013 has already brought some very exciting news about mobile processors, with NVIDIA revealing its Tegra 4 processor during its press conference earlier in the week. Not one to be outdone, Samsung today officially pulled the veil off its 8-core Exynos 5 Octa chip. Comprised of two sets of four cores, the Exynos 5 Octa is obviously geared toward keeping things moving fast and fluid, even when multiple applications are running on your mobile device. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 vs Samsung Galaxy Note II

, Jan 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

With the Lenovo IdeaPhone K900, the company enters in the race for a real live hero phone for the whole world, here reminding us instantly of the other massive smartphone in this warring market – the Samsung Galaxy Note II. What we’ve got here is a real live fight for a dominant beast, a massive machine made to rule them all, starting with displays – and Lenovo takes the cake with resolution right out of the box. Samsung, on the other hand, has the physically larger display (though it is a bit less dense in its pixel distribution.)

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AMD announces Kabini, Kaveri, Richland, and Temash APUs at CES 2013

, Jan 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

AMD held their press event here at CES 2013, and announced a slew of new accelerated processing units (APUs). And as typical fashion of any chipset maker, they were full of codenames. The company announced Kabini, Kaveri, Richland, and Temash APUs today, the first and the last being AMD's first true SoC APUs. Read The Full Story

Apple said to be working on “Project Azalea” to replace Samsung as chip maker

, Dec 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Over the last few days, several states have been hinting that they're trying to attract a major semiconductor manufacturer to set up shop in the US, and some new details have just recently emerged. New York, California, Texas, and Oregon are all said to be competing to become home to a major chip maker that will have ties with Apple. Read The Full Story

Texas Instruments announces plans to lay off 1,700 workers

, Nov 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

It isn't exactly a secret that Texas Instruments has been struggling in the mobile space a bit lately, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that today the company announced it will soon be broadening its focus when it comes to its OMAP processors. We've heard about such a change before, but today Texas Instruments is giving us a better idea of what pros and cons this broader focus will have. While the company will be able to save a healthy amount of money by focusing less on the smartphone space, this unfortunately means that TI will be letting around 1,700 employees go. Read The Full Story

Samsung raises mobile processor prices on Apple

, Nov 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung and Apple have been at each other's throats through various patent suits all around the world for a long time. In some places, Apple has won a few and in others, Samsung has won. Apple won a jury award against Samsung of roughly $1 billion in the US. However, Samsung is trying to get the case thrown out with allegations of juror misconduct. Read The Full Story

ARM announces energy-efficient 64-bit Cortex-A50 processors

, Oct 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

ARM has announced its new Cortex A-50 Series, a line of energy-efficient 64-bit processors. According to the press release, the Cortex A-50 Series is the world's most energy efficient 64-bit processors "set to drive the next era in mobile and enterprise." The series is comprised of two processors: the A57 and the A53. Read The Full Story

IBM claims chip breakthrough using carbon nanotubes

, Oct 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

IBM has reported that they're making great strides on developing a new technology that will continue to make chips smaller, while also making them continually faster at the same time. Using carbon nanotubes, IBM scientists have been able to build hybrid chips with more than 10,000 working transistors. Read The Full Story

AMD to develop 64-bit ARM processors for servers

, Oct 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

AMD has unveiled its plans to produce 64-bit ARM-based processors for servers, stating that it will be the first company providing x86 and 64-bit ARM solutions. This move aims to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for more energy-efficient 64-bit server processors. The first 64-bit ARM-based processor will be an AMD Opteron, and is slated for production in 2014. Read The Full Story
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