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Samsung and Apple tipped friendly on chips

Chris Burns | Nov 17, 2014

This week a tip has come in from Korea that Apple may well have made up and shaken hands with Samsung for future chip production. This would be a multi-billion-dollar deal as it would remove TSMC from the equation, pushing Samsung back into the limelight for Apple device innards. Samsung has been a chipmaker for Apple before, but they had a bit of a falling out over the past several years. The chip chop talk goes back to 2012 and springs forward to the Apple iPhone 6 chip - not made by Samsung.

Maingear brings Intel i7 8-Core Extreme to custom PC lineup

Chris Burns | Aug 29, 2014

This week the folks behind the custom-constructed gaming PC collection known as Maingear have announced they’re rolling with Intel’s newest hardware. Working with Intel’s new 8-Core Extreme Processor in their lineup, they’ll be releasing their hardware to the public as soon as possible.

Intel Core i7 Extreme Processors revealed

Chris Davies | Aug 29, 2014

Intel has taken the wraps off of its latest flagship performance processors, the Extreme line, formerly known as Haswell-E. The trio of chips - the Core i7-5820K, Core i7-5930K, and Core i7-5960X - and the new Intel X99 Express chipset that launches alongside them target gaming and multimedia systems, with up to eight cores and clock speeds as high as 3.9GHz.

Galaxy Note 4 Exynos beats Qualcomm Snapdragon 805

JC Torres | Jun 24, 2014

One leaked configuration of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phablet shows an unreleased Exynos 5433 processor. While that may sound rather unexciting, scores from AnTuTu has just revealed that this Samsung octa-core chip outperforms Qualcomm's top high-end processors.

Intel and A4WP aim for wireless computers in 2016

Chris Burns | Jun 4, 2014

This week Intel has made clear their intentions to create a wireless PC universe in the year 2016. With their post-Broadwell Intel Core processors, the company will aim for wireless charging in all things. This week the company makes plain their plan to bring systems like magnetic resonance charging to the public.

Intel Broadwell chips promised for Q4 2014

Chris Burns | May 19, 2014

There should be little doubt now that the Broadwell generation of Intel chips will be out before the end of the year. This means higher-power processing and lower energy consumption - and it means Intel is bringing on chips faster than previously reported.

NVIDIA Jetson TK1: $192 for CUDA-powered supercomputing

Chris Burns | Mar 26, 2014

There’s a relatively tiny device being prepared by NVIDIA right this minute with the name "Jetson" in its title. This device is very similar to the NVIDIA Jetson we saw in 2013 - almost exactly one year ago to the week - but here NVIDIA is being much more up-front about it. Here you can jump right in and buy.

NVIDIA SHIELD’s GameStream ready to pair with gaming notebooks

Chris Burns | Mar 25, 2014

Support for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 800M collection of graphics processors is now ready alongside several other sets of processing hardware for the NVIDIA GameStream experience. What this means for NVIDIA SHIELD owners is that their gaming laptop, if too large for any given situation, can be used to stream games to their NVIDIA SHIELD. This ability will be activated immediately if not soon for a number of Kepler and Maxwell based GPU-toting notebooks.

Qualcomm knocks out record quarterly revenue, MSM chip shipments, device sales

Chris Burns | Jan 29, 2014

In the quarter of the year that ended on the 29th of December, 2013 - the financial quarter, that is - Qualcomm reported this week that they'd pulled in record numbers. Record quarterly revenues, MSM chip shipments, and device sales reported by licensees, each of them higher than Qualcomm had ever seen for this particular quarter any year previous. This stacks up well with a quarterly revenue of $6.62 billion USD - that's up 2% compared to the quarter before this one and up 10% year-over-year.

Tegra K1 Denver release is NVIDIA’s first 64-bit outing

Chris Burns | Jan 5, 2014

Bringing on a 192-core processor in the NVIDIA Tegra K1 wasn't a big enough release for NVIDIA at CES 2014. Instead they had to go beyond a single Quad-core A15 iteration - they decided to deliver two iterations of this mobile processor this week - one is that quad-core version, the other is a dual-CPU-core processor based on NVIDIA Denver. Denver, if you did not know, works with 64-bit architecture.

Google reportedly contemplating designing and using its own chips

Brittany A. Roston | Dec 13, 2013

In what could end up being a blow to Intel, Google is contemplating both designing and using its own server processors, according to a source who spoke to the folks at Bloomberg. There would be several benefits for the Internet giant if it decides to undertake such efforts, particularly the control offered over the crossroads betwixt software and hardware. Nothing has been set in stone, however, and the source says plans could end up changing.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 official: Ultra HD playback at head

Chris Burns | Nov 20, 2013

Having pushed the Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor earlier this year and seeing applied to a relatively large cross-section of top-tier smartphones and tablets alike, Qualcomm has brought on the next step in the Snapdragon 805 here at the tail end of 2013. This processor will work in machines inside 2014 and will bring on - first and foremost - support for Ultra HD video playback. What's especially interesting about this ability is the fact that while some mobile smart devices have already been able to record Ultra HD starting at 4K, they've not been able to play it back - Qualcomm makes it so here with the 805.