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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 14, 2013
CES is over, we've all had a weekend to wind down and digest it all, and for mobile hardware junkies there is a lot to talk about. We saw what the big three mobile CPU builders will have to offer ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2013
Not to be outdone by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 announcement, or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 news, Samsung has announced the Exynos 5 Octa. It's an octa-core CPU that was designed with low...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 26, 2012
Qualcomm has announced that two new Snapdragon S4s are on the way, with both touting quad-core CPUs with a budget-friendly price. The MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q both build on the S4 design, com...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2012
Formerly known as a quad-core system with a fifth low power companion core, or vSMP, NVIDIA has just put out the word that its new Tegra 3 architecture will be known as "4-PLUS-1". (We wer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 09, 2011
Nvidia has done it again -- they have lifted the curtain and we now know everything there is to know about the Tegra 3 quad-core chip. We first heard about project Kal-El (Nvidia's code na...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 11, 2011
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If there's anything we love more than a tech company that's constantly pushing the envelope and developing new things, it's one that has a sense of humor...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 09, 2011
Qualcomm has released the whitepaper for their upcoming S4 SoC (system on a chip), and it's features look great. The new 28nm process technology promises "inherent advantages in frequ...
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NVIDIA releases project Kal-El whitepapers, unveils fifth companion CPU core for low-power use cases
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 20, 2011
NVIDIA has let loose some more technical talk about the upcoming project Kal-El chip, and are showing off a new patented process they call vSMP (variable Symmetric Multiprocessing). As part of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2011
The Qualcomm roadmap for the next few years has leaked out, putting a time frame on the chips they announced last February. According to the leak, we should expect dual-core LTE, HSPA, and HSPA...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 14, 2011
Without any official word from Motorola or Verizon, any mention of the Motorola Droid X2's specifications is a guess based on pieced-together information from various sources on the Internet, and lea...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2011
NVIDIA rocked Barcelona with a demo of their upcoming quad-core Tegra CPU, project KAL-EL at Mobile World Congress. It's all part of their roadmap which promises 75 times the performance of the ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 14, 2011
Chip-maker Qualcomm has announced its next generation Snapdragon chipsets, including a beastly quad-core part by the name of APQ8064 which will run at up to 2.5 GHz. APQ8064 is based on Qualcomm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 10, 2011
Samsung has sent out a press release about something we all love -- fast CPUs for mobile products. They will be changing the name of their product line to "Exynos" -- from the Greek sm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 07, 2011
Texas Instruments held a webcast today, where they announced the OMAP 5 processor. While it's not expected to be seen until mid 2012, it brings a lot of new tech to the table. The OMAP 5 w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 28, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingWhere do we expect the LG Optimus 2X and its dual-core Tegra 2 processor to shine the brightest? Gaming, of course. We've thrown just about everything we can think ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 12, 2010
Samsung first announced their dual core, 1GHz, ARM cortex A9 A9 cpu, named appropriately enough Orion back in early September. Thing seem to be progressing quite nicely, as Engadget just had som...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2010
That T-Mobile G2 overclock from yesterday? It just got faster, and released to the public! As the developer says, his particular G2 can reach 1420 MHz, but most all G2 CPU's should see a s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 26, 2010
According to files inside the leaked engineering test ROM for the G2 that recently showed itself, the phone is confirmed to be using a MSM7x30 Snapdragon processor, which has the high-octane Adr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 15, 2010
Let's not mince words here: The Samsung Galaxy S class of phones is powerful, both in raw processing and graphics. We've seen as much from the 1GHz Hummingbird processor every time we've used it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 16, 2010
So long as we have the HTC Aria, let's do some benchmark tests, shall we? The second Android phone from AT&T has a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor at 600MHz. And before you start screaming about ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 15, 2010
If modding the Evo 4G to work with the Palm Touchstone isn't warranty-voiding enough for you, take a look at this. XDA member coolbho3000 has cranked his Evo's Snapdragon processor up to 1.267GH...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
If you're into packing all sorts of things into tiny spaces, this little bit of news is right up your alley. SK Telecom showed off a prototype called Android SIM that would combine a processor, m...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 10, 2008
So we've covered the hardware aspect of the HTC Dream now we're getting news of the specs that'll drive the device that'll power up Android (via Gizmodo). Here's what it looks like:
3.17" screen wi...
