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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 19, 2013
Smaller than Tegra 4 but still boasting some serious processing power
NVIDIA this morning took the wraps off the Tegra 4i, the next iteration in its recently announced Tegra 4 family. In a nu...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Intel is hoping to become more competitive in 2013 with new manufacturing processes that will shrink chip circuitry from 32 to 22 nanometers (nm) in size. The chip maker has been trying its bes...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 30, 2012
ARM-based processors seem to be the future of computing, especially in applications that require power (and heat) efficiency, like tablets and smartphones. Trying to skate to where the puck is going, ...
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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 Phil Nickinson
Jun 26, 2012
Qualcomm this morning announced the Snapdragon SDK at its Uplinq conference, "giving developers and device makers the ability to differentiate their applications on devices by exposing a new se...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 24, 2012
We're nearly halfway through the year, but things are just getting started for NVIDIA, general manager Mike Rayfield told analysts on Thursday afternoon.
NVIDIA has 30 devices planned for the y...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
Try to contain yourselves here, folks, but the upcoming (and still unannounced) Samsung Galaxy S III apparently will use a quad-core Samsung Exynos system, a "high-ranking" Samsung exec to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Fun fact about Apple events: You see a lot of clean slides and graphs and charts and stuff. Often, they're too clean. At Wednesday's iPad event, Apple claimed its A5X processor performs four...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 12, 2012
Your first time with a Chinese smartphone that marks the beginning of a new era of Android computing is a lot like your first time with a woman. You're pretty sure you know what you're gett...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 10, 2012
One of the more exciting pieces of mobile news for 2012 -- Intel's introduction into the Android ecosystem -- is also one of the more difficult ones to show you. Well, that's not entirely tr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 09, 2012
We're back for another liveblog, this time from everybody's favorite system-on-a-chip-maker, NVIDIA. The company certainly has scored big in the last year, first with the dual-core Tegra 2 s...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 16, 2011
New chips with better performance and enhanced battery life are always welcomed in our devices, right? Well this morning Qualcomm announced some additions to their new lines of processors, bringing ...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 13, 2011
Google's Andy Rubin was on hand today at Intel’s Developer Forum to announce some interesting news regarding the future of Android and the hardware which it will run on. As such, Intel Corporat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 16, 2011
We're all still wrapping our heads around dual-core processors. So it only makes sense that Nvidia decided to drop the next next generation mobile processor on us at Mobile World Congress. Codenamed ...
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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 Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingWhat's a new smartphone without some benchmark tests, eh? Here we have the new HTC Evo Shift 4G. And with it's 3.6-inch touchscreen, 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7630 process...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 19, 2010
These days, folks scoff at the thought of running anything less then a 1GHz processor on their devices. However uncalled for that scoffing may be, those that do will be glad to know the next generatio...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Sep 07, 2010
No, not that Orion. Put that Google Sky Map away. We're talking about Samsung's new dual-core processor will be seen at the annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan. The new processor, cod...
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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
Apr 22, 2010
The Dell Aero, the sort-of good-looking Dell Android phone headed to AT&T, just got some new information that's just not worth getting excited about. The Aero is said to use a middling 624 M...
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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
Feb 10, 2010
If you're a person who demands the best out of your smartphone, we think we just found your next device: the HTC Scorpion. AndroidSPIN has received a leaked build file that details this dev...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 27, 2010
Thanks to the guys at Alldroid, the Motorola Droid just got its processor overlocked and can now run at speeds as high as 1.1GHz. The ARM Cortex A8 Processor in the Droid typically runs at 550MHz so t...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 16, 2009
The biggest selling point of the Acer Liquid Android Phone will likely be its 1GHz Snapdragon Processor that’s going to run laps around current Android phones. It’s easy to forget that th...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 14, 2009
These Android devices just keep coming, don't they? After copping out with a dual-booting Android Netbook, it looks like Acer is ready to support Android in a big way. Acer just announ...
