STMicroelectronics hopes to make the wimpy LED flash on your smartphone as bright as the xenon flash in your camera with a new chip that packs a supercapacitor for quick bursts of power. More »
Overclocking processors used to be extremely nerdy, but if anything it’s becoming more common these days. For those intent on squeezing performance from their chip, Intel’s new CPU insurance means getting it wrong needn’t be that expensive. More »
The Medfield codename invoked strange Cloverfield associations for me. Would Intel’s first serious mobile chip be a monster that destroys absolutely everything in its path? Well, the dust has cleared, and we have the Atom Z2460. It’s not going to crush everything else, but it looks damn decent. More »
When you shrink wires down to nanometres in diameter, their resistivity normally grows exponentially — a trade-off which many have predicted will be Moore’s Law’s undoing soon. But a new, single-atom thick wire could change that. More »
Silicon is great. Our computers wouldn’t work without it. But it’s nearing the limits of what it can achieve — which is where molybdenite, the new kid on the chip, can take over to provide smaller, more efficient processors. More »
Want Ice Cream Sandwich on your Intel or AMD mobile device? Delivering on the promise made to developers earlier this year, the x86 version of Google’s latest mobile OS is now available for download, but there are some caveats to the early release. More »
If you have an affinity for Android Tablets, you’ll certainly fawn over the next generation Exynos 5250 chipset, complete with a 2GHz, dual-core ARM Cortex A15 CPU and a GPU capable of powering a 3D display at 2560×1600. More »
Yes. 50 cores. Five zero. All on a single, tiny chip. It’s real. Intel beamed over their 50-core “Knights Ferry” processor yesterday at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times reports. And they have good reason. More »
Chip company ARM has announced its latest processor evolution, in the form of its Mali-T658 GPU. ARM says this’ll provide “desktop-class performance” with “10 times” the power of the 400 series found in the Galaxy S II. More »
Gentlemen, are you shooting blanks or are you ready to continue your family line another generation? Before, answering that question required a trip to the doctors. Today, a Dutch researcher says the test could eventually be, ahem, in your hands. More »
