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ARM Cranks Out 3.1GHz Mobile CPU

Gizmodo AU

Currently, high-end mobile CPUs are clocked in the 800-1500MHz range, depending on the manufacturer and core count. The Samsung-built Apple A5X in the iPad 2 and 3, for example, is clocked at 1GHz, while NVIDIA’s Tegra 3, which utilises ARM’s Cortex-A9, is set to 1.3GHz in the ASUS Transformer (1.4GHz in single-core mode).

May 19, 2011
Science

How Power Corrupts

The news abounds with stories of powerful men behaving badly. It’s a depressing yet predictable spectacle – those in positions of power can’t help but help themselves to the help. They scream at underlings and have sex with the secretaries; they assault hotel maids (or at least are accused of such) and sleep with the nanny. The question, of course, is what motivates this awful behavior? Why does power corrupt?

May 18, 2011
Science

A Flaw In One Gene May Smooth Your Brain And Make You Less Smart

A single gene may alter the shape of your brain and determine your intelligence according to new research from the Yale School of Medicine.

September 9, 2010

ARM Cortex-A15 Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone’s heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Samsung’s Hummingbird and the iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making those chips five times more powerful with Cortex-A15.

March 2, 2010

What’s Inside The A4?

There’s a lot of speculation about what’s inside the A4, Apple’s custom and ultra-power-efficient chip that powers the iPad. Nobody knows for sure because, like all their products, it’s a seeeeeecret. Until now.

February 11, 2010
Mobile

HTC Scorpion Foretells Bloody Smartphone Spec Wars

Today – and to us – the HTC Scorpion exists but for a couple of lines of code in a purported leaked Android build. But one day, this 1.5GHz, Android 2.2 handset could be the phone that makes your Nexus One look old.

February 10, 2010

World’s Smallest Solar Sensor Could Run Indefinitely

The smallest solar sensor in the world is 1000 times smaller than standard systems, and under the right conditions, it could last forever.

June 17, 2009

Cortex A9: ARM’s Multi-Core Mobile CPUs

Multicore processors in mobile devices are only a matter of time, and that time appears to be coming closer for ARM, as their Cortex A9 chips will ship in phones in 2010. Arm chips are found in various handsets, including all three generations of the iPhone. [CNET]

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