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Mobile

Intel’s Silvermont CPUs Helard A Serious Push Into Mobile

Intel’s Atom cores have caught a lot of guff, mainly thanks to bad memories of the netbook days. But now the new Silvermont CPU architecture is low-powered and packs a performance punch, positioning Intel to make a big push into mobile.

15 February 2013

Computing

Build The Best Bang For The Buck PC

We all know that, generally speaking, buying the newest top-end part gets you the most performance. But, in most cases, the premium you pay for that part covers a whole lot of other stuff as well that has no bearing on frame rates or video encoding times.

16 November 2012

Computing

The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen

Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK!

14 November 2012

Computing

Cray’s Titan Supercomputer Is The Fastest In The World

Cray’s Titan supercomputer has snatched the title of world’s fastest from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sequoia — and it’s cray fast, as you might expect.

31 October 2012

Mobile

64-Bit Smartphone CPUs In 2014

The Cortex A53 and A57 are ARM’s latest and greatest mobile chipset designs, another important leap in its quest to get its mobile chipsets closer in performance to desktop CPU. Designed for single-core or multi-core configurations, the products made from these designs will be the first mobile chipsets to support 64-bit processing.

27 September 2012

Computing

These Brand New AMD A-Series Processors Could Power Your Next Desktop

AMD just announced the processor that could power your next desktop: the second generation A-Series processor. It has more cores for more power, integrated graphics with the AMD Radeon HD 7000 for graphics and puts a high priority on power efficiency.

18 September 2012

Mobile

iPhone 5 Is More Powerful Than The Fastest PowerBook Ever Made

We’ve come a long way, guys. The best possible laptop you could buy from Apple in 2005 scored around 1000 on Geekbench, a popular performance-testing program. The A6 chip in the newest iPhone 5 demolishes that number by a fair margin.

13 September 2012

Mobile

Apple’s New A6 Chip Is Smaller And Mightier

Apple has announced that the iPhone 5 will come with a whole new chip. It’s called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year’s iPad’s A5X chip.

3 August 2012

Mobile

Samsung’s New Superfast Chips Could Fuel Your Future iPhone

Samsung has just announced some super-fast new chips that could one day power an iPhone. The company claims the Pro Class 1500 line is the Usain Bolt of flash memory cards — four times speedier than predecessors and possibly the fastest chips around.

2 August 2012

Mobile

The Man Behind The iPhone And iPad CPU Leaves Apple For AMD

Apple’s homegrown processors in its iOS devices are pretty awesome and regularly outperform other mobile chipsets. Jim Keller, one of the men responsible for that feat, is leaving the company. Where is he going? AMD. Ouch.

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