processor

Australia Won’t Get The Octa-Core Samsung Galaxy S4

Bad news, speed demons: Australia isn’t getting the octa-core processor in the local version of the Galaxy S4. We’ll be saddled with the quad-core version instead.


Motorola’s 2GHz Intel Monster Phone Won’t Come To Australia

Set faces to disappointed. Motorola’s new RAZRi — the insane Intel-powered smartphone with a processor that clocks in at 2Ghz — will not be coming to Australia. Ever. Here’s why.


Intel: Windows 8 On ARM Is An Uphill Fight

Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult.


New iPad’s 1GB RAM, 1GHz CPU Likely Confirmed

Though it was almost certainly going to be the case, a leaked benchmark has confirmed what we expected: the new iPad comes with 1GB of RAM, but the clock speed of its CPU stays at 1GHz.


IBM’s Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits A Second

IBM Researchers have built an optical chip that can transfer more data per second than pretty much anything else on the planet.


Intel Confirms That Ivy Bridge Is Definitely Delayed

There have been suggestions floating around that Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors would arrive later than anticipated on the market. Now, those rumours have been confirmed as true by a senior Intel employee, so we won’t see the processors in April as previously expected.


ARM’s Mali-T658 Offers Multi-Core Smartphone GPU Power

Sure, today’s tablets and smartphones are pretty darned powerful beasts. In just a few short years, we’ve gone from devices that could barely play Snake well to, well, Infinity Blade 2. But the next generation of ARM GPUs? They might make Infinity Blade 2 look like Pong.


What Lurks Under Intel’s Ivy Bridge?

Not a troll, that’s for sure. Well, maybe a super-fast 22nm high troll. Intel’s announced Ivy Bridge processors look like they’ll be extremely neat, even though the chip manufacturer is on the ‘tick’ side of its schedule, more concerned with manufacturing processes than massive architectural changes.


Intel Will Thin Out, Shrink In Size And Defy Moore’s Law

Intel officially let loose with a processor roadmap that’s filled with all sorts of goodies for hardware-loving geeks.


Intel’s 2nd-Gen Core Processors: Mega-Media Machines

Intel’s follow-up to last year’s Core processors hasn’t exactly been a closely guarded secret. But even though the specs leaked months ago, what’s clear now about Sandy Bridge is that Intel’s taking direct aim at content.