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

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3:00PM November 10, 2011 | Alex Kidman

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. More »


Computing

What Lurks Under Intel’s Ivy Bridge?

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9:00AM September 19, 2011 | Alex Kidman

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. More »


Computing

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

3:44PM May 31, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

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


Computing

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

4:00PM January 3, 2011 | Brian Barrett

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. More »


Mobile

Samsung Galaxy S Has 3x Faster GPU Than Snapdragon

1:24AM March 27, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

AndroidAndMe has rewatched the Samsung Galaxy S keynote from earlier in the week (barrel of laughs ’round their way!) and realised that the 1GHz chip they mentioned – which can “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second” actually works out to three times faster than the Snapdragon processor. More »


Samsung’s 1GHz Chip May Come To Next Gen iPhone And Pre

11:40AM July 28, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Samsung and Intrinsity have announced one of the fastest low-power chip designs to date and are hinting that we may soon see iPhones and Pres running at a brisk 1GHz. More »


Science

First Quantum Processor Performs Simple Tasks, Illustrates The Concept

5:40AM June 30, 2009 | Jason Chen

Yale researchers just made the first, albeit simple, quantum processor. The processor is made of two artificial atoms (each made of a billion aluminium atoms) that act like single atoms that can occupy two distinct states. More »