By Killian Bell |
With Samsung’s Galaxy S III becoming this year’s best-selling smartphone, the Korean company will obviously want to follow it up with a fourth. But how does it improve upon a device that is already way ahead of most of its competitors? Well, according to new…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung has allegedly increased the price of the mobile processor that it sells Apple for use in its iOS-based products, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Korea news outlet Chosun Ilbo said Monday that Samsung asked for a 20% increase in the price Apple typically…
By Killian Bell |
Google Chrome for Windows has received a new update this week, which adds a number of helpful features that promise longer battery life and “easier website permissions” for your PC. It’s a must-have for notebook users in particular, who should find that their machine now…
By Todd Haselton |
Quad-core processors from Qualcomm, Samsung and NVIDIA are all the rage these days in tablets and smartphones, but Intel wants to shake up the market by adding, well, just a few more cores. 48 cores, in fact. Typically, cores are used to divide a complicated…
By Todd Haselton |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) will be the sole provider of the 20nm processor for Apple’s upcoming quad-core chips, Citigroup Global Markets told CENS recently. The company has slowly been stealing Samsung’s share of supplies to Apple and reportedly has a 1-2 year contract with the…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung’s current Exynos 4 Quad processor powers its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone abroad, but the company on Friday officially began to detail its new Exynos 5 Dual processor, and it’s loaded with goodies. The chip, as its name implies, includes a ARM Cortex A15-based dual-core…
By Killian Bell |
We’re all wondering what Google’s upcoming Nexus 7 tablet will bring to the market this year, but thanks to a leaked training document obtained by Gizmodo Australia, there’s no need to wonder any more. In addition to an image of the device, which you can…
By Killian Bell |
Just five months after announcing the Meizu MX, Meizu has unveiled the MX Quad-core, a super speedy smartphone packing Samsung’s quad-core Exynos A9 processor. While the Chinese company hasn’t yet disclosed the chip’s clock speed, it does promise that it provides a 60% increase in…
By Joey Davidson |
The newest set of next-generation Xbox rumors has the system sporting an exceptionally strong and cutting edge processor. The story comes from Xbox World as sources holding brand new dev kits say that the future hardware from Microsoft will come with 16-Core IBM Power PC CPUs.…
By Brandon Russell |
Noah K. tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! In this episode: Next-gen PlayStation! Next-gen Intel CPUs! First-gen Apple HDTV! Sony Readying Playstation 4 (aka. Playstation Orbis) for X-Mas 2013? Intel’s Ivy Bridge Chips Set for Late April Launch Sharp + Foxconn = The…
By John Fick |
Could we be looking at a new PlayStation in time for the 2013 holiday season? Will Sony dump the numbering system for its consoles? It sure looks that way. Sources tell Kotaku that the successor to Sony’s PlayStation 3 gaming console is to be named the PlayStation…
By Killian Bell |
Apple’s third-generation Apple TV is almost identical to its predecessor — both inside and out — but it’s now capable of playing full, high-definition video in 1080p. So what does it have that the second-generation set-top box doesn’t? Well, according to a teardown performed by…
By Noah Kravitz |
Intel’s next generation of mobile chips has been delayed by eight to ten weeks, according to the Financial Times. Sean Maloney, executive vice-president of Intel and chairman of Intel China, told FT that Ultrabooks (like the Dell XPS 13) and other devices equipped with the Ivy…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung took the stage during the International Solid State Circuit Conference where it demoed its 32nm-based Exynos mobile processor. The South Korea-based company said the chip is capable of running at speeds up to 1.5GHz. The processor is equipped with a Samsung graphics engine and…
By Maximum PC |
How do you make the most powerful supercomputer in the world even faster? It’s simple, really. Just keep adding components! When Japan’s K supercomputer assumed the top slot back in June, it did so thanks to a team of 68,544 CPUs working in tandem to…
By Brandon Russell |
You’re killing us, Asus. First the Kal-El equipped Transformer Prime made an appearance at the AllThingsD AsiaD conference. Then it was shown off in the wild wearing its Apple-like keyboard dock. Oh, and just yesterday there was that revealing Eee Pad Strategy slide giving away…
By Killian Bell |
There’s no denying that the iPad 2 is incredibly quick. I’ve been using the device since its release back in March, and I’m yet to do anything on it that is even remotely struggling for that dual-core A5 processor. It seems someone in Cupertino, however,…
By Killian Bell |
Think your Android tablet’s too slow to handle your Angry Birds addiction? Good news! NVIDIA has promised that its quad-core processors will be hitting Android tablets near you by the end of 2011, according to the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. According to Huang, the guys…
