Medfield powers Android on Intel for Motorola – MWC
Much ado in the blog-based Techoverse about Intel Android phones being launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. PocketNow.com claims to have got some images and details for a...
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Orange launches Atom-based phone
Finally, an Intel Atom in a mobile from a major phone company, as Orange launches the ‘San Diego’, writes Steve Bush. Inside the phone, codenamed Santa Clara (perhaps there was a clue there) is a Z2460...
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Computex: Asus tries x86 in a tablet
Like Samsung in the smartphone space, Asus keeps its options well and truly open when it comes to processors and platforms for laptops and tablets… Step forward an Intel-based tablet computer from the...
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Microsoft hedges bets with tablet processor
It looks like Microsoft’s Surface tablet, announced yesterday, will come in both ARM and Intel versions, writes Steve Bush. The lighter (676g) thinner (9.3mm) one running Windows RT on an ARM...
View ArticleAMD opens five-year window for embedded x86 processors
AMD’s latest embedded G-Series processor is an x86 based device with a graphics accelerator and with power consumption of 2.3W on average or 4.5 watts thermal design power (TDP), writes Richard Wilson....
View ArticlePC market will shrink for the first time in a decade
David Manners writes: The PC market will shrink in 2012 for the first time in over a decade, says IHS. The total PC market in 2012 is expected to contract by 1.2% to 348.7m units, down from 352.8m in...
View ArticleIntel, AMD see end of desktop PC
The PC market was once the engine room of the global semiconductor market, writes Richard Wilson. But no longer. The two largest microprocessor suppliers to the PC market, Intel and AMD, see sales...
View ArticleAndroid to overtake Windows within four years – research
One to note for posterity, perhaps – a story of more symbolic than practical significance… According to Gartner, Android will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft Windows within four years,...
View ArticleImagination, ARM buy MIPS
Just a quick ‘flag in the sand’ story – one to note for posterity… Imagination Technologies has agreed to acquire the operating business of microprocessor firm MIPS Technologies, writes Richard Wilson....
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Mips adds security and SIMD
Mips Technologies had added virtualisation and 128bit SIMD instructions to its 32 and 64bit architectures, taking them to Release 5, writes Steve Bush. “SIMD is popular for multi-media,” MIPS product...
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