Chipmaker LSI is taking ARM-based processors to new frontiers with its upcoming AXM5500 family, which will be used in mobile base stations of all sizes. From today's smartphones, tablets and thin clients to tomorrow's servers, ARM-based ...
Tags: LSI, mobile networks, processors
Nvidia hopes to power sub-$200 smartphones and tablets under $300 with its latest Tegra 4i processor, which is also the company's first chip with an integrated LTE modem. The quad-core Tegra 4i will be used by device makers in LTE-capable ...
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Features 60 NVIDIA GPU cores and a quad-core CPU based on ARM Cortex-A9 r4 CPU with 2.3GHz frequency NVIDIA has released Tegra 4i, its fully integrated 4G LTE mobile processor which claims to offer faster processing. The processor has ...
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What do we mean by “the internet of things” and why is it becoming so important to software design, writes Frank Schirrmeister of Cadence Design Systems As we approach the Embedded World exhibition and conference in Nuremberg ...
LSI’s latest communications processor for 4G LTE basestations has up to 16 ARM Cortex-A15 cores. Designed the Axxia 5500, the 28nm chip’s networking accelerator supports 50Gbit/s packet processing, 20Gbit/s security processing ...
Tags: MWC, LTE, Arm Cores, Consumer Electronics
The US scientist, Marlene R. Cohen PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh has won the 2012 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. Dr ...
ARM’s close collaboration with the foundries on next generation processes is paying off. Globalfoundries says that an ARM chip made on its 14nm finfet policy delivers twice the power efficiency of its ‘super low power’ ...
Tags: ARM, ARM chip, dual Cortex ARM A9 cores
BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world started shipments today on the new BLU Studio 5.3 II and BLU Tank 4.5. Each device featuring a Dual Core 1GHz Cortex -A9 processor, with PowerVR SGX Series 5 ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
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Based on the ARM Cortex A9 and A15 processors Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the TPS65090, the single-chip, front-end power management unit (PMU) chip which it is claimed can extend the battery life of tablets and other portable ...
Tags: ARM Cortex A9, Texas Instruments, TPS65090
Atmel says it is shipping production quantities of the its SAMA5D3 series microprocessor, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A5 core with an on-chip floating point unit. The SAMA5D3 microprocessors are fabbed on a 65nm process technology ...
RS Components has signed a global franchise deal with microcontroller supplier, Energy Micro. As a result RS Components will stock Energy Micro's range of ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers, development kits, starter kits and tools in ...
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After a number of rumours last week surrounding Microsoft's and Sony's chosen hardware for their next-generation game consoles, a new report from Eurogamer's Digital Foundry states that both machines will contain AMD Jaguar processors. ...
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With the latest generation of high-end smartphones sporting power-hungry 5-inch screens, a growing number of phone vendors are emphasizing bigger batteries rather than thinner devices. After HTC's introduction of a 5-inch, full-HD screen ...
Tags: smartphone, screen, phone market
Small computer pioneer Via Technologies has announced a 12x12.5x3cm ARM Cortex-A8-based machine. ARMTiGO A800 is "the world’s smallest ARM system for embedded applications, including hotel automation, digital signage and, ...