ROCCAT will be showing its new product developments in gaming peripherals and software at CES in Las Vegas on January 8 - 11, 2013. Some of the ROCCAT highlights at this year's show will include the brand's first-ever mechanical ...
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Nvidia introduced its fastest processor for mobile devices, the Tegra 4, and has designed it into its first gaming portable gaming platforms. Previously codenamed “Wayne,” Tegra 4 is based around a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 ...
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ST-Ericsson has announced its fastest LTE smartphone platform, the NovaThor L8580 ModAp has an eQuad application processor running at up to 2.5GHz. The NovaThor L8580 will be available to sample in Q1 2013. It is built on 28nm ...
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We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas. Thursday 10 January CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV ...
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Chinese chip firm Allwinner expected to discuss its quad ARM core A31 SoC at CES. At its heart are four ARM Cortex-7 processors with 256kbyte L1 cache and 1Mbyte L2 cache. On-die alongside these is a eight core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 ...
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Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
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Texas Instruments has partnered with AllGo Embedded Systems to announce a reference design that will allow Android 4.0 tablets to be built for under US$70, the companies announced Wednesday. The Etab reference design is for a basic tablet ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek announced a new quad-core ARM chip made for mid- to high-end Android devices that the company hopes will keep it competitive as rival chip makers also come out with their own quad-core chipsets. The MediaTek MT6589 chip ...
IDG News Service - ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The ...
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Samsung shared more details about its next-generation Exynos 5 Dual dual-core mobile processor, saying it will be twice as fast as comparable Exynos chips used in the company's smartphones and tablets. The chip will also consume 30% less ...
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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
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It’s clear that Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook, didn’t study marketing in school. At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel’s new low-power Atom processor, he described the chip as ...
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Debugging toolkit should ship early next year, companies say Altera and ARM have jointly developed an embedded software development toolkit which will remove debugging barriers for SoC FPGA Devices. Dubbed the ARM Development Studio 5 ...
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Effective interrupt control is achievable in low power microcontrollers,writes Joseph Yiu,embedded technology specialist at ARM Interrupts are a major feature of most embedded microcontrollers and effective real time response to interrupts ...
Computerworld-It's clear that Frank Frankovsky,vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook,didn't study marketing in school.At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel's new low-power Atom processor,he described the chip ...
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