Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips. AMD on multiple occasions has said it had no interest in ...
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Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processors than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving ...
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AMD today launched three new additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-Series Mobile Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) lineup – delivering solutions ideally positioned to address today’s evolving PC market with dramatically increased ...
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Nvidia's Project Shield handheld gaming device, now called simply Shield, will be available for pre-order on May 20 priced at US$349, though it won't ship to customers until the end of June. Shield takes the form of a console game ...
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Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance. The Haswell laptop chip will deliver ...
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Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
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ARM has announced a new licensing model for its dual processor architecture known as big.LITTLE. Cambridge-based ARM said it is making the change to widen use of the technology which combines Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 processor cores. ...
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Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell microarchitecture. Intel's Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and ...
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Have you been laying around your living room thinking that your smart TV isn't smart enough? Samsung's 2013 TV lineup includes an updated smart TV platform that features a redesigned Smart Hub interface, new ways to search and discover ...
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Canon will soon launch what it is calling the world's smallest digital single-lens camera, with a body that weighs just over 370 grams and featuring an 18-megapixel image sensor. The company said its new camera, which is called the "EOS ...
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Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results. Those are already possible with Nvidia's fastest graphics ...
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Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday. The new Tegra processors will be called Logan and Parker, and will succeed the Tegra ...
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ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future. The news comes following STMicroelectronics' decision in December to exit the joint-venture which was started in ...
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Asustek has announced it will soon begin U.S. shipments of an all-in-one PC that can be an Android 4.1 tablet or a fully functional desktop running Windows 8 when attached to a docking station. The Transformer AiO will become available ...
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ARM creates the intellectual property used in the designs of more than 95% of the smartphones in the world, but the company had only a small booth at the edge of Hall 6 at Mobile World Congress here this week. ARM, based in Cambridge, ...
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