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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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced Wednesday that it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. ...
The iPhone 5 smartphone has the A6 CPU, which industry experts say is the first in a line of many upcoming Apple custom processors that will better balance performance with battery life in iPhones and iPads. The custom-designed A6 core is ...
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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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Apple yesterday unveiled the iPhone 5, the nameplate everyone wanted last year before they settled, sometimes only after a lot of griping, for the iPhone 4S. The rumor mill nailed most of the feature set -- one analyst said Apple could ...
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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ARM on Tuesday introduced its first 64-bit Cortex-A50 series processor designs as the company tries to preserve its dominance in smartphones and tablets while catching up with Intel in servers. The new ARM processors, Cortex-A57 and ...
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Samsung’s recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM’s first ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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Google on Monday announced a new 10-inch Nexus tablet and 4.7-inch Nexus smartphone with the latest Android 4.2 operating system, code-named Jelly Bean. Google was expected to showcase the devices in New York City, but cancelled a planned ...
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The two companies partner to benefit mutual customers across ARM partner ecosystem Electronic design automation (EDA) software and services provide Synopsys had signed a multi year agreement with semiconductor firm ARM to licenses a range ...
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The advanced system intellectual property addresses demand for energy-efficient 'many-core' applications for the enterprise market ARM has introduced its new advanced system intellectual property (IP), CoreLink CCN-504 cache coherent ...
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The new hard macro delivers a balance of performance and power Microprocessor developer ARM has released its Cortex-A15 MP4, a quad-core 28nm processor which allows manufacturers to use them in notebooks and enterprise devices without ...
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Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor. The low-power laptop has an 11.6-inch screen,and is for those who do most of their computing on the web,Acer said ...
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Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
Tags: Samsung, server chips, Cortex-A57 processors, Cortex-A53 processors