"Surface Phone", "Surface Mini": Microsoft has been working in secrecy on a mysterious device for two years, and it has racked up plenty of monikers. Internally codenamed Project Andromeda, it appears to be a portable device with two screens joined with a hinge. Microsoft's Surface has been at the forefront
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The Intel Compute Stick is ready for the masses starting later this April. Intel introduced the Compute Stick several months back at CES with little to zero buzz to go along with it. That’s not to say that there’s nothing to look forward to as far as viability goes. The
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After a short high-end-focused hiatus, the search giant has circled back to doing what it does best, namely pushing PC prices to new and previously inconceivable lows. Microsoft was reported to work on a counter-offensive effort to Google’s then unannounced $149 Chromebook charge less than 24 hours ago, and if
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ARM, the British chip designer company, today unveiled its latest Cortex-A72 architecture that it expects to power the mobile devices of next year. The suite of IP announced today includes the Cortex-A72 CPU architecture and the Mali-T880 GPU, together with the CoreLink CCI-500 interconnects. The ARM Cortex A-72 is claimed
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The first Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 powered smartphones are yet to go on sale and rumors about the next top Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset have already started surfacing. The leaked Qualcomm roadmap comes from leaksfly and includes details on a number of upcoming Snapdragon chipsets like the Snapdragon 820, 815, 620, 625,
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Last summer, Imagination’s CEO Hossein Yassaie said his company was after 25 percent of the mobile processor market within a half- decade. Now, is it any closer to moving away from Powerpoint slides? (more…)
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While Intel believes the future of mobile is in Shenzhen, ARM remains committed to Taiwan. [caption id="attachment_78336" align="aligncenter" width="620"] ARM executives and Taiwan government officials on stage at Computex. (Photo: Mengkuei Hsu/VR-Zone Chinese)[/caption] (more…)
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Why Intel's deal with Rockchip is the first salvo in a long war against ARM. (more…)
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Big increases in performance are expected from ARM’s next-generation cores. (more…)
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Chip designer thinks this goal will be possible “in just a few months.” (more…)
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Project Skybridge puts the ARM into AMD. (more…)
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Job listings show that the retail giant is hiring former Calxeda engineers. (more…)
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Qualcomm's fortunes seem to be dwindling as other vendors like MediaTek start to gain momentum. (more…)
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LG will test out its custom SoC on lower-end handsets before launching it on flagship devices. (more…)
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VR-Zone sits down with MediaTek executives to talk about the state of HSA and upcoming developments. (more…)
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High-end graphics sales buoy Nvidia’s outlook, but Tegra can’t find a defining mobile hardware win. (more…)
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VR-Zone chats with ARM’s VP of Segment Marketing about the state of competition in the mobile ecosystem at a recent launch event in Taipei. [caption id="attachment_71859" align="aligncenter" width="620"] ARM's Ian Ferguson and representatives from chip partners shake hands after a Cortex A-17 launch event in Taipei.[/caption] (more…)
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ARM’s new platform promises big speed increases over the Cortex A-9 and targets devices in the $200 price point range. [caption id="attachment_71777" align="aligncenter" width="620"] MediaTek CTO Kevin Jou, ARM's Ian Ferguson, and a Via Technologies executive at the Cortex A-17 press conference in Taipei[/caption] (more…)
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Server uses X-Gene 64-bit ARM SoC and is currently undergoing testing with customers. (more…)
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The Opteron A1100 is a 64-bit server SoC that features ARM’s v8 cores. (more…)
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