Chip giant Intel is reportedly posed to get Apple’s attention with its future chips. TSMC’s recent demonstration of a 3.1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 dual core chip is certainly more impressive than the empty statements of Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini : “Our job is to ensure our silicon is so compelling, in terms off...
NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers. The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy...
Nvidia seems pretty confident that the high energy efficiency of the ARM architecture makes it a much better alternative for HPC computing than x86 and therefore is currently working on bringing this arch in the high-performance computing and server markets. In an interview with EETimes, Sumit Gupta, Director for High Performance Computing Products at...
Nvidia has high hopes for its recently launched Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip (SoC) device as in 2012 it plans to ship no less than 25 million such chips, which could make it more popular than the previous iteration of Tegra. These SoC are supposed to go into smartphones, tablet PCs and automobiles, according to industry...
Despite all the hype that has surrounded Windows 8 and ARM lately, the first notebooks and tablets running Microsoft’s upcoming operating system to be powered by system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices using ARM’s processing cores aren’t expected to come out until mid-2013. The platform itself is supposed to be announced at the end of 2012, but...
HP is currently testing servers based on an ARM architecture, which is basically the same stuff that runs applications on your phones and tablets. The idea is that these little chips use much less power than traditional processors like those of Intel and AMD. Because they use less power, they also require less cooling...
Chip and consumer electronics maker Samsung will reportedly ramp up production of the quad-core A6 processor designed by Apple for its next-generation mobile devices, according to information received by the Korea Times publication from an un-named Apple component suppliers. According to the source, Samsung has won this contract in front of TSMC as the...
In the upcoming year, Intel will intensify its assault on the tablet and smartphone market by releasing two Atom system-on-a-chip devices built using the 32nm fabrication technology, not just one as previously thought. The first one of these chips is known by the code name of Medfield and is the company’s first Atom SoC...
Nvidia has high hopes for its Kal-El+ system-on-a-chip that is supposed to improve on the specs of the first iteration of Kal-El, since it expects the SoCs to be used not only in tablet computers, but also in entry-level notebooks. This way, Nvidia hopes that it will be able to capitalize on the launch...
