by Robert Triggs, 1 week ago

I love the idea behind the big.LITTLE architecture; powerful cores for peak processing backup up by less power hungry CPUs for the more simple day to day tasks, it makes perfect sense. But the big.LITTLE…

by David Gonzales, 1 week ago

Hot on the heels of the brand new Acer Iconia A1, which was just announced a few days ago, comes the second-generation Acer Iconia B1 with an updated design, improved specs, and optional 3G connectivity….

by David Gonzales, 2 weeks ago

It looks like the world is just about to get another dose of MediaTek‘s low-cost offerings, in the form of a new dual-core chip that’s meant for use in entry-level smartphones to be released in…

by Andrew Roach, 3 weeks ago

Chinese manufacturers don’t always have an easy time breaking into the American market. Even as OEMs in China would usually produce for the bigger brands, and even as the likes of ZTE and Huawei are…

by Ankit Banerjee, 1 month ago

Anyone and everyone would love to get their hands on the latest series of flagship smartphones on offer from Sony (Xperia Z and ZL), HT C (One), and Samsung (Galaxy S4). The three devices boast…

by Andrew Grush, 1 month ago

No matter how hard a company tries to keep something under wraps, it never quite works out that way. With that in mind, Evleaks has now leaked a press shot of the as-of-yet unconfirmed Huawei Ascend…

by Robert Triggs, 2 months ago

There’s a hidden contest for manufacturing contracts when it comes to processor technologies that we seldom hear about. According to industry sources, MediaTek has secured a deal with Globalfoundries for 28nm foundry services, beating out…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 2 months ago

The past several years have been really hard on most major PC manufacturers, but not on Lenovo. The China-based corporation has more than thrived under pressure, boosting its profits when almost everyone else was bleeding…

by Robert Triggs, 2 months ago

There was an awful lot going on at MWC this year, when it comes to chipset technology. Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and a lot of the other big players all had something to show off. So,…

by Robert Triggs, 2 months ago

When asked about their development of octo-core processors at MWC both Qualcomm and MediaTek seemed to shrug off the issue, simply stating that they don’t see any real consumer demand for an eight core behemoth….

by Stefan Constantinescu, 3 months ago

Forget about America and forget about Europe, the world’s biggest smartphone market is China. They have a population of over 1.3 billion people, and while most are still struggling to get by, there’s a rapidly…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 4 months ago

Last month we told you about MediaTek’s new quad core chip, the MT6589. Unlike NVIDIA’s Tegra 4, which has four ARM Cortex A9 cores, or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro, which has four Qualcomm Krait cores,…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 5 months ago

Earlier this month we published an article that said quad core smartphones using MediaTek’s newest chip are going to flood the market in Q1 2013. When we wrote that article, said chip wasn’t announced. Today…

by David Gonzales, 5 months ago

Do you want to know what it feels like to be the biggest revenue gainer out of all the top semiconductor firms in 2012? And not only that, but also jump a full three levels…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 5 months ago

NVIDIA, with the Tegra 3, was the first company to ship a quad core chip that ended up in a smartphone; the HTC One X to be specific. Just a few weeks later, Samsung shipped…