by Nate Swanner, 2 months ago

We love our mobile devices, and we love our computers. Tablets are fun, and smartphones are just about necessary to our lives, now. The computer just does so much we can’t really get away from,…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 2 months ago

Lenovo is reportedly creating its own chip design division, that will focus on creating systems on a chip for mobile devices. One on of the reasons behind the move is the strained relationship with Samsung….

by Bogdan Petrovan, 3 months ago

Nvidia is talking up its upcoming mobile chipsets codenamed Logan and Parker, even though Tegra 4 hasn’t even shipped yet. In his keynote today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed some…

by Robert Triggs, 3 months ago

Earlier this morning Samsung announced that its new top of the line processor, the Exynos 5 Octa, is scheduled to begin mass production in the second quarter of this year. Considering that carriers are reportedly…

by Andrew Grush, 3 months ago

It seems that Nvidia isn’t the only one announcing a new chipset today. Marvell has now officially unveiled the PXA1088, a quad-core mobile chipset for lower-end tablets and smartphones. The new ARM Cortex-A7 SoC not…

by Bams Sadewo, 5 months ago

In the last few days, we’ve seen several major SoC makers introduced their latest and greatest offerings. From Nvidia’s Tegra 4 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 and 800, to Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa and ST Ericsson’s…

by Shea Harris, 5 months ago

Hot off the heels of three other new mobile processor announcements at CES 2013 from NVidia, Qualcomm, and Samsung, ST-Ericsson has announced its own new processor. ST-Ericsson claims that the quad-core NovaThor L8580 will be…

by Chris Smith, 5 months ago

The second Samsung keynote is currently underway in Las Vegas and the company already has a very interesting product to announce – one we suspected was coming – the Exynos 5 Octa high-performance power-efficient big.LITTLE…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 5 months ago

The new Tegra 4 System on a Chip was just unveiled in Las Vegas, and we have the full rundown here. Along with the new SoC, Nvidia’s boss Jen-Hsun Huang also touted the Icera i500…

by Chris Smith, 7 months ago

Current Galaxy S4 rumors say that Samsung will launch the next flagship phone at some point in early-to-mid 2013 and that the device will pack a new Exynos 5450 quad-core CPU (Cortex-A15) processor. But that’s…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 7 months ago

What do we have here? Conflicting reports from the Korean press? If only it would be the first time. On Monday, we’ve told you that Samsung has reportedly increased the price of the processors it…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 7 months ago

Android’s somewhat unexpected and very impressive expansion and growth over the last couple of years has not only driven innovation forward, but also competition in pretty much every aspect of the word and market niche….

by Adrian Diaconescu, 7 months ago

If anyone was to tell you three or four years ago that today’s high-end mobile devices would reach the point where quad-core processors inside would become standard, what would you have said? It seemed crazy,…

by Andrew Grush, 8 months ago

“System on a chip” designs are important when it comes to tablets and smartphones. They have low power consumption and take up less room on a device. They also aren’t substantially slower than alternative solutions….

by J. Angelo Racoma, 9 months ago

The press and technology blogs made a deal out of the news that Intel’s Clover Trail platform will only support Windows 8, which rules out Linux and possibly Android. We got an update that Clover…