Hasta La Gadget!

Right now, Intel has every right to lay contentedly atop the laurels of its biggest quarterly profit ever, but that’s not what the company is doing at all. Instead of protracting the life of its current-gen processors unduly, Intel is planning to accelerate the roadmap for its next generation of multicore parts, codenamed Sandy Bridge. The difference between the Nehalem-based stuff we have today and the upcoming chip is that the Sandy Bridge architecture takes everything down to 32nm — including the graphics processor and memory controller which are built at 45nm at present — while keeping it all within the same enclosure. Enthusiastic feedback from customers who were given tasters of the Sandy stuff has been to blame for this haste on Intel’s part, and we’re told that with additional investment in 32nm infrastructure, the chip giant plans to make deliveries late this year. That in turn could potentially result in some eager vendor pushing a Sandy Bridge laptop or desktop out before 2010 is through — which would be all kinds of nice.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs to arrive ahead of schedule, could be with us this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer’s been busy doing a presentation over in Beijing today, and the highlight of the show was the first sighting of the company’s 7-inch Android tablet. It’s described by Shufflegazine as “pretty fast with sensitive touch,” though CEO Gianfranco Lanci was apparently reluctant to disclose any of the specs. He told the gathered press to expect it in the fourth quarter of this year, which sounds all kinds of 2000-and-late, but we have to consider the fact that only a couple of months ago Acer was telling us it wasn’t going to enter the tablet realm at all. What’s interesting is that Lanci described network operators as an “obvious” sales channel, suggesting the slate has an integrated 3G module, while it also looks like the silvery bottom of the device is occupied by a QWERTY keyboard not unlike that found on Amazon’s Kindle. Interesting times lie ahead, that’s for sure.

[Thanks, Imran]

Acer CEO teases 7-inch Android tablet, promises it for Q4 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 02:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Late last month, rumors began to swirl that Nokia‘s fearless leader may be closer than ever to grabbing hold of his golden parachute, and with the frustrations surrounding the company’s inability to keep pace with other smartphone producers, it’s certainly a believable whisper. Today, those sharks are still looking for answers, and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo attempted to give some during today’s address to shareholders. One choice quote came right off the top, with OPK stating the following:

“By combining services with devices, Nokia is in a stronger position to grow and create more value for our shareholders. We still have plenty of work to do, but we have built a solid foundation. We believe in our strategy.”

He then went on to list some of the many, many fruitful things that the company has delivered over the past few months (sadly not elaborating on the business shift), noting that Ovi Mail now has eight million registered users, Life Tools would be headed to China “soon,” and that his company shipped some 432 million devices globally last year — more than its top three rivals combined. Of course, it’s not the sum that investors are worried about, it’s the apparent inability to seriously chase the Apples, HTCs, LGs and Samsungs of the world in the smartphone space. To that end, Kallasvuo asserted that in 2010, the company will “introduce a new generation of devices that is expected to help close the gap with the competition in high-end smartphones,” and he continued by claiming that Nokia’s approach “has been to concentrate on fewer, competitive products that bring the features of Symbian-based smartphones to more and more people around the world.” The head-honcho certainly understands the rough position his outfit is in, confessing that Nokia is “working hard to reclaim leadership in high-end smartphones and mobile computers,” and also informing the world that the company’s next “mobile computer” will be humming along on MeeGo. Best of luck out there, OPK — it’s certainly going to take more than a snazzy Symbian^3 marketing campaign to regain the attention of these Android and iPhone OS loyalists.

Update: The full speech has now been posted [PDF], and unfortunately, there really aren’t any juicy tidbits to extract. Typical corporate speak from top to bottom.

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Nokia ‘combining services with devices,’ says the board approves originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a communication with Phone Scoop, Adobe has tidied up the meaning of its CEO’s words from a recent interview with Fox Business. In it, Shantanu Narayen repeatedly tells us to expect new Android, WebOS and BlackBerry devices with integrated Flash compatibility during the second half of 2010, but Adobe has now explained that he didn’t mean that the Flash delivery schedule will be delayed, not at all. You see, Narayen was talking about hardware coming out in the second half, but Flash 10.1 itself will still be arriving “to first mobile platforms including Android … before the end of the first half of 2010.” Interesting that only Android is mentioned explicitly, but at least this provides some reassurance to any fretting Flash fans out there.

Adobe says no delays to Flash 10.1, CEO was just talking hardware originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ’70 to 80 percent’ of sales originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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