Oct 15
Amazon is apparently in “advanced negotiations” with Texas Instruments, in an attempt to buy its smartphone and tablet oriented OMAP chip division. More »
Oct 09
Any message transmitted from one phone to another—whether it’s a cute video of your kid or a celebrity cock shot—appears almost instantly on the recipient’s screen. Amazing! Now, how did it actually get there? More »
Oct 09
AMD has officially announced its new tablet-specific Z-60 processor, known as Hondo, and it promises rather a lot. In fact, the chip manufacturer claims it will allow you to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on your Windows 8 tablet, at 30 fps on a 1024 x 768 display. Sounds zippy. More »
Oct 01
Infrared Technology Battles Back From the Dead With High Speed Wireless Transfers [Research]
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The same infrared technology that allowed the world to change the channel without getting off the couch could vastly speed up wireless data transfers between devices. Somewhere deep in the halls of the Fraunhofer Institute infrared technology has been on life support all these years, and could soon fight its way back into the limelight with transfer speeds six times as fast as USB 2.0. More »
Sep 26
These Brand New AMD A-Series Processors Could Power Your Next Desktop [Guts]
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AMD just announced the processor that could power your next desktop: the second generation A-Series processor. It has more cores for more power, integrated graphics with the AMD Radeon HD 7000 for graphics and puts a high priority on power efficiency. More »
Sep 26
Apple’s iPhone 5 A6 Processor Seems to Dynamically Overclock Itself [Video]
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The iPhone 5’s processor might be faster than we thought. According to TLDToday, the A6 is clocking in at 1.3GHz after an update to the Geekbench benchmarking app, which is supposed to do a better job of detecting what’s actually going on with the A6. More »
Sep 26
Why You’ll Be Seeing TI’s OMAP Chipset in More Cars and Fewer Smartphones [Guts]
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Texas Instrument’s OMAP4 mobile chipset is quite good. In fact, you’ll be seeing it in the Kindle Fire HD. But despite the technical proficiency of that piece of silicon, the company has bigger plans for its technology than just tablets and smartphones: it wants to be in cars. More »
Sep 25
It’s not a surprise. The A5 chip—the brain of the iPhone 4S—is also made by Samsung. But in the current polarized climate of the Apple-Samsung Wars, it’s worth remembering that the show goes on and the new iPhone 5’s brain is made by Samsung too. More »
Sep 24
iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S III: Smartphone Display Technology Shoot-Out [Iphone 5]
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The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality of the visual experience for everything on a smartphone or tablet—including apps, web content, photos, videos, and its camera. The retina displays on the iPhone 4 and the new iPad were significant advancements—not just in sharpness but in picture quality and color accuracy, which is what provides the display’s real wow factor. More »
Sep 24
Lithium-ion batteries are the most common technology powering modern devices. But lithium itself is a rare metal that’s hard to come by, and countries that have to import it are developing alternatives. In Japan, researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have discovered a way to make a sodium-ion battery that can be made with plain old sugar. More »
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