August 18, 2010 9:04 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Global PC microprocessor shipments saw a healthy rise in the second quarter, though the outlook is cautious for the third quarter, IDC said.
Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the second calendar quarter of 2010 increased 3.6 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, [...]
August 15, 2010 10:33 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Silicon start-up Smooth-Stone has received $48 million from a syndicate of investors including ARM, Texas Instruments, and Highland Capital Ventures.
Smooth-Stone’s goal is to bring the virtues of low-power cell phone technology to servers and, as a result, bring down the staggering power consumption [...]
August 13, 2010 4:26 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Elpida supplies the 512MB DRAM memory module, twice that of the original Droid. That Qualcomm chip is the CDMA processor.
(Credit:
iFixit)
Under the hood, the Motorola-Verizon Droid 2 is really a hopped-up version of the original Droid.
While practically a clone of the original Droid on [...]
August 12, 2010 9:54 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Nvidia’s chief executive officer is emphatic that his company has a strategy for building processors beyond its mainstay graphics chips.
During an interview with CNET, Jen-Hsun Huang addressed a longstanding issue with the company’s chips that has become a financial bruden, as well as [...]
August 10, 2010 7:38 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Inside, the Droid 2 has some striking similarities to the Droid X–which isn’t a bad thing.
Motorola’s Droid 2 packs Texas Instruments’ silicon that's the spitting image of the Droid X.
(Credit:
Motorola)
Motorola’s Droid 2 will be in stores Thursday for $199.99 with a two-year contract, [...]
August 8, 2010 10:25 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The media pad market is brand new. And it’s not going to be stuck at a 9.7-inch diagonal.
Does the iPod come in one size? Or the MacBook? No, and neither will the iPad.
So, no one should be surprised by rumors
about Apple bringing out [...]
August 4, 2010 11:02 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel plans to offer a broad selection of silicon technologies for smartphones, as it seeks to grab a part of German chipmaker Infineon.
Can Intel build silicon to rival–or surpass–future iPhones? That's the plan.
Intel is on a mission: the world’s largest chipmaker is virtually [...]
July 23, 2010 12:41 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Microsoft has updated its agreement with chip design firm ARM, making the software giant capable of designing its own chips–in theory, at least.
Microsoft now has an architecture license for ARM technology. This means better Windows Phone technology in the future.
(Credit:
Microsoft)
The new pact is [...]
July 21, 2010 5:00 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Apple is set to become the world’s second largest semiconductor buyer in 2011, another sign of the shift in the balance of power in the chip world.
Driven by the success of the
iPad and
iPhone, Apple is expected to pass Samsung as the world’s No. [...]
June 21, 2010 11:41 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Toshiba announced Monday that it will ship an Android-based laptop, the first among top-tier laptop makers to sport a dual-core ARM processor.
The 10.1-inch Toshiba AC-100 runs Android 2.1 and packs an Nvidia dual-core processor. Availability in the U.S. is not clear.
(Credit:
Toshiba)
By one [...]