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ARM's Cortex-A7 promises £60 smartphones

...an age of sub-£60 smartphones in two years' time by consuming less power and providing greater performance than the Cortex-A8 that powers many... Read more

20 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

AMD's Trinity processors take on Intel's Ivy Bridge

...is the follow-on to AMD's Bulldozer technology, and supposedly allows less power leakage than its predecessor. "Combined, the CPU and GPU cores deliver... Read more

15 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Samsung unveils quad-core chip for Galaxy 'S3'

...of the previous generation 45nm 'Exynos 4 Dual' and uses 20 percent less power, meaning that it should provide a longer battery life. "Since all... Read more

26 April, 2012
BlackBerry Bold 9780

BlackBerry Bold 9780

The Bold 9780's key new feature is OS 6, as many of its specifications are unchanged from the 9700 model. We'd have preferred a faster processor, but the ever-excellent mini-keyboard should be a winner for mobile email fans. Read more

11 January, 2011 by Sandra Vogel
Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

...can play in the browser using less processing power, and thus consuming less power. Figure 4: 2D performance varies little among the smartphones tested by... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Christoph H Hochstätter
Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

...plug (and protocol) — they'll just be faster, and they may use less power. At 10Gbps you can copy a Blu-ray disc in less... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mary Branscombe
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...1 while taking around 400 milliwatts — a third of a million times less power Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Where Apple's 'New iPad' technology falls short

More details are emerging about Apple's third iPad as teardown specialists analyse the parts, and it's beginning to look... Read more

21 March, 2012

AMD targets web hosts with Opteron 3200 chips

...60-percent better performance per dollar and consume up to 19-percent less power per core than rival chips from Intel.The processors are 'server... Read more

20 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

ARM unveils low-power chip for the internet of things

...communications protocols can be used by machine-to-machine devices, while drawing less power. "When it comes to running [M2M] communications it starts to be... Read more

15 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
Eye-controlled arcade games move closer

Eye-controlled arcade games move closer

...and 20mm high module is 75-percent smaller and uses 40-percent less power than its predecessor.Photo credit: Jack Clark Read more

6 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

SanDisk upgrade drive takes SSDs to Extremes

...a regular 7,200 RPM hard disk drive, and consumes 30 percent less power. It says it "boots a PC in less than 16 seconds... Read more

15 February, 2012

Tilera targets simple cloud tasks with 36-core processors

...The 40nm processors are based on a RISC architecture and consume much less power than current x86 Intel chips. For example, the 36-core 1... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Intel starts shipping 'Cedar Trail' Atom processors

...20 percent compared to the previous platform." The new chips consume much less power than typical chips from the microprocessor giant — the dual-core... Read more

29 December, 2011

Hitachi GST releases small HDD for servers

...occupies 70 percent less physical space and consumes up to 65 percent less power than similar 3.5-inch enterprise drives." Average seek times are... Read more

14 December, 2011

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