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Nvidia Goes For Mobile 3D
News Nvidia's entry is the AR10 core, available immediately for licensing to companies building system-on-chips (SoC) for mobiles, Nvidia said on Wednesday. Nvidia also claims the AR10 is the first 3D acceleration processor for mobiles that supports...
[February 25, 2004, 16:25]
Quotes Of The Week, October 13-17
News We believe we will be the first to get the sixth generation [of processors] into mobiles, ahead of Intel, with the 0.25 micron process. "We had a giggle when we saw the report from CI. We're seeing the opposite of the research here.
[October 17, 1997, 11:28]
Samsung Shows Off Hard-drive Based Mobile
News In mobiles, increasing transistor budgets have meant that the amount of flash memory used to store applications or MP3 files has been doubling about every 15 months. Some high-end phones come with two processors, which speeds up performance and can...
[December 7, 2004, 8:50]
Leader: Goodbye Desktop, Hello Mobile
News However, falling prices of TFTs will soon make mobiles cheaper and more attractive. Two, they still lack the top-end features that the desktops have: giant screens, fastest processors, huge hard drives.
[July 1, 1998, 16:07]
Athlon 4 And Duron Ship In Laptops
News Athlon 4 is AMD's first mobile chip based on the Athlon core, and recently got its name as a challenge to Intel's Pentium 4, which won't appear in mobiles for months yet. See Chips Central for the latest on processors and the semiconductor industry.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
Analysis: Powering The Pocket PC
News Businesses adopt mobiles It can be used with a number of different GUIs, or none at all, and can run on several different processors. In the handheld market, Microsoft is far behind Palm, its main competitor.
[April 19, 2000, 16:17]
Intel Puts On Its Show With Prestonia
News Among other highlights, Intel will display the first Pentium 4 for mobiles, discuss a low-power mobile chip for 2003 called Banias, present updates on tech standards, and sketch out how Moore's Law will begin to affect other parts of the industry.
[February 25, 2002, 8:48]
New GeForce Arrives Next Month
News At the same time as the NV-25 launch, Nvidia is expected to unveil a desktop version of the NV-17M, a lower-end chip that is currently only available for mobiles. See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors.
[January 4, 2002, 14:20]
Emerging Markets Want Feature-packed Phones
News You wouldn't get many corded phones in India, but mobiles. Chia was announcing the release of a mobile TV-out processor targeted at emerging markets, which he claimed is more suitable for low-end devices than current similar processors because of...
[June 9, 2008, 8:08]
IDF: Banias Ends The Megahertz Madness For Intel
News In the past Intel has simply customised its desktop chips for mobiles, but Banias is a shift away from that cost-effective strategy. Hyperthreading will be introduced for businesses with Xeon processors next year, and will ultimately make it to...
[August 29, 2001, 10:59]
Via Project To Boost Linux Support
News Announced at the not-for-profit Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in Austin, Texas, this week, the chipmaker said that the soon-to-be-launched Via Linux website will be central to the project, hosting drivers, technical documentation...
[April 9, 2008, 14:23]
Intel: Mini-internet For Mobiles Will 'disappear'
News The semiconductor giant recently christened its new line of low-powered processors targeted at low-cost PCs, dubbed Atom. Mobile shrink-down versions of websites will soon be a thing of the past, says a senior Intel executive.
[April 2, 2008, 9:11]
OSDL To Push Linux For Mobiles
News But while Intel is dominant in desktops and servers, it has made less headway in processors for cell phones, where its competitors include Texas Instruments and ARM. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium devoted to...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
Mobiles To Get PowerVR 3D This Year
News ATI launched its own mobile 3D offering, the Imageon 2300 line of graphics processors, on Wednesday, and said those chips will support OpenGL ES. The first portable products using Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX 3D graphics technology will...
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
ARM Aims To Put Dual-core Chips In Mobiles
News More and more we are seeing the symmetric multiprocessing approach," said John Rayfield, vice president of technical marketing at ARM last April, when the idea of putting two processors into a mobile phone was emerging.
[October 21, 2003, 10:50]
Qualcomm Doubles Its Chips For Next-gen Mobiles
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Qualcomm on Thursday became the latest chipmaker to begin reworking the mobile phone's fundamental architecture to prepare it for the next generation of phone services.
[May 23, 2003, 8:01]
Motorola Mobiles Get 3D Games Engine
News Just as with PCs, mobile devices will soon have separate processors for handling graphics because this eases the main processor's workload and allows more complex and better looking applications to be executed.
[July 23, 2003, 17:10]
Mobiles To Get Dreamcast-like 3D Video
News Texas Instruments is to build video game console-quality 3D graphics capabilities into its line of processors for handheld computers and mobile phones. The company, a leader in wireless chips, said on Wednesday that it would license Imagination...
[April 9, 2003, 16:38]
Sun Calls Up Java For Mobiles
News Java is software that lets programs run on different computing devices -- for example, letting a chat program work on mobile phones from Siemens, Motorola or Nokia -- regardless of the processors used in the system.
[July 4, 2002, 9:38]
Intel Touts Month-long Battery Life For Mobiles
News Putting the three elements onto one die should allow devices to consume far less power, allowing for both longer battery life and more powerful processors. G mobile phones -- with always-on data connections but without broadband -- are expected to...
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
