Chipsets

Smartphones to Get 1.5GHz Qualcomm Chips By End of Year

Now every man and his donkey has a Snapdragon chip in their smartphones, it’s time for Qualcomm to look past the 1.2GHz speeds and bring us a 1.5GHz dual-core. It’s on its way, from late this year/early next year. https://gizmodo.com/qualcomms-dual-core-snapdragon-1-2ghz-chips-seen-in-a-s-5552176 The dual-core QSD8672 chip was outed by Qualcomm’s VP of product management, Mark Frankel, and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 17

Qualcomm’s Dual-Core Snapdragon 1.2GHz Chips—Seen In A Smartphone Near You Soon

It’s become de rigeur for manufacturers to whack a Snapdragon processor in smartphones nowadays—even if people don’t quite understand what it means (or does), they want nothing less. Now, Qualcomm’s offering dual-core 1.2GHz chips to manufacturers. See the MSM8260 and MSM8660 in an Android phone near you soon, with support for 1080p video encoding and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 1

AMD Vision Refresh: Better, Faster, More

AMD’s officially closing the gap. With the help of a slew of major manufacturers, they’re putting their processors in nearly three times more notebooks than last year, expanding their Vision branding to desktops, and ramping up performance across the board. https://gizmodo.com/amd-vision-takes-complicated-processor-stickers-off-lap-5355973 To be clear, Intel’s still the big dog here. But they’ve been showing some…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 12

TI’s OMAP4 Chipset Promises Insane Performance and 145 Hours Battery Life

TI’s new dual-core OMAP4 mobile chipset, the sequel to the OMAP3 series that powers the Droid and Palm Pre (among others), claims crazy performance: Three independent displays running 1080p video, for example, and an estimated 145-hour battery life for audio. Basically, TI made up a kind of demo unit (pictured) to show what the OMAP4…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 2

Via VN1000 Chipset Classes Up Your Low-End PC With Power-Efficient Blu-ray and DX10.1 Support

Via’s been on a roll lately with power-efficient products, and the VN1000 continues the trend. For those of you with lower-end desktops or all-in-one Windows 7 PCs, the VN1000’s your chance at a full HD multimedia experience that’s also a stingy power consumer. It supports Blu-ray and DX10.1, DDR3 system memory at speeds of up…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 11

Nvidia’s Nforce Chipset Is Dead in the Water

I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I’m a little sad to see that Nvidia’s freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia’s license covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia’s not developing new chipsets for AMD’s processors,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 8

Samsung Intros Processors, Cameras and Chipsets for Mobile Devices

Samsung introduced a mess of new components for mobile devices that we’re likely to start seeing in early 2010, including a 5MP camera capable of taking 1080p video and a couple powerful yet efficient chipsets. There’s a ton of stuff here, some of it quite similar, but it’s pretty certain these’ll be popped into smartphones…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz Sep 22

Confirmed: Zune HD Rocks the Nvidia Tegra

We were pretty confident before, but now we’ve got it straight from the horse’s podcast: The Zune HD will indeed pack the Nvidia Tegra chip, which should give it better battery life and enviable video acceleration. [ZuneInsider] https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-packs-nvidia-tegra-better-video-and-better-bat-5293404

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 20

Zune HD Packs Nvidia Tegra: Better Video and Better Battery Life

If you were wondering how the Zune HD could pack in such iPod touch-beating smoothness into such a small size, we might have an answer for you: It’s packing Nvidia’s teeny, high-performance Tegra processor. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-is-real-has-multitouch-web-browsing-oled-scre-5270945 As we explained in our Giz Explains: Low-Power Chipsets, Nvidia’s Tegra proc is designed to handle high-def video and Flash…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 17

Intel T9900 Core 2 Duo Notebook Processor Breaks the 3GHz Barrier

Intel unleashed a flurry of new processors at Computex, including the T9900 Core 2 Duo, which clocks in at a speedy 3.06 GHz—the first Penryn-based Core 2 Duo chip to do so. In addition, Intel announced the P9700 and P8800 Core 2 Duo desktop processors, which have speeds of 2.8 GHz and 2.66 GHz respectively,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 2

NVidia’s Ion Netbook Platform First Appearing in a…Desktop

Although Ion was pitched as a fast netbook platform, its poor battery life makes it a better mini desktop. And that’s what it will first appear in. This confirms the suspicions of many. [electronista] https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-ion-supercharges-netbooks-with-5x-faster-graphic-5111999

Tech News Brian Lam Feb 11

A Demo of Intel’s First 32nm Westmere Processors

At today’s San Francisco event, Intel mostly discussed what we know about the upcoming Westmere processor, but revealed they’re scrapping the next dual-core 45nm processors, in favor of 32nm Westmere chips in early 2010. https://gizmodo.com/intels-insanely-tiny-processor-roadmap-clear-path-to-5021907 The first Westmere chips will be the dual-core Clarkdale and Annendale processors, for desktop and mobile uses, respectively. In addition…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10

Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips to Have Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning Built-In

Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they’re adding Skyhook’s Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi chipsets, spreading the location-based love even without GPS. This is how iPhone regular finds your location in addition to using nearby cell towers (Skyhook…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 1

Why Apple Is Sticking With Intel Chipsets (Probably)

One of the more eyebrow-raising rumors in the scramble of them about Apple’s upcoming MacBooks is that they will switch from Intel chipsets to someone else’s. It seemed odd on its face, since Intel and Apple are fairly tight, and there’s not a very apparent reason to switch. Jon at Ars lays out a fairly…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 31

HP Admits Nvidia Defects Were Known Since Last Year

Dell isn’t the only laptop maker offering its customers help if they have laptops with certain Nvidia chips that are prone to overheating. HP has issued a list of laptops of its own that feature the chipset and states that it’s been a known warranty issue since late last year. While not offering to swap…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 28

Nvidia, Intel Kiss and Make Up: Bloomfield CPU to Have SLI Tech After All

Intel and Nvidia’s cold war over the discrete and integrated graphics chipsets that sit inside our computers seems to have at least partially thawed. Nvidia’s announced that “it will be bringing the power and performance of its SLI® multi-GPU technology to Intel’s upcoming line of Bloomfield CPUs.” Upcoming SLI motherboards will have the nForce 200…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 15

Intel to Add WiMax, 3G Support to UMPC Chipsets

Intel’s about to announce embedded support for both WiMax and 3G in their upcoming Menlow chip packages, which fit nicely into UMPCs running either Windows or Linux. Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group will give the WiMax, 3G, and Wi-Fi options to UMPC builders, but it will be up to these OEMs to incorporate the features into…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 19

Samsung Developing Low Cost, Low Power HD Radio Chips

Samsung is tossing their hat into the ring of HD Radio with an announcement that they will be developing chipsets for this up-and-coming radio format. This is pretty significant because the chips being developed by Samsung are of the low-power and low-cost variety, therefore HD Radio may be able to tap a market that it…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 10

AMD’s New Mobile Chipset Gives You 25% More Battery Juice

We know what you’re trying to do, AMD. You’re trying to steal Intel’s thunder by announcing your new M690 mobile chipset before Intel goes live with theirs. You’re tempting us by telling us it’ll deliver a 25% boost in battery life (that’s over 5 hours) and that you’ll be partnering with Nvidia (over your own…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 3

Intel’s Bearlake Debuting Next Week with DDR3 Memory Support

May 9th is looking to be a big day for Intel. That’s when their new Bearlake chipset is expected to make its debut. In a nutshell, the new chipset will let you use DDR3 memory modules on your mobo. Cool, right? ‘Cause DDR3 is faster than DDR2? Not really. You see, when benchmarked, today’s DDR2…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 2

Smartphones to Get 1.5GHz Qualcomm Chips By End of Year

Qualcomm’s Dual-Core Snapdragon 1.2GHz Chips—Seen In A Smartphone Near You Soon

AMD Vision Refresh: Better, Faster, More

TI’s OMAP4 Chipset Promises Insane Performance and 145 Hours Battery Life

Via VN1000 Chipset Classes Up Your Low-End PC With Power-Efficient Blu-ray and DX10.1 Support

Nvidia’s Nforce Chipset Is Dead in the Water

Samsung Intros Processors, Cameras and Chipsets for Mobile Devices

Confirmed: Zune HD Rocks the Nvidia Tegra

Zune HD Packs Nvidia Tegra: Better Video and Better Battery Life

Intel T9900 Core 2 Duo Notebook Processor Breaks the 3GHz Barrier

NVidia’s Ion Netbook Platform First Appearing in a…Desktop

A Demo of Intel’s First 32nm Westmere Processors

Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips to Have Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning Built-In

Why Apple Is Sticking With Intel Chipsets (Probably)

HP Admits Nvidia Defects Were Known Since Last Year

Nvidia, Intel Kiss and Make Up: Bloomfield CPU to Have SLI Tech After All

Intel to Add WiMax, 3G Support to UMPC Chipsets

Samsung Developing Low Cost, Low Power HD Radio Chips

AMD’s New Mobile Chipset Gives You 25% More Battery Juice

Intel’s Bearlake Debuting Next Week with DDR3 Memory Support

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