The PC market was once the engine room of the global semiconductor market, writes Richard Wilson. But no longer. The two largest microprocessor suppliers to the PC market, Intel and AMD, see sales under pressure as smartphones and tablets take over as the chip market’s biggest revenue source…
Much ado in the blog-based Techoverse about Intel Android phones being launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.
PocketNow.com claims to have got some images and details for a phone that will be Motorola’s first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset, which…
One from David Manners’ Mannerisms blog:
Intel’s Medfield chip-set aimed at getting the company into smartphones has been dissed by ARM CEO Warren East.”Are they ever going to be the leaders in power efficiency? No, of course not,” East told Reuters at CES.”It’s inevitable Intel…
A bit of Android news emerging from the Intel quarterly results announcements. SlashGear reports: Intel has confirmed that it has received the Android 3.0 Honeycomb code from Google, and that it is “actively” working on porting the tablet-centric platform to run on x86 chips like its Atom processors…
Amino Communications is to launch an “add-on” set-top box to add new functions to existing pay-TV services, writes editor Richard Wilson.
Based on the Cambridge-based company’s Freedom media centre, the Freedom Jump is powered by the Intel Atom processor CE4100 and the MeeGo Linux operating…
Intel will debut its second-generation core processor family, code-named “Sandy Bridge”, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas tomorrow, writes Jenny Williams of our sister title Computer Weekly.
Extending chip performance and battery life, the new core i3, i5 and i7 processors are based on…
A milestone to note in the long-running saga – “The FTC has approved a settlement with Intel that resolves charges the company illegally stifled competition in the market for computer chips,” writes David Manners “The FTC settlement applies to CPUs, GPUs and chipsets and prohibits Intel from using threats, bundled…
Intel has posted a video demo of the pre-alpha MeeGo for tablets on YouTube. Nokia and Intel’s Linux OS aims to provide a cheap alternative to Windows and Android on Net Books and smartphones, writes Cliff Saran on Computer Weekly.
He shows how a user can use their…