Intel's 2012 CPUs will have baked-in support for super-speed USB 3.0, the tech that Steve Jobs just noted isn't taking off due to...lack of Intel support. What's going on?
Apple TV is out, and it's already been sliced and filleted, revealing Apple's long-term secret plan to get its app store onto your TV and beat the set-top-box brigade.
Samsung just pulled the veil from its dual-core Orion low-power chip, based on ARM Cortex A9 designs. It's powerful, impressive. It may also be the secret behind Apple's next iPad/iPhone CPU.
Apple's latest iPod and Apple TV event was notionally about the snazzy product line, but it also reveals how much Apple's future hinges on its house-brand ARM chips--the A4 silicon is now inside four keystone Apple gizmos.
Apple really wants to take a bite at the gaming market, as some novel patents show. But its third-party developers are already doing half its work for it, and dooming the PSP along the way.
The iPad has landed, rocketing its gleaming metal tech down on the dusty computing world to set up a new Tranquility Tablet base. But report after report notes the iPad is anything but "tranquil"--it's blazingly fast. Why? It kinda had to be.
