Apple looks set to shun the next-generation 4G technology, LTE, for its first year in the U.S. Can it still retain its title as the most advanced smartphone, in the face of strong competition from Windows 7 and Android phones?READ»
In the hours before Microsoft's Apple challenger launched, a slew of Windows phones surfaced. Then MS revealed a total of 10 phones for 30 countries. Most look like competitors to the current iPhone, not next year's. READ»
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.READ»
A cluster of future CPUs from Intel have just been announced, and among them are mobile chips that may (or may not) power the rumored, smaller MacBook Air upgrade. Thing is, there are two candidates.READ»
The smartphone and tablet revolution is propelled along by clever designs, but also by clever hardware, and Marvell's just revealed a 1.5GHz, triple-core mobile CPU that delivers the kind of processing power your current-gen phone merely dreams of.READ»
You've seen plenty of robots and androids in the news, but you've probably never seen anything as astonishing as HRP4, which promises to be cheap, powerful, and the most sci-fi-like bot built to date. READ»
Like your local Mac market, SPARC is slick, modern, and offers specialized instruction--in acupressure and self-healing, Ayurvedic cooking, art therapy, and calligraphy.READ»
ARM only just revealed its Coretex A9 chips, it seems--dual-core madness that'll make next-year's smartphones and tablet PCs serious competitors to laptops. And now here's the A15. With four cores. And speeds up to 2.5GHz.READ»
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.READ»
AMD's Brad Burgess is the chief architect behind the company's future low-power/portable device Bobcat CPUs. We spoke to him about them, but also about the future. READ»
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.READ»
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Palmer, 44, works with equipment manufacturers to develop applications using Intel's Atom processors to lend intelligence and ...READ»
Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»
Official word is out that Intel is about to fork over $1.4 billion for the wireless products division of Infineon--partly to screw Apple, partly to cosy-up to its old mate Microsoft.
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A custom app to interface with a supercomputer and complete some of its calculations? You've got it--courtesy of MIT and Texas Advanced Supercomputer Center. And it's not Apple's glory this time, it's Android's.
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Forget Intel versus AMD--that was a chip-maker battle of yesteryear. Now the real CPU war is happening in smartphones and servers, where Intel is playing a desperate game of catch-up to ARM and a few new contenders.READ»
Apple has, as expected, lavished some upgrade love on several of its products: The Mac Pro, the iMac and the Cinema Display lineups have all been tweaked to improve their specs. The Mac Pro even got a 12-processor core ...READ»
iPhone fuss be damned: Apple's pushing ahead with refreshing its other hardware, ready to bump up that revenues chart we showed you. Rumors say the Mac Pro and iMac line are getting a revamp, but will we see the Magic Slate too? iMac ...READ»
3-D animation has traditionally been dominated by mammoth Hollywood studios, and for good reason--the amount of processing power that goes into 3-D animation usually requires dedicated server farms that are air-conditioned 24 hours ...READ»
The App Store Wars keep getting more interesting: Software firm Bsquare just announced it'll be releasing a developer platform to support Qualcomm's low-power-eating but powerful Snapdragon smartphone CPUs. More apps are en ...READ»
Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»
AMD hasn't given up its fight in the CPU battle against rival Intel: It's now reaching for the next computing revolution--the cloud. A slew of new powerful but cheap AMD chips are out. They also prove desktop supercomputing is en ...READ»
Toshiba's Libretto W100 is one of the oddest computers in recent memory: two 7-inch touchscreens that can operate either independently or together. It's certainly unusual, but is it enticing? It's one of three oddball laptops introduced today.READ»
The computer server industry may not sound like a hotbed for innovation to you, but SeaMicro thinks differently. It's just rocked the server world with a super-computer-like product that's smaller and more power-efficient than any ...READ»
