Intel has announced that its newest family of processors, codenamed Haswell, will be available from June 3 in the US and June 4 in Taiwan. The initial set of Haswell processors is expected to comprise of quad-core CPUs for powering high-end...

Chip-company Adapteva has built its first parallel-processing board for Linux supercomputing. Those who had backed the Parallella Kickstarter campaign will be getting their hands on the processor board, named the Parallella, by summer. The company...

Nvidia is making a bigger push towards gaming with its next mobile processors. According to VentureBeat, t

If you thought the Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i would be the last mobile chips we saw from Nvidia for a while, you're mistaken. According to

A strategic shift is on the horizon. Intel, the world’s top chip maker, is making small forays into manufacturing chips on a contract basis for other electronics companies. And this shift could lead to a deal with Apple to use Intel’s...

Nvidia has announced a new processor for mobiles at the Mobile World Congress event. The processor is a variation of the

Intel’s attempt to find a foothold in the SoC market has just got a boost. The company has announced its first dual-core

ST-Ericsson has announced a beast of an SoC, which the company will demonstrate at Mobile World Congress next week. The new 3GHz eQuad NovaThor L8

After having unveiled its high-end processors back in January during CES, Qualcomm doesn’t seem to be resting on its laurels. The company has announced its lower-end processors—the Snapdragon 400 and 200. While the 800 and 600 were both...

Qualcomm has revealed that its latest chipset, which is already in use in 70 smartphones and tablets, includes a new technology called Quick Charge 1.0. The technology allows batteries to charge much faster than otherwise possible.The chipset maker...

Nvidia seems to be having trouble getting companies to adopt the Tegra 4 processor. According to a report by DigiTimes, Toshiba has so far been the fi

It looks like the mobile chipset escalation hasn't ended. According to GSMArena, ST-Ericsson has unveiled i

The mobile processor trifecta has been completed thanks to Samsung unveiling a new iteration of the Exynos chip. The Exynos Octa chip, based on the ARM big.LITTLE/Cortex A-15 architecture, is designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile...

With Nvidia having recently unveiled the Tegra 4, it looks like it's time for escalation. Qualcomm has unveiled the new Snapdragon 600 and 800 chips at the ongoing CES 2013. The new SoCs are going to be making an appearance in high-end devices...

Intel has unveiled a new platform for mobile devices, the Intel Atom Z2420, at C

It's Intel's turn to take the stage at CES 2013. Expect a lot of talk about Ultrabooks and mobile devices, with Bay Trail (Atom) and possibly Haswell (4th generation mainstream Core CPUs) being announced.

Nvidia has unveiled its latest mobile processor, dubbed the Tegra 4. The new processor boasts a number of improvements, including 72 graphics cores and better imaging capabilities. The CPU is based on ARM's latest Cortex A-15 architecture,...

Intel’s next-generation desktop and mobile platform will not debut till June 2013, according to Chinese website

If a leaked roadmap is to be believed, Intel will introduce a whole new type of CPU in 2014 which won’t fit into a socket on a motherboard, but will instead take over nearly all the functions that a motherboard now performs and will become an...

Intel's upcoming Haswell CPU line-up has been leaked. According to a report by VR-

Qualcomm Inc. today announced the addition of two new Snapdragon S4 mobile processors – the MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q. Both are members of the Snapdragon S4 Play processor tier, optimised specifically for a broad range of smartphone users seeking...

Intel Corp roped in device makers such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Hewlett Packard Co on Thursday to showcase tablets powered by its new "Atom" processor - a chip it hopes will help it biannually break into that crowded market.Intel initially...

With the Intel Developer Forum 2012 kicking off today, one of the major highlights of the opening keynote was the introduction of the 4th Generation Intel Core processors, which are codenamed Haswell.   Strangely, Intel hasn't yet decide

Intel Corp will tout a new generation of processors next week that consume less power, hoping to reinvigorate a stagnant personal computer industry and soothe increasing concerns about its growth.   Wall Street is

For years now, Intel has dominated the CPU race with AMD in its shadow. After Intel pulled out their Core 2 Duo trump card, AMD had no choice but to go down the ‘value option’ route. Personal computing has gone beyond the desktop and...

Samsung is planning to launch its own server chips based on the ARM architecture. According to a report by the Seoul Economic Daily, the South Korea-based company intends to come out with a low-power, multi-core ARM chips for micro-servers sometime...

A leaked slide from Intel reveals its plans to launch Ivy Bridge-E in the third quarter (Q3) of 2013. The CPU will thankful

Qualcomm is busy showing off its 10.1-inch developer tablet with the quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 SoC and Adreno 320 GPU on it. And going by the ratings that the tablet managed to get at the benchmarking test by The Verge,...

Cellphone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc is changing its internal structure to protect its technology licensing business by creating a new subsidiary that will work on open source wireless developments.   The biggest developer of cellphone chips

Last week Intel released the graphics programming documentation and register specifications for Ivy Bridge processors. This Ivy Bridge graphics core programming documentation spans 17 files spread across three volumes and 2,468 pages of technical...

Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to Intel Corp for the No.1 slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today's fast-selling smart...

Intel has disclosed new technical details of the first commercially-available product from its Intel Xeon Phi product family - a co-processor codenamed “Knights Corner”. In addition to delivering strong performance for highly parallel...

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's No.2 chipmaker, said it will spend $1.9 billion to build a new logic chip line to make processors for mobile devices as demand grows for smartphones and tablets.   Samsung, which makes application proc

Ivy Bridge is clearly the buzzword at Computex, this year and apart from Intel, every manufacturer worth its salt has an Ivy Bridge offering, be it a notebook or even a tablet. Along with that, Intel has announced their new CPU line-up in India as...

Taiwan's Acer Inc said on Monday it would remain closer to U.S. chipmaker Intel, even though Microsoft also embraces rival ARM for its new Windows 8 operating system. The world's No.4 PC vendor has given an upbeat outlook for the...

Intel Corporation today announced the expansion of the Intel Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility. To offer a...

PC chipmaker AMD's chief executive is betting that its larger rival Intel has overestimated consumers' willingness to pay top dollar for a new category of premium laptops. Riding the coat-tails of Intel's most

AMD today announced the launch of its widely anticipated 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks, All-in-One and traditional desktops, home theater PCs and embedded designs. The...

Intel Corporation today introduced the quad-core 3rd generation Intel Core processor family, delivering dramatic visual and performance computing gains for gamers, media enthusiasts and mainstream users alike. Available now in powerful, high-end...

The PC industry has been waiting patiently for this day to arrive as it finally marks the transition to 22nm for desktop processors and all credit goes to Intel in being the first to make it happen. Today marks the day Intel launches their Ivy...

The PC market hasn’t seen good times in the past year for a number of reasons - primarily the slowing economy around the world and also the Thailand flooding that affected the hard drive market. PC market growth has been marginal and...

It’s clear that quad-core ARM based chips are here for the long haul and with tablet/notebook hybrids running Windows 8 in the pipeline, the demand is only going to increase. Currently, ARM’s Cortex A-15 based processor sits happily in...

The processor market has seen quite a bit of action over the past few months and there is more expected in the months to come. The PC market, in general has been suffering under the weight of the ever expanding tablet and smartphone market. The...

Raspberry Pi sure has the potential to change the computing scene in developing nations, if it performs efficiently. The miniature PC went up for pre-order at the beginning of March and has been facing some delays in shipments, earlier due to a

While Intel is trying to carve a niche for itself in the mobile segment, it seems Qualcomm wants to branch out into the notebook space and what better platform than Windows 8, to do that. We recently learnt that the company is busy preparing their...

One of the ‘big’ highlights of 2012, so far, has been the Raspberry Pi Linux-based PC's $35 price tag. The beginning of March saw the company put up the miniature computer for pre-order and since then, the website has been flocked...

The PC market has seen better days, but things aren’t slowing down for it, just yet. IDC has released a report of the performance of the microprocessor market over

Electronic parts suppliers Premier Farnell and Electrocomponents said huge demand for a British-designed credit card-sized computer, which aims to make programming easy for children, had helped them access new customers around the world.The two...

The recently launched Raspberry Pi, which received an overwhelming acceptance and subsequent preorders has now suffered a sudden h