Last week, Nvidia teased us with a roadmap of its Tegra system on a chip (SoC). Kal-El, the company’s third generation SoC has been delayed a number of months as it originally expected the first Kal-El-equipped tablets would be shipped in August. Now, the company is looking for a release sometime in the fourth quarter. Nvidia’s General Manager of Mobile Business...
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Ivy Bridge, the 22 nanometer successor to Intel’s dominant Sandy Bridge processors, has been creating buzz at the IDF this past week. And still, one of its key features managed to go unnoticed: the graphics processing unit integrated inside the chip. The said graphic processor will be able to decode videos at a resolution of up to a staggering 4096 x 2304 pixels. The...
Intel’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini has announced that an Intel Android phone will be launched in the first half of 2012. In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Otellini said that the chip on Intel-based smartphones is named Medfield, and is based on the company’s PC-based architecture. Andy Rubin, Android’s business...