News tagged ‘atom’
Monday, 6 May 2013
Acer Iconia W3: A US$380, 8-inch Windows 8 Tablet?
The yet to be announced but already heavily leaked Acer Iconia W3 is an 8-inch, Intel Atom-based Windows 8 tablet that supposedly costs just US$380.
Friday, 25 Jan 2013
Intel Announces Low-Cost Yolo Smartphone for Emerging Markets
Intel has just released the Yolo, a low-cost Android handset based on the Lexington mobile platform, and is heading for Kenya. The budget smartphone is a result of a collaboration between Intel and Kenyan service provider, Safaricom, and is the first Intel smartphone for Africa.
Thursday, 13 Dec 2012
Intel Launches Atom S1200 Processor Series; Featuring Low-Power, 64-bit SoC
Intel has announced the Atom S1200 processor series that delivers 64-bit, low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed specifically for the server market. These Atom processors are ideal for high-density microservers, storage and networking systems.
Wednesday, 12 Dec 2012
Intel Unveils Details of 22nm Tri-Gate SoC Designs
Intel revealed design plans of its new 22nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will feature 3D Tri-gate transistors, in line with their Ivy Bridge counterparts. The company outlined this new microarchitecture for its SoC in a paper presented at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
Friday, 19 Oct 2012
Rumor: Intel's Next-Gen Atom CPUs to Feature Up to Eight Cores
Intel is rumored to be working on the next generation of Atom processors that are targeted at powering micro servers. Dubbed Avoton, this upcoming system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be based on 22nm Silvermont architecture and feature up to eight cores that share 4MB of L2 cache (1MB per core).
Friday, 28 Sep 2012
Intel Announces Details of Next Generation Atom Processor for Tablets
Intel has shared details about their next generation Atom processor. The company said there are at least nine manufacturers who will be releasing their devices built around a dual-core, 1.8GHz Atom Z2760 CPU that is very similar to the Medfield chip used in smartphones.
Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012
ARM CEO Not Impressed with Intel Mobile Smartphone Processors
ARM CEO Warren East said in an interview at CES 2012 that he was not impressed with Intel's foray into the mobile smartphone market. He added that ARM took Intel as a serious competitior; however, Intel mobile smartphone CPUs would not be as power efficient as ARM's offerings.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Intel to Lift Limitation on Netbook Screen Sizes?
Rumor has it that Intel will remove restrictions of screen sizes on netbooks powered by their N550 dual-core Atom processor.
