Ivy Bridge Explained

The Ivy Bridge upgrade constitutes a ‘tick’ in Intel’s tick-tock roadmap, meaning a shrinking of the die rather than an overhaul of the architecture. So it’s basically a 22nm version of the last generation Sandy Bridge 32nm CPUs, though Intel is keen to stress there is more to the new Ivy Bridge range than a [...]

HTC ST-Ericsson CPUs

HTC has collaborated with ST-Ericsson to produce a range of mobile CPUs. The new processors are aimed at the entry-level smartphone market, freeing HTC from reliance on Qualcomm chips, and possibly enabling the company to follow the examples of Samsung and Apple in taking firm control over component supply. Though HTC has looked at manufacturing [...]

Quadcore Snapdragon S4 For Windows 8

Windows 8 will be the first ever Microsoft desktop operating system supporting ARM processors alongside the more usual x86 Intel and AMD processors. It’s widely expected that Windows 8 tablets will severely dent market share for both the Apple iPad and the various Android tablets in the wild. Now Qualcomm is developing a 28nm quad-core [...]

Valley View – Atom Plans For 2013

Leaked slides detailing Intel’s Atom roadmap suggest the company is developing its next-gen Atom processors – code named Valley View – to be built on a 22nm architecture and sporting Ivy Bridge class integrated GPUs. The follow-up to the recently-released Cedar Trail family of netbook CPUs is expected to launch in early 2013 – probably [...]

Ivy Bridge Shipments Delayed

Intel has notified OEMs that volume shipments of the next generation Ivy Bridge processor will be delayed until June. It seems the delay is a result of Intel and notebook vendors suffering from a backlog of existing Sandy Bridge stockpiles, due mainly to the weak global economy. The die shrink to 22nm of the 32nm [...]

AMD Edges Into Ultraportable Market

Ultraportables or ultrabooks as they’re called these days, are all the rage at the moment, but until now they’ve only been available with Intel processors. Now AMD has refined its portable chips so that they consume less power and produce less heat. AMD now combines CPU and GPU on a single chip to make an [...]

How to solve Megaminx with your android phone

I can do rubix cube, in fact …this is long time ago…I was able to assemble it under 3 min, but I was always intimidated by this dodecahedron Megaminx. I mean, 12 faces and each with 5 sides, that just looks impossible. Now, this robot, built out of LEGO, HTC Desire smartphone running a custom [...]

Smart Q7 MID Price in China – Yuan 1200 ($175)

SmartQ MIDs are cheap, and by cheap we mean really cheap. They can be seen being sold at under $200 in most of the online stores. SmartQ7 MID is a 7-inch MID with WVGA resolution that is based on an ARM-11 architecture. It has meager 1GB flash based storage.

Other Specs: WiFi, built-in microphone, SDHC expansion slot and can be mounted as mass-storage device. Weighing just 480gm, it is one of the lightest 7-inch device we have ever come across. It is also one of the cheapest MIDs around. It costs just $175! Try beating that.

Note: WVGA = 800X480

Intel to launch SU2300, Celeron 743 processors in September

Intel is all set to introduce two CULV processors in late September. This includes SU2700 and the Celeron 743.

The Celeron 743 is supposed to be 100MHz faster than the current 723 model and will hit the market at the same price as the old Celeron 723, which used to cost around $107.

Whereas the SU2700 is a bit more promising and will cost $134. That’s half of what an SU3500 costs right now. The SU2700 CPU runs at 1.2GHz and features just 1MB of cache. But that does not make it a bad buy at all! It’s still a much better choice than the Celeron.

Intel is very sure that the 743 is 1.7 to 2.1 times faster than an Atom N270 in audio transcoding and image processing. The new processor are expected to make their debut in China in early September and globally later that month

Android Netbook by Skytone

Yesterday, we posted about the ibuddie netbook which would be powered by Android OS. Now, Skytone is also going to release its Android powered netbook.

It will come with following specifications:

• 533MHz ARM processor
• 7-inch touchscreen
• 800 x 480 resolution
• 128MB of RAM
• 1GB of storage
• SD card slot
• 3G (optional)

The netbook may seem pretty underpowered when compared to the netbooks powered by Atom processor, but we must not forget that we are talking about a netbook that runs mobile OS. Android OS is certainly not ‘that’ tasking on the CPU and hence, does not a lot of horsepower to run.

It is nice to the option to get one with 3G built-in though.