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When we saw Samsung’s flexible AMOLED display at CES, we were a little excited about the possibilities – thinner devices, flexible gadgets and more. But anyone who has the slightest bit of experience with any sort of flexible plastic knows that they will crease if folded tight enough. Perhaps it was the least of our…
ZiiLabs, who is owned by Creative, known for making products that are targeted at the computer audio market, along with a handful of MP3 players, has announced two new processors today. The ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 both clock in at 1.5 GHz, with the later being a quad core chip and the former being dual core.…
NVIDIA has just announced that it has agreed to acquire soft modem company Icera, a baseband and RF technology company who makes chipsets and other RF components. NVIDIA plans to combine Icera’s technology with its own line of Tegra products to compete against the likes of Qualcomm and Broadcom. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, says,…
We’ve seen paper-thin displays before, but what about paper-thin computers? A new paper computer could change the way our gadgets are made and the way we interact with them. Or not. You know how these things usually go, but it’s still pretty damn cool. The paper computer acts like, well, a paper-thin computer. You can…
Intel has just introduced a 3D transistor design for its next generation of chips and these “Tri-Gate” transistors could power a new, powerful class of computers, smartphones and tablets. The 3D transistor design is important because the chips we have in mobile phones and tablets today are already pretty darn tiny and we’re near the…
While NVIDIA is getting a lot of good press for the powerhouse that is the Tegra 2 chip inside devices like the T-Mobile G2x (read full review), Qualcomm wants you to know that its Snapdragon processor has plenty of power, too. In the video below, Qualcomm touts the Snapdragon and its ability to play back…
LG said it will start cranking out its own custom ARM processors for its smartphones and this could mean that some cooler phones from LG in the near future. According to Mobile Burn, LG will be using the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A9 processors to craft these custom chips. What’s the advantage? Well, you can tailor…
ARM, the British firm that designs the chips that power just about every mobile phone on the planet, has said that consumers can expect to see products based around the Cortex A15 processor to come out during late 2012. What exactly does that mean? The first ARM Cortex processor, the A8, made mobile phones twice…
Wireless charging has long been a wet dream for many in the industry, but it wasn’t until 2008 when over 60 companies got together and formed the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) with the express goal of creating a standard that would work across various devices and across different vendors that people actually started believing that…
Intel said today that its “Oak Trail” chipset is now available and it will be in tablets and tablet-hybrids throughout the year. Will this be enough to help it compete against ARM? The new Atom Z670 appears to be the main part of its tablet push and this offers 1080p video decode, support for Adobe…