MobileTopSoft news and reviews tagged with CPU

If what is being reported is true, Microsoft is in for a hell of a fight this year to compete with its Windows 8 tablet offerings. We are hearing that future Windows 8 tablets with Intel inside pricing will be more expensive than the iPad and Android tablets, the pricing is expected to start from $599 to $899. This is in part due to Microsoft and Intel unwillingness to adjust cost for suppliers, this could open the door wide open for ARM to gain footing.

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The Apple iPhone 4S is doing pretty well for itself, already surpassing over 1 million pre-orders. Anyway, a video of the device escaped over the great wall of China with some Benchmark goodies, and something new regarding “Siri”. The little over a minute video with no sound, shows what the A5 dual core processor is capable of, along with the GPU which is said to be 7x faster than the one found in the iPhone 4.

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Splendid news for all Windows Phone users along with those on the fence. Dual core chipsets and 4G LTE is in the pipeline for the platform, but will not blend in until performance and battery life issues have been ironed out. This was confirmed by Andy Lee, Microsoft’s smartphone chief, so hopefully all this good news won’t take too long to become reality.

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As expected, Samsung will no longer produce chips for Apple, this is likely to do with the with lawsuits both company have been throwing at each other for quite a while now. With Samsung out of the picture, Apple will soon rely on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for future iPhone and iPad chipsets.

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After over a year of waiting, Intel has finally answered the call and announced the first smartphone based on its Medfield mobile CPU. Earlier at IDF, Andy Rubin, the man who founded Android, joined the stage with Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini to announce something special and fantastic at the same time. 

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It is largely known that Intel is struggling to keep up with the competition where handheld mobile devices are concerned. The biggest problem facing the chip company is the fact that it is unable to come up with a suitable CPU that is power efficient enough to run on smartphones without killing the battery as soon as the phone is turned on.

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Hey guys, why don’t you all welcome the Motorola Pax. At first glance, you’ll notice how ugly this thing is, there is just no hiding those hideous QWERTY keyboard buttons and the bulky shape. If what we are hearing is true, then the Motorola Pax will be an exclusive device on Sprint.

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If you weren’t noticing, the Samsung Galaxy S II is sporting Samsung’s own Exynos dual core CPU, but as we already knew before, Samsung also plans a version with NVIDIA Tegra 2. Samsung didn’t specify why they chose to release the Galaxy S II with two different CPUs, maybe the company couldn’t manufacture enough Exynos so instead chose to take this route.

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Qualcomm is lagging behind its competitors when it comes to dual core chips, we are still left waiting to see which phones will be announced with Qualcomm dual core inside, seems we won’t have to wait for too long. (more…)