The Qualcomm-designed Snapdragon processor was quite the chip but one short year ago. It was “the” chip in fact. But these days as we sit here and look at Samsung’s Hummingbird processor, Nvidia Tegra 2, and upcoming ARM chips, the original Snapdragon processor starts to look quite dated. But Qualcomm, likely aiming to keep our attention on them, revealed new information concerning their upcoming redesigned Snapdragon processor, the MSM8960. Some of the...
The move to 32nm is in full swing for Intel. After releasing the world’s fastest consumer-grade 32nm processor earlier this year, the Core i7-980X, the company is finally starting a larger transition to the smaller architecture. Recently Intel began sending their hardware partners discontinuation notices on a slew of hardware. One such chip in particular is the old Intel speed demon, the Core i7-975x. This quad-core processor was fast. But it can’t hold a...
With the Mac App Store submission now in full swing and that January 20, 2011 launch date growing ever closer, Apple is in pushing more resources towards making sure the software that debuts along with the Mac App Store is of high quality and bug free. Reaching that goal will take countless hours of hard work by people who love to pick through every last line of code, every option menu, and every last checkbox looking for any and all bugs they can find. With that said, if...
Tech bloggers and smartphone junkies alike may be rantin’ and ravin’ over the upcoming ARM Cortex A9 processor and it’s lofty 1.5GHz speeds and dual-core possibilities, but there are much greater things on the horizon. Introducing the ARM Cortex A15. This architecture, codenamed “Eagle”, will usher in heaping amounts of digital masculinity in the form of 2.5GHz clock speeds as well as dual and quad-core designs. Even more mind boggling, the...
A CPU is a bland looking piece of silicon and various metals. Not much to look at, right? Well, if you’re a geek’s geek, that statement couldn’t be any less true. Truth be told, computer hardware is hot. With that said, take a look at the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge CPU with all of it’s beauty on display (more or less). Here you can see the result of a higher 2011 pin count over the outgoing king of the hill’s 1366 — a larger,...
