If we had to pick just one favorite feature of modern smartphone design, it would probably be the advent of 1GHz processors, like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip and Samsung’s Hummingbird part. Both of these could soon be obsolete, however, as Qualcomm gets… [...]
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Smooth-Stone, a chip start-up headquartered in Austin, Texas, has high hopes of bringing low-power cell phone technology to servers, potentially reducing the overall power consumption at large data centers by leaps and bounds. Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has never shied from being being blunt about where his company stands, having once promised to “open a can of whoop ass” on Intel. His latest comments aren’t quite as colorful, but they’re just as telling, and stil… [...] After playing with a smartphone equipped with a 1GHz Snapdragon or Hummingbird processor, it’s hard as hell to go back to a last-gen mobile phone plodding along at 500-600MHz. The difference is really night and day. Be that as it may, are we on the da… [...] The world’s biggest chips maker has thus far been absent from what is predicted to be one of the biggest moneymakers in silicon: mobile. Intel has been working to develope an Atom-based CPU that could work in mobile phones. The so-called Moorestown … [...] We keep hearing about all these tablets that are supposed to come out by the end of 2010, which makes us think it’s going to be a very busy (and competitive) holiday shopping season. Go ahead and add Nokia to the ranks, which also wants a piece of the … [...]
ARM president Tudor Brown echoed Morris’ statements, and then took it a step further. According to Brown, powering 50 percent of all tablet PCs might be a bit conservative, and the real number could linger closer to 70 percent, or even 80 percent. That stands to be a lot of tablets. Citing IDC figures, Brown said there will be 3 billion Internet-enabled devices by 2014, of which 1.6 billion will be mobile devices, 350 million will be home-use devices, 500 million mobile PCs, 200 million multimedia players, 100 million in-car electronics, and 250 million PNDs and digital photo frames. Giving ARM an advantage in all of these areas, Brown notes that ARM processors consume very little power so device makers won’t have to spend much time figuring out heat dissipation schemes. Whether or not ARM is being overly ambitious remains to be seen. Intel has made it clear that it too fully intends to compete in the tablet space and is readying its Oak Trail platform, a new system-on-chip (SoC) solution the Santa Clara chip maker will use to attack the tablet market starting in early 2011. Image Credit: ARM [...]
ARM president Tudor Brown echoed Morris’ statements, and then took it a step further. According to Brown, powering 50 percent of all tablet PCs might be a bit conservative, and the real number could linger closer to 70 percent, or even 80 percent. That stands to be a lot of tablets. Citing IDC figures, Brown said there will be 3 billion Internet-enabled devices by 2014, of which 1.6 billion will be mobile devices, 350 million will be home-use devices, 500 million mobile PCs, 200 million multimedia players, 100 million in-car electronics, and 250 million PNDs and digital photo frames. Giving ARM an advantage in all of these areas, Brown notes that ARM processors consume very little power so device makers won’t have to spend much time figuring out heat dissipation schemes. Whether or not ARM is being overly ambitious remains to be seen. Intel has made it clear that it too fully intends to compete in the tablet space and is readying its Oak Trail platform, a new system-on-chip (SoC) solution the Santa Clara chip maker will use to attack the tablet market starting in early 2011. Image Credit: ARM [...] |
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Less than two weeks ago, Bob Morris, ARM’s director of Mobile Computing, 
Less than two weeks ago, Bob Morris, ARM’s director of Mobile Computing,