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Even though still stuck in the grain-of-salt category of news sources, it is no secret that Taiwan’s most famous rumor mill Digitimes has a great rapport with perpetually anonymous industry insiders. Well, looks like unnamed industry sources have on…
A perennial runner-up in the PC chip race, AMD has for long dithered on entering the mobile and embedded chip segment. Back in September, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told Fortune Magazine that his company has no immediate plans of entering this increasingly l…
Microsoft’s newer, slimmer Xbox 360 250GB console is fast becoming old news, except that up until now, the software giant hasn’t been particularly willing to detail the system-on-a-chip (SoC) that powers the device.
Details of the SoC were unveiled at …
The first consumer products powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming Fusion chips will be available early next year, officials at the chip maker said today. The Fusion family consists of chips, or APUs (Accelerated Processing units), that combine…
Advanced Micro Devices has said that it remains ahead of schedule with its Fusion chips – or APUs (accelerated processing unit) as it likes to call them. The low-power “Ontario” SoC (System-on-Chip), aimed at netbooks and low-end notebooks, will…
The Qualcomm Snapdragon processor is showing up in all manner of mobile devices all of a sudden. We’ve recently seen the 1GHz chip in the likes of the Google Nexus One, HTC HD2, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, and the Toshiba TG01. Now Qualcomm looks to be pushing the industry to see the Snapdragon as more than a mobile phone processor with their new “Snaptop” prototype.
The Snaptop is a touchscreen tablet with a nifty kickstand to prop it up on a table for use as more of a laptop replacement. It has a slim wireless keyboard with integrated trackball. The device is currently running a modified version of Android 1.6.
Much like the Lenovo U1 with its detachable Snapdragon-powered screen, this product is really just a concept. We have no indication that you’ll be able to buy one of these at all. If you could though, would you?
