07 May, 2013, 11:02 am IST | Nikhil Subramaniam | CPUs

Intel has unveiled a new low-power, high-performance microarchitecture called Silvermont. This microarchitecture will serve as the foun More

29 Apr, 2013, 11:46 am IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

Intel has announced that its newest family of processors, codenamed Haswell, will be available from June 3 in the US and June 4 in Taiw More

18 Apr, 2013, 3:46 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs | 2 Comments

Chip-company Adapteva has announced that it has build its first parallel-processing board for Linux supercomputing. Those who had backe More

13 Apr, 2013, 12:34 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

Nvidia is making a bigger push towards gaming with its next mobile processors. According to VentureBeat, the company compared the graph More

20 Mar, 2013, 2:26 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

If you thought the Tegra 4 and the Tegra 4i would be the last mobile chips we saw from Nvidia for a while, you're mistaken. Accord More

07 Mar, 2013, 7:58 pm IST | Nikhil Subramaniam | CPUs

A strategic shift is on the horizon. Intel, the world’s top chip maker, is making small forays into manufacturing chips on a contract More

01 Mar, 2013, 10:46 am IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

Nvidia has announced a new processor for mobiles at the Mobile World Congress event. The processor is a variation of the Tegra 4, dubbe More

25 Feb, 2013, 5:14 pm IST | Nikhil Subramaniam | CPUs

Intel’s attempt to find a foothold in the SoC market has just got a boost. The company has just announced its first dual-core Atom pr More

21 Feb, 2013, 6:24 pm IST | Nikhil Subramaniam | CPUs

ST-Ericsson has announced a beast of an SoC, that the company will demonstrate at Mobile World Congress next week. The new 3 GHz eQuad More

21 Feb, 2013, 2:33 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

After having unveiled its high-end processors back in January during CES, Qualcomm doesn’t seem to be resting on its laurels. The com More

15 Feb, 2013, 12:21 pm IST | Nikhil Subramaniam | CPUs | 1 Comments

Qualcomm has revealed that its latest chipsets, which are already in use in 70 smartphones and tablets, include a new technology called More

02 Feb, 2013, 11:22 am IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

Nvidia seems to be having trouble with getting companies to adopt the Tegra 4 processor. According to a report by DigiTimes, Toshiba ha More

11 Jan, 2013, 3:28 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs | 1 Comments

ST-Ericsson has unveiled its latest NovaThor chipset, dubbed the L8580. It runs on four Cortex-A9 cores clocked at up to 2.5GHz and pow More

10 Jan, 2013, 3:57 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs | 1 Comments

The mobile processor trifecta has been completed thanks to Samsung unveiling a new iteration of the Exynos chip. The Exynos Octa chip, More

08 Jan, 2013, 3:12 pm IST | Shunal Doke | CPUs

With Nvidia having recently unveiled the Tegra 4, it looks like it's time for escalation. Qualcomm has unveiled the new Snapdragon More