Purported specs include a 10-inch screen, 3G data and a custom ARM processor courtesy of its P.
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Its enclosure resembles the silver metallic enclosure of a MacBook Pro, but inside, it has the ARM processor architecture and operating system of the iPhone.
For the quarter, ARM said 1.1 billion ARM processor-based chips were shipped for mobile devices and tablets, and another 800 million for consumer and embedded devices.
There is the standard Intel-only version that runs existing Windows desktop apps and the less versatile tablet-only Windows RT for machines that use an ARM processor.
It's powered by a 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor, has a Mali-400 GPU and comes with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, plus an SD card slot for future expansion.
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If you do consider the Yoga, keep in mind that the 11-inch Yoga is a very different beast: it has an ARM processor and runs Windows RT, which does not support legacy Windows apps.
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Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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Dell's ability to provide end-to-end technology solutions using ARM processor architecture and the WindowsRT operating system means businesses can be assured that they will be able to manage and secure the XPS 10 on their networks.
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The company had thus far been unwilling to build chips based on the rival ARM processor architecture which dominates the mobile space, and insists that its x86 architecture will soon be on par in terms of power efficiency.
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Under the hood there's a 240Mhz ARM processor, which has DSP and Java acceleration built in, and 16MB of SRAM, expandable to 128MB, giving the player enough juice to run Adobe Flash and Java apps with future firmware upgrades.
Just a day after Samsung unveiled the smartphone as its inaugural Exynos 5 Octa device, the company has confirmed that the not-really-eight-core ARM processor should be in mass production during the second quarter of the year, or between April and June.
If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
Such is the case with a trio of WiBro-capable PDAs being marketed under the Flyvo brand by POSDATA, all of which run Windows CE 5.0 Professional Plus on an ARM processor and let you get your 'net on with WiFi as well in case you have to travel outside of Korea.
The Cortex-A57 is ARM's most advanced high-performance applications processor, while the Cortex-A53 is the most power-efficient ARM application processor.
For the first time, a 1 GHz ARM A8 processor controls the path of the coil of the bass loudspeaker in real-time.
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Under the hood, the existing pentaband 3G radio gives way to China's proprietary TD-SCDMA standard, and the ARM 11 processor gets a 20MHz speed bump to 700MHz.
The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
The market is crowded with established players like Nvidia launching a dual-core ARM-based processor for mobile devices.
The device also has a front-facing camera, HDMI out, a 1 Ghz ARM-based processor and Flash support.
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OMAP5, due by 2013, will have two next-generation ARM Cortex A15 processor cores.
For one thing, this month the company is only launching the Windows RT version of Surface, running on an ARM-based processor.
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At the heart of each tablet is a powerful 1.2 GHz Arm Cortex A8 processor paired with a Mali-400 graphics card for superior performance.
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That is consistent with previous statements from the company indicating that the Windows RT version of Surface, which will use an ARM-based processor, will launch in tandem with Windows 8.
It's based on an ARM 32-bit processor running embedded Android and contains a Wi-Fi interface.
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Despite this, the smartphone market remains dominated by ARM technology-based processor chips.
Japanese Apple fan site Macotara is reporting Apple has ordered up a MacBook Air powered by the ARM-based A5 processor Apple designs.
With Samsung's comments about an "unsatisfactory user experience" with Android 4.0, I feared it would overwhelm my poor old phone and its single-core ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
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Running it all is an low-power ARM-based embedded processor.
What we do know is that we were looking at a quad-core Mali-T604 and dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor, with a fabrication size in the range of "28 to 40 nanometers" (confirming the exact size would reveal the manufacturer).
ARM, which provides processor designs used in the majority of tablets and smartphones, posted Q4 revenue of 164.2 million pounds, and profits of 4.1 pence per share, ahead of the Street consensus at 151.6 million pounds and 4 pence, the financial news site StreetAccount notes.
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