The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S is like the Yoga 11, except instead of an ARM chip, it has a laptop-grade Ivy Bridge processor.
The next crop will run the new Windows 8 operating system, but this first, less expensive, line will run the stripped down Windows RT on an ARM chip.
As you'll no doubt be aware having read our headline above, there actually isn't a 1GHz CPU at the helm, as AnandTech and IOSnoops report the dual-core ARM chip is dynamically clocked around 900MHz, likely in search of reduced power consumption.
The leaders are companies like Apple (chips and systems), Samsung (chips and systems), Google (operating system), Qualcomm (chips), ARM (chip designs), TSMC (foundry), and Globalfoundries (foundry).
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Ditching Intel silicon could also mean a move away from x86, as Apple has been heavily invested in its own ARM-based chip designs in recent years.
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Not the GUI, not the iPod, not the cell phone, not 4G, not Siri, not the A6 chip (ARM based).
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The chip designer ARM grew out of the BBC Acorn computer project.
The chief executive of Arm Holdings, whose computer chip technology powers Apple and Samsung smartphones, is retiring after 12 years in the role.
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Right now, the researchers only have a small, 15-chip array on a robot arm.
And in the process take on ARM (ARMH), the British chip firm that dominates mobile phones?
Marvell is part of a growing group of chip makers that license designs from ARM Holdings PLC.
The Surface runs on an ARM microprocessor, but the upcoming Surface Pro will run on an Intel chip .
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Surface with Windows RT - to give the device its full name - runs on a chip made by Nvidia, based on the designs of British company Arm Holdings.
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Broadcom has licensed the ARMv7 and ARMv8 chip architectures that enables the company to build its own application processor based on leading ARM technology.
Last week, Broadcom licensed the ARMv7 and ARMv8 chip architectures that enables the company to build its own application processor based on leading ARM technology.
Considering the Nokia N900 runs Flash 9 extremely well on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor (and the Palm Pre, which uses the same chip, will be able to run Flash 10.1 when webOS 1.4 comes out) we don't see any reason other than politics that the iPad can't do it on that fancy new 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9-based A4 chip.
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Competition from Marvell Technology and ARM Holdings in handhelds is not insignificant, though McWilliams believes Otellini, by standardizing the core of all Intel chip designs and focusing efforts on new application markets, is preparing Intel for a fierce fight that it will win.
Will Skinner was denied a try by the arm of Juan Leguizamon and Ugo Monye's footballing skills deserted him when he raced onto Evans's astute chip, and the near misses nearly came back to haunt the hosts.
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