And, of course, it has to be bigger: it has a Core i5 processor, two fans and a 42.5Wh battery, whereas the RT has a Tegra 3 chip, a 31Wh battery and no fans.
Video shows Bob Mansfield, SVP of hardware engineering, talking about the increase in performance and battery life in A6 chip.
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And he notes that the new designs to be displayed at the show offer substantial improvements over first-generation ultrabooks, including better battery life and improved chip performance.
This included extended chip performance and battery life along with several in-built visually related features.
In the past, people would try to make a form of non-volatile memory by connecting a static, volatile memory chip to a battery.
What we didn't know is that the folks at OUYA are working directly with a team of folks at NVIDIA on the project, and that NVIDIA is helping the company to max out its Tegra 3 processor for use on a console rather than a mobile (no battery dependency means the little chip can go much further than usual).
The A6 chip makes for longer battery life and all-around quicker functionality.
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That's the case with StickNFind - circular stickers the size of a few 10p pieces stuck together which contain a Bluetooth chip, temperature sensor and battery.
No battery is needed because devices reading data from the chip will provide power by induction.
We create our own A4 chip, our own software, our own battery chemistry, our own enclosure, our own everything.
"The Intel chip would simply replace the Samsung chip currently being used, and allow better battery life, " says Howe.
Chip optimization will be particularly critical on mobile, where battery limitations will push against the requirements of real-time video.
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When performing general word processing tasks or surfing the Internet, it automatically cuts to the power-sipping integrated graphics chip mode, striking the ideal balance between performance and battery life.
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The new fourth generation iPad features the amazing 9.7-inch Retina display and includes a new Apple-designed A6X chip that delivers up to twice the CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of the A5X chip, all while delivering an incredible 10 hours of battery life in the same thin and light iPad design.
The fuel-cell on a chip is coming along fast and could well replace the rechargeable battery within a decade.
Obviously, the question remains how big of a trade-off there is on battery life in exchange for those two extra cores and the more powerful graphics chip.
The iPad 2 got a chip update last year, for example, which significantly extended its battery life by using a 32nm A5 SoC instead of a 45nm one.
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The two-watt Atom chip inside the Series 5 is rated for about nine hours of battery life, whereas the Core i5-powered Series 7 is expected to last between four and five hours on a charge. (The Series 5 is lighter, too, at 1.65 pounds, compared with 1.89 for the Series 7.) And, being a lower-powered device, the Series 5 has no vents.
Transmeta has produced a chip for mobile computers known as Crusoe that is designed to use far less battery power than its Intel equivalent.
With a 440 ppi screen, text on this Android device is crisp and super-retinal, and the quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon chip and 2GB of RAM should give it plenty of power, as should an oversize battery to keep up with all those pixels.
That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.
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