The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.
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The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.
The Sony -ibm- Toshiba Cell chip has nine miniature processing units.
The megahertz number so often cited in the marketing materials of computer companies refers to the computer's central processing unit chip as a partial measure of its ability to process data.
Anyway, the FPD2185W also has a integrated Faroudja chip for enhanced video processing, a built-in 4 port USB hub, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 178 degree viewing angle (both vertical and horizontal), and an 8ms pixel response time.
Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.
According to TechEye, Intel may also announce a new chip aimed at the data centre processing market and an alternative to Xeon.
It costs a few billion dollars to build a modern semiconductor wafer processing plant, and chip development costs can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
This arrangement makes the chip particularly suitable for image-processing, because each analogue element of the array can be made to correspond to a single pixel (one of the individual dots of which an image is composed).
Scientists are aiming to combine the odour sensors and the signal processing components onto one silicon chip.
This allows more to be fitted into a chip, with the promise of increased processing power and better energy efficiency.
Sony has succeeded in establishing a structure that layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels over the chip affixed with mounted circuits for signal processing, which is in place of supporting substrates used for conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.
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Samsung has gained approval to expand the chip plant in Texas where it manufactures the processing chips for Apple.
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UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
The Japanese firm is pinning its hopes on the processing power and storage capacity of its new console, which will include a revolutionary processing unit based on the new Cell chip, developed with IBM and Toshiba.
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device's graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device (nyse: AMD - news - people )'s graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
Believe it or not, it was back in 2006 that the chipmaker first started talking about its "new class of x86 processors" and the idea of an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) -- a chip that would combine a CPU and a fairly powerful ATI GPU onto the same die.
Weinberger tackled those problems by designing his chip from scratch, finding ways to split out parts of laborious signal-processing tasks and handle them in parallel.
Spun out from Philips Electronics in 2007, Silicon Hive specializes in paralell processing designs that can be built into the system-on-chip products at the heart of multimedia-friendly consumer electronics devices.
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Rival chip makers such as Texas Instruments and Motorola, which are strong in digital signal processing (a technology used in mobile telephones that is particularly suitable for intelligent appliances) welcome the chance to compete in a market that Intel does not dominate.
Sandbridge Technologies' SB3010 chips are flexible enough to handle a wide range of protocols, multimedia and application processing, which would enable handset makers to built multifunction handsets using a single chip, driving costs down.
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In addition, faster signal processing and lower power consumption can also be achieved through the use of leading process for the chip containing the circuits.
ENGADGET: Sony's new cameraphone CMOS jams bigger gear into the same space (video)
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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Sonaptic offers its technology on a chip or in software and is about to release a new version which significantly improves the efficiency of the audio processing.
Thanks to advances in chip design and computational throughput, a typical SoC today contains multiple cores to deliver extremely high levels of packet processing, security functions, signal processing, programmability and more.
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AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.
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