Intel 's new Core chips are a hit for the company--and a radical change.
Nvidia is revealing more details about its next-generation quad core chips that will power upcoming tablet computers.
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The technology could be key for transferring data between massively multiple core chips - devices with several linked computing engines.
It also expanded its wireless product portfolio with NFC quad-core chips, which targets growth in mass market mobile phones as well as high-end mobile phones and devices.
The company also expanded its wireless product portfolio with NFC quad-core chips which targets growth in mass market mobile phones as well as high-end mobile phones and devices.
Now all we need are some Core 2 Duo MacBooks and we'll have the family fully upgraded -- that is, until they get those quad-core chips going.
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The Z600 line of low-power single-core chips released a year ago were said by Intel to be the fastest smartphone chip at the time and capable of 1080p video.
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The whole lot can be selected with dual- or quad-core chips from AMD and Intel, while select configurations are equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce GT7XXM series or AMD's Radeon HD8750 discrete graphics.
So, no, the cluttered convention halls of CES 2013 won't necessarily herald the arrival of five- (or even eight-) core CPUs, but we could be in store for tabs outfitted with faster quad-core chips.
The Register is reporting that PA Semi had a close relationship with Apple in the months prior to the switch, and that the two companies were working together to gauge the feasibility of running native PowerPC-coded software on 2GHz dual-core chips that PA Semi claims run at only a third of the 21 to 25 watts consumed by Intel's Core Duo models.
Technologies including multi-core processor chips, more efficient power supplies and smart cooling systems are already available.
The shares of NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) are poised to shine as brightly as the graphics produced by their core processing chips this morning.
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At CES today, Nvidia showed off its dual-core Tegra chips powering the coming LG Optimus 2X, which CEO Jen-Hsun Huang declared to be the first true SuperPhone.
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Expect the market this year to segment itself between performance-minded tablets and smartphones powered by dual-core ARM chips based around the 1 GHz Cortex A9-MPCore, and less-expensive mass-market offerings running single-core versions of the A9.
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Just weeks after Intel announced that it would be releasing Core i5 and Core i7 chips for the mobile realm, the usual suspects have already outed a number of refreshed rigs that include said slabs of silicon.
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They would mostly run Android, sport single-core ARM chips, relatively-short battery life (think 4-5 hours), inferior touchscreens (stylus, anyone?), and often a poor selection of apps (subsets of the Google Android Market or, in the case of e-readers, none at all).
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Intel says it will move from dual-core to multicore chips as fast as software firms can develop applications designed for them.
But reports this week that semiconductor giant Intel will soon cut prices by 50% on its top-end Core 2 Duo chips--as profit margins continue to sag--signal that its war with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices continues.
But reports this week that semiconductor giant Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) will soon cut prices by 50% on its top-end Core 2 Duo chips--as profit margins continue to sag--signal that its war with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) continues.
It has a fast multi-core processor, separate chips for graphics and sound, and a hard drive.
Even at Intel in the 1970s, its microprocessor was a sideshow to its core business, memory chips.
Current MacBooks use Nvidia graphics chips along with Intel Core i series and Core 2 Duo processors.
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"The 4th generation Core processors are the first Intel chips built from the ground up with the Ultrabook in mind, " Skaugen said.
Intel's products are typically built around two or four core processors, but the Larrabee chips are expected to have 12 to 48 processors.
Separately Wednesday, Otellini addressed its smaller competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, which today took out full page ads in national newspapers to challenge Intel to a "dual core duel" to see whose chips are faster.
Separately Wednesday, Otellini addressed its smaller competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), which today took out full page ads in national newspapers to challenge Intel to a "dual core duel" to see whose chips are faster.
The company launched other new chips, including a dual-core microprocessor for PCs, and declared itself the technological leader over Intel.
David "Dadi" Perlmutter, the 53-year-old Israeli engineer who ran the Core team, is now in charge of the sprawling microprocessor giant's product development decisions--that is, figuring out which chips will one day replace the Core.
Apple already does the detailed design of the chips with ARM providing the basics of the core.
Obviously, Intel is a biggie, but in particular AMD says Temash should be able to compete with Clover Trail tablet chips, going all the way up to Core i3 on laptops.
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