Apple's big advantage is controlling all parts of its products, from the user interface to the processor.
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This feature enables PIP functionality on mobile devices without the need for an additional MIPI interface into the baseband processor.
Thankfully, the phone isn't underspecced on power, with a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon S4 Plus offering more than enough for the generally processor friendly Windows Phone interface.
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"Once it gets down to the real heart of the matter, a processor is a processor, it is only the interface that makes a difference, " said Marc McDermott, chief of the electronic services division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
With three international patents pending, the API uses a universal payments interface, meaning that it works with any payment processor, in any currency, in the world.
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In one embodiment, a financial account management application stored on a processor-based device may provide an interface for defining financial transaction rules to be applied to a subsidiary account.
In addition we have seen the rise of huge data centers with thousands of individual servers containing two or more of these processors (each with two to six cores), but they are interconnected through switches and network interface cards that have not scaled along with the processor performance.
Rambus technology was supposed to be the only memory-interface technology to work with Intel's forthcoming Pentium 4 processor.
It's based on an ARM 32-bit processor running embedded Android and contains a Wi-Fi interface.
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That's not surprising as it's been among the few where the software giant has controlled "the whole widget" -- choosing the processor, designing the hardware, and developing not only the operating system and user interface, but a host of licensing standards, services and infrastructure supporting Xbox Live.
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