That QNX software powers the PlayBook and will drive future multicore smartphones from RIM, Lazaridis said.
The browser uses HTML5, and multicore microprocessors, making it faster to navigate and load movies and visuals.
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The PlayBook, a 7-inch touch-screen tablet RIM will release in the next few months, relies on this multicore concept.
TI's Jacinto 5 automotive infotainment processor is an automotive-qualified, heterogeneous multicore processor providing power, flexibility and real-time signal processing.
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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.
In 2008 it plans to demonstrate a multicore chip named Larrabee that may steal some of the market for high-end graphics chips.
It's hard to imagine how the sprawling world of Grand Theft Auto IV--which already taxes the multicore processors powering the XBox and Playstation--could be recreated on the Wii.
This is particularly true in multicore systems because cores actually can be sized differently, using more or less power as needed for a specific function and sometimes using multiple cores to execute the same command.
It has a full suite of process design kits, a range of multicore graphics solutions, other libraries and intellectual property (IP) suites available to chip designers, and a variety of packaging options.
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Unfortunately, there's nothing here to confirm screen-size, processing punch or much else, although we managed to sniff out an AnTuTu benchmark for the GT-P8200 that reckons it'll house a (presumably multicore) 1.7GHz processor and Android 4.2.
The new, even more powerful multicore AMD64 architecture rumoured to run the PS4 might seem to allow game creators to do anything they want, but sometimes being able to do anything amounts to less freedom than being given specific tools.
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We happened to see it in person at a CES-related event here in Vegas, and our quick assessment is that the screen is responsive, and the design chintzy. (Just look at that tacky plastic.) In addition to that 1080p display, it packs a 1.7GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip along with a TI multicore OMAP processor.
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