Kind of like Apple TV, which recently swapped out an Intel processor for its own ARM-based A4 design.
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Sometimes we make a big deal out of a processor and its innards, while other times we barely mention it.
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The move comes as AMD is struggling to crank out its latest processor design in large numbers, while Intel has moved a step ahead of AMD in manufacturing technology, pushing out processors with smaller transistors than its competitor has.
While we already have a pretty good idea of Intel's near-term processor plans, the company has now decided to give folks a glimpse a bit further into the future, laying out some its processor plans through the year 2010 at its spring analyst meeting this week.
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You did take that money set aside for your next preamp-processor upgrade out of the stock market didn't you?
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By comparison, Intel's Itanium 2 server processor tops out at 1.66 GHz.
Among a range of improvements, including an 8-megapixel camera with burst mode (instead of the Grand X's dowdy five with no burst) and 1GB of RAM (instead of 512MB), the biggest change is that processor: out goes the old NVIDIA Tegra 2 and in comes a Medfield Z2460.
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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).
Short of going out and buying a faster processor, you can make your computer run even faster by uninstalling any unnecessary applications.
The phone's new A6 processor also helps out, offering a "smart filter" for better color matching, as well as speedier capture and still capture during video.
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Stellar Pinnacle Mi-530, an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS (Upgradeable to Jelly Bean) smartphone is a stylish yet powerful device which comes with 1.2 GHz Dual Core Processor that churns out seamless performance for all your media and applications.
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Intel is doing everything to persuade Apple to stay with Core processors, but Apple is always interested in getting more mileage out of the crack team of processor developers it got when it bought PA Semi.
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The device also has a front-facing camera, HDMI out, a 1 Ghz ARM-based processor and Flash support.
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The leap might be akin to going from having to correct articles with Wite-Out to editing them onscreen with a word processor.
Motorola's Atrix 4G phone will have a sure-to-be-fast dual-core processor inside, allowing it to pump out 1080p high-definition video through an HDMI port.
Turns out they were just that, while the image processor inside the panels is 1080p, the screens themselves are 1366x768 (720p) native.
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The base model is tricked out with an Intel i7 3630QM 2.4GHz processor, an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 670MX 3GB GPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive, an 8x DVD drive, an 8-cell battery and a 17.3-inch glossy, backlit display.
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Hoping to keep pace with community feedback, Razer is kitting out the Edge with a 3rd gen Intel Core processor, a 10.1-inch 1, 366 x 768 display, an NVIDIA GT640M LE GPU, 4 to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, USB 3.0 and a 64, 128 or 256GB SSD, depending on the SKU. Min translated the slate's build into some digestible framerates: 59 fps in Dishonored, he told us, and 41 fps in DiRT Showdown.
If you choose to trick it out, you can configure it with a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM.
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That's a lot of new processor muscle, considering the TeraGrid already cranks out 60 teraflops of aggregated computing power per second, with three petabytes of rotating storage.
' (nyse: AMD - news - people ) ATI division, both of which crank out so-called graphics chips built around hundreds of processor cores.
The graphics market is now dominated by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices ' ATI division, both of which crank out so-called graphics chips built around hundreds of processor cores.
The 9300i is exactly the same as the 9300 in every way save for the addition of WiFi, which turns out to be a mixed blessing because the pokey 150MHz processor can't render pages as fast as the 802.11 can pull them down.
It's a much lighter product, at 1.3 pounds (down from 1.58), and although it uses a heavier-duty Atom processor, battery life is said to top out at about 10 hours. (The original lasted eight in our usual test.) Like the OG version, it allows for pen input on select models, but of course, Windows comes ready-made with a larger selection of apps where a pen might actually be useful.
It'll be powered by an as-yet unmentioned 1GHz dual-core processor, while a 5-megapixel camera will peer out the back.
This is to say that a processor might fill different cartons but the contents they churn out are the same.
Turns out, I think, that a 7 inch display with a fast processor and crisp display actually provides a pretty decent video experience.
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Intel's latest effort to shift from merely cranking out profits to becoming a growth company once more will rely on finding new markets for its x86 processor, rather than trying to build new businesses around it.
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