More than half of corporate PCs have only one-fifth the processing power of today's high-end chips.
"Our engineers selected the PSoC 3 platform because it delivers the perfect combination of low-power consumption, processing power, and flexible communications interfaces, " said Bryan Lee, President of Oscium.
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Now some of that language-processing power is available to everyone in the form of an API that developers can use to have Google distinguish between different categories of text.
Moore's Law alone, which decrees that computer-processing power will double every 18 months and has at least another ten years to run, will soon allow computers to do things that are almost unimaginable.
"With the installed base of Android and Tegra already at critical mass, developers looking to have their games stand out have the promise of financial reward to invest in high-end content, not to mention the hardware processing that can power next-generation games, " Iida said.
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In contrast, most older adults would bring on more right-side processing power, a phenomenon called bilateral activation.
Rapyuta's creators hope it will make robots cheaper as they will not need all their processing power on-board.
For the developers at Eidos Montreal, crafting a next-gen "Thief" game means using souped-up processing power to transport players under the cowl of Garrett, the series' cynical protagonist who returns for the fourth edition.
Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.
The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.
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While the ever improving processing power and always-on broadband connectivity of the smartphone are the core assets, it has been interesting to see such widespread capabilities as the camera, GPS, and even audio jack used as hooks for new FinTech solutions.
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The iOS 6 makes the phone into a Mac-in-your-hand with more processing power and memory than previous versions.
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Your smartphone now harnesses the processing power of a multi-million dollar mainframe computer that not so long ago filled an environmentally-controlled room.
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That said, the patent does suggest that older iPhones may not have enough processing power for the gesture-capturing workload, as it shows a way to transfer video from the iPhone to an iPad for more advanced editing options.
Today's Sony PS3 unveiling has opened up a world of questions regarding how Microsoft expects to maintain a competitive edge against a system that will supposedly have more than double the raw processing power, a next-gen media drive (Blu-ray, in this case), two-generation backwards compatibility, and even support for 1080p hi-def.
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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor combines the company's award-winning Advanced Voice processing technology with its first high-performance, low-power audio codec for a best in class voice, speech recognition and multimedia experience on a mobile device.
By incorporating two TRUE II processors, Sigma's unique image-processing algorithm provides high resolution power and reproduces high definition images with richly graduated tones as well as a three-dimensional feel.
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By adding the Evolution Kit to their 2012 Smart TVs, consumers can enjoy a redesigned Smart Hub, enhanced Voice Interaction and Motion Control, as well as a quad-core chipset for increased processing power.
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As processing power, graphics and touch-navigation continue to improve on mobile devices, many vendors are adding new functionality to their shrunken mobile solutions, rather than creating solutions designed from the ground-up for mobile devices.
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More than half of corporate PCs have only a fifth the processing power of today's high-end chips.
While Android has been gaining in popularity, the superior processing power of the Tegra 2 dual-core may set standards of performance in the mobile market and challenge leaders like Apple.
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Major software companies, including Oracle, IBM, Google and even Amazon.com, are all beginning to offer their own forms of utility computing applications, such as software-as-a-service and rented storage and processing power.
This, Dr Levoy explains, is mainly down to the processing power of devices, such as camera-equipped smartphones, growing faster than the capacity of sensors which record light data.
Meanwhile, less than two decades ago in the mid-1990s, the relentless increase in processing power of microchips and corresponding price declines unleashed another form of IT, commonly known as mobile phones.
"Applications that require more processing power and the full capabilities of a phone - games for example - lend themselves more to native applications, " said Mr Dillon.
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With a high responsiveness and exceptional processing power, it is a 13.3-inch detachable mobile laptops that use according to the scene, you can combine and separate the LCD screen and keyboard.
While Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems were adding features and processing power to their pricey servers, RLX would steal the low end of the market.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
The Wii also represents no significant gain in processing power over its predecessor, another first for a console-war top-seller, said Daglow.
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