Did NVIDIA say it would stick to one new mobile processor design per year?
Processor design win visibility should increase heading into the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress trade shows.
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In September, AMD released a new four-core processor design, nicknamed Barcelona, that is getting strong reviews and commanding premium prices.
If Yeung is right, this could be the second time Intel has succeeded in seducing Apple away from a competing processor design.
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Intel proved that with its once lowly x86 PC processor design.
The best way to do that is to build that capability into processors built around computing cores licensed from ARM, which specializes in mobile processor design.
Ellis also notes that Intel (INTC) has been gaining ground in processor design wins, as has Freescale, while asserting that Nvidia (NVDA) and Texas Instruments (TXN) have lost some ground.
"It has a little bit of an Itanium feeling to it, " AMD's director of stream computing Patricia Harrell says, referring to an Intel processor design that has fallen well short of its early expectations.
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.
And while Intel said it will start selling a new processor design, dubbed Nehalem, in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD countered that it will shrink the size of the transistors on its existing server chips by the fourth quarter to match Intel's.
The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
Graphics specialist Nvidia said Wednesday it is building a supercomputer processor based on the same ARM design used in smart phones.
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To enable these innovative designs, Intel announced last September that it added a new line of processors to its forthcoming 4th generation Intel Core processor family targeted at about 10 watt design power, while still delivering the excellent performance people want and need.
Duron is AMD's first processor for budget PCs that takes advantage of an advanced chip design, or "microarchitecture, " that was unveiled last year for its higher-performance Athlon processor.
Kind of like Apple TV, which recently swapped out an Intel processor for its own ARM-based A4 design.
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At the low-end, AMD announced Bobcat, a design for a low-power processor that can be used in consumer electronics devices.
Immediately recognizable by its stunning design and glowing red Creative Sound Core3D processor, the Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion sound card provides hardware-accelerated THX TruStudio Pro audio technologies for unparalleled audio playback quality.
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The joint reference design is based on the Cavium PureVu Video Processor CNW3602 and the Celeno CL1300 HD-grade Wi-Fi System-on-Chip (SoC).
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It features a 3.7-inch AMOLED ClearBlack curved display blending seamlessly into the reduced body design, and a 1.4 GHz processor with hardware acceleration and a graphics processor.
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Intel's new processor, called Intel Media Processor 3100, will be built around the same chip design used in most of the world's PCs and servers, and it will support high-definition video, high-end audio and 3-D graphics.
Financial analysts worried that the aging glass-and-steel design would stunt sales, but the faster processor, better camera and Siri voice assistant -- plus the addition of a third major carrier, Sprint Nextel -- helped the smartphone maintain momentum.
Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, launched a new chip design of its own earlier this year in a processor called Athlon.
This particular rumor has been swirling for a while already, but Reuters says its own sources are now backing it up: Samsung will switch from an ARM-based design and use Intel as the supplier of the processor inside at least one version of its next 10-inch slate, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1.
It's a lot like the Series 7 we checked out, though this guy is of course a smidge thinner and lighter, given the fanless design and inclusion of an Atom-based Clover Trail processor instead of something in the Ivy Bridge family.
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To demonstrate the impact of the 4th generation Intel Core processor family, Skaugen showed a new form factor Ultrabook detachable reference design (codenamed "North Cape") that converts into a 10mm tablet and can run on battery for up to 13 hours while docked.
The modular design of the VCM enables automakers to separate the rapidly advancing processor technologies from the slower to update electronics in vehicles.
The HUAWEI Ascend G 330 is the latest addition to the HUAWEI Ascend G-family, combining slim, sleek design with a powerful 1.0 GHz dual-core processor that maximizes computing performance.
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And the Intel design has pretty impressive specs: a 1.2 GHz processor, running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, a 3.5-inch screen, 1080p video quality, a 5 MP camera, dual SIM cards (to allow switching between carriers), an FM radio, a Micro SD slot and a removable battery.
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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.
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Samsung continues to manufacture the A6 processor, the iPhone 5's main computing engine, based on Apple's design.
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