Its 8-bit Intel microprocessor was incredibly powerful at the time (though only a tiny fraction of contemporary processor power).
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The beefed up processor power on the new Kindle Fire should fix that and make viewing movies on Netflix a more enjoyable experience.
Such curve-based modelling has been a dream of games designers for years, but the mathematics behind the curves, and the processor power they demand, are daunting.
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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The display, touch-screen module, as well as the applications processor and power management integrated circuit are all thought to be made by Samsung.
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By knowing that the hybrid-style processor will power the phone ahead of time, they can write their software code to handle different levels of CPU activities, or swap between the two.
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.
The company is enjoying a resurgence thanks to demand for efficient, low-power processor designs.
At the low-end, AMD announced Bobcat, a design for a low-power processor that can be used in consumer electronics devices.
The site, on the banks of the Humber Estuary at Salt End already has a big chemical processor, a power station and a sewage treatment plant.
Brazos has low-power processor, so with the launch of Llano, AMD will be looking to better its position in the heavier performance notebook segment as well.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
Examples include the recent Amazon Kindle Fire applications processor and several mobile power management sockets.
Announced yesterday, Apple's new machine is the Titanium Powerbook G4 with a 667-megahertz Power PC processor.
"Temash" is AMD's elite low-power mobility processor for Windows 8 tablets and hybrids.
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By making components like the application processor, display and power management units in the Galaxy S4, Samsung can show off differentiations in their final, assembled product.
The Cortex-A57 is ARM's most advanced high-performance applications processor, while the Cortex-A53 is the most power-efficient ARM application processor.
With a more power efficient operating system and processor, it looks like the iPhone 5 will have the battery power to play those games throughout the day, without necessary pitstop charges, which is more than I can say about the 3DS and PS Vita.
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Technologies including multi-core processor chips, more efficient power supplies and smart cooling systems are already available.
The HD HERO2's new processor delivers twice the processing power, taking full advantage of a new high performance 11 megapixel sensor that delivers more than twice the image detail along with professional low light performance.
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The power density of processor chips used in PCs today is on a par with that inside a nuclear reactor--and anyone who's ever perched a notebook computer on his lap for a prolonged period knows all that power often manifests itself in excess heat.
If you'd like more power than an Atom processor while keeping the price in check, however, the S1082 could still be a solid choice when it ships to the US in February.
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The camcorder's mini video processor includes software by Looxcie that optimizes power use, 1automatically corrects for light and color, and formats video for mobile devices.
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Running it all is an low-power ARM-based embedded processor.
It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.
One thing that could enable is faster and more secure mobile devices, the kind of low-power gizmos for which the Atom processor was designed.
Wright made a great point that if videogames are serious about making great advances, they have to tap the power of the "other" processor--the human brain.
Intel boasted of a power-saving technology that will put power not being used by idle processor cores to work, speeding up those cores that are grunting through heavy-duty tasks.
Three high-performance MIPS computing cores--or brains--can be crammed into the same space within a phone or mobile device as a single Intel Atom mobile processor core without increasing the device's power draw.
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