Kindle Fire HD features a world-class processor and the new Imagination Technologies graphics engine for lightning-fast HD graphics and excellent fluidity.
Apple itself is actually very well poised to enter the real world as a payment processor.
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He also counters that in a mobile world the aging x86 processor technology Intel and AMD have been riding for decades isn't as important as the stripped-down, power-efficient designs from the likes of Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
And the SPEC J Enterprise benchmark showing the SPARC T5 is the fastest processor in the world for its job in middleware.
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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor features the world's first two-microphone 48 KHz noise suppression implementation for the recording of clean, HD audio.
In addition to ARM and IBM, four of the world's leading application processor companies, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, will align open source engineering efforts within Linaro.
At the core of Project SHIELD is the world's fastest mobile processor, the new NVIDIA Tegra 4, which delivers enormous power from its custom 72-core GeForce GPU and the first quad-core application of ARM's most advanced CPU core, the Cortex-A15.
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In 2006 Intel sold its nascent xscale smartphone processor business to Marvell, after Intel's engineers decided they could eventually shrink the Intel architecture powering the world's PCs into a handheld processor.
The Cortex-A53 is also the world's smallest 64-bit processor.
Mr. Pope became CEO of the world's biggest hog farmer and pork processor in September 2006.
The choice was symbolic of where the world's second-largest card payment processor sees its future.
Available with up to a 2.9GHz processor, the Modbook Pro isthe world's most powerful and largest-screen tablet computer.
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With three international patents pending, the API uses a universal payments interface, meaning that it works with any payment processor, in any currency, in the world.
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The stunning audio and voice performance of the Sound Blaster Recon3D sound cards is powered by Creative's new Sound Core3D, the world's first quad-core sound and voice processor.
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The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
Liberty Reserve had described itself as being the internet's "oldest, safest and most popular payment processor... serving millions all around a world".
"The Pentium 4 processor will be the fastest desktop platform in the world, " Yu promised an audience of software and hardware developers assembled here.
AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.
The Samsung Exynos 5 Dual is the world's first ARM Cortex A-15 Dual Core application processor.
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The F8000 is the world's first Smart LED TV with a quad-core processor, so consumers can toggle between apps, online services and on-air TV quickly and easily without missing a moment of their favorite entertainment.
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Intel's taking its 48-core processor and applying it to a field beyond academia: the world of mobile electronics.
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It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
For the past year, processor manufacturer Intel has confounded investors by finding customers in the developing world that market research firms never saw coming.
Processor design win visibility should increase heading into the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress trade shows.
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As well as being one of the world's largest chipset manufacturers, Via also happens to be an emerging player in the PC processor market, with its own Cyrix III chip.
We had a feeling we'd be hearing about Intel's Atom for smartphones here at Mobile World Congress, and Intel did in fact take the stage today to talk about its forthcoming Medfield 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.
Next from his word processor: The story of an American chasing a renegade SS officer across the wreckage of post-World War II Germany.
Aside from the thrilling world of linear algebra and fluid dynamics that the chipset is currently used for, Intel says it could offload processor-intensive functions across several cores, effectively speeding up various functions (say, video streaming).
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