Tag: Intel
Intel Introduces Atom Silvermount Mobile Processor
A new mobile processor is about to make its way into the market from Intel which promises to provide up to three times the performance and five times the power efficiency of today’s Atom processor. The company announced this Monday its low-power processor codenamed Silvermount which uses a 22 nanometer process combined with the company’s [...]
Lenovo K900 Goes on Sale in China, P780 with Massive Battery to Follow Soon
Well, look who’s getting serious about leaving a mark in the global smartphone world! It’s Lenovo, one of the world’s leading PC vendors, a company that until recently seemed like it couldn’t care less about mobile phones. By far Lenovo’s most exciting handheld for some time to come is going to be the IdeaPhone K900, [...]
Intel Appoints New CEO
A new CEO of Intel has been appointed they are ex COO (Chief Operating Officer) for Intel Brian Krzanich who was elected by the board of directors, he has taken over from Paul Otellini the old CEO of the company. Mr Krzanich will officially take on the role of CEO on May 16th on the [...]
Coby MID1054 Is One of the World’s First 10-Inch Intel-Powered Android Tablets
When you control a high-value market the way Intel does with the PC chip world for several years now, you need a challenge from time to time to make sure you still “got it”. And the latest and possibly hardest challenge undertaken by the Santa Clara-based company is leaving a mark in the crowded and [...]
Haswell based MacBooks starting production in May
Tim Cook described the next few months for Apple as “quiet”, but he may not have been talking about product launches, instead he meant new products and innovations Apple is currently working on. As for the current line of products, the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, it will be business as usual, [...]
ZTE Announces Intel Atom-Powered ZTE Geek
ZTE has revealed their latest smartphone model that uses an Intel processor rather than the popular ARM processors being used today. Over at the Intel Developers Forum in Beijing, China the company revealed the ZTE Geek that uses a 2GHz Intel 32nm Atom Z2580 processor. This is also the same processor which is used by [...]
Haswell Chip Ships Out But Intel Confirms A Bug
Intel has confirmed that it will start shipping out its most power-efficient mainstream processor to date—the 4th generation core Haswell chip—but the company admitted that there is a bug in the accompanying chipset. A statement sent to the media on Friday said that the new Intel chip, although on track for a mid-year launch, has [...]
Asus to Introduce a High End Intel Smartphone this Summer; Nexus 7 to Come in May
The fight for the high end smartphone market has switched to overdrive with Samsung’s announcement of their next flagship smartphone, S4 last week. The line of what defines a mid-range phone and what features and specs qualify a phone to be a ‘high end’ smartphone is now clear, though unwritten. Asus, you may know them [...]
Asus announces Intel Atom powered Fonepad for $249
We knew ASUS was planning to launch a product called FonePad, a 7-inch tablet with built-in phone functionality (just like the Galaxy Note 8.0 from Samsung). Mobile World Congress 2013 is taking place in Barcelona, and ASUS has finally taken the veil off Fonepad. Fonepad is a relatively affordable 7″ Android Jelly Bean tablet that [...]
Intel to Release Set Top Streaming Box
Turns out the recent rumblings of Intel releasing a media streaming box to compete with the Apple TV and Roku were right. Erik Hugers, Corporate VP and GM of Intel Media announced at D:Drive Into Media 2013 that Intel would in fact be getting into the streaming set top box arena. Like other set top [...]
Acer announces Intel powered Liquid C1 Android Smartphone
Intel is the biggest computer chip manufacturer, but they are pretty much nonexistent in the smartphone industry. Most of the smartphones out there are powered by processors made by one of the partners of ARM, and the most notable reason for that is ARM has lot of manufacturing partners, hence the pricing is competitive. Apart [...]
Motorola Razr i Smartphones in France Get the Jelly Bean Update
Motorola has been in the Android fray for quite some time now. It is popularly known for its Droid series of smartphones particularly on Verizon’s networks. However, of late, the company has lost traction in the market with companies like Samsung, HTC dominating the industry. But Motorola wasn’t going to back out as it introduced [...]
Lava Launches Xolo X500, An Atom Based Android Smartphone
Intel’s Z2420 chip which was featured by the company at CES 2013 is being used in Lava’s second Intel powered smartphone. The device which is called Xolo X500 will be the first such device to use the Atom Lexington Z2420 chip. The company’s first Intel smartphone, the Xolo X900, was released last year and uses [...]
