Intel has announced Atom E3900 series processor to power Internet of Things (IoT). It features Intel’s ninth-generation graphics engine that improves 3-D graphics performance by 2.9 times over the previous generation and supports three independent displays. Continue reading “Intel Atom E3900 series processor for IoT announced”
The term “budget” is most often related to the cutting down of features,using inferior quality parts or inferior specifications. This is why many users refrain from getting budget devices especially budget laptops that don’t really live up to expectations when it comes to real world performance.
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A few days ago, we got confirmation that the upcoming Meizu PRO 6 smartphone will be powered by the new MediaTek Helio X25 Deca-Core processor. Now, the design of the smartphone as been revealed in leaked presentation slides.
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The Mediatek Helio X20 can claim to being the world’s first 10 core processor and benchmarks have shown that the processor is quite capable. However, it seems that the processor is facing issues with overheating.
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We hope that you have seen our unboxing of the latest smartphone from Lenovo, the Vibe K4 Note. As with our two previous teardowns – the QiKU Q Terra and Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, we decided to do a teardown of the Vibe K4 Note as well for your viewing pleasure.
MediaTek has big things planned for its Helio P10 SoC as it will apparently power 100 smartphones that will be released during 2016. The Helio P10 is a true octa-core CPU based on a 28nm manufacturing process.
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Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon 820A Automotive processor at ongoing CES 2016. There are two versions of the SoC – a standard 820A and an 820Am with LTE modem.
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Up until now, the upcoming update to the Samsung Galaxy A7 was believed to be packing a Snapdragon 615 processor, similar to the first version that was launched earlier this year. Now, a new listing on AnTuTu shows that there could be another version, one that is packing an Exynos 7580 processor.
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A new Huawei handset has popped up on GFXBench under the alias NXT-AL10. The specifications do reveal a handset that is very similar to the rumoured specifications for the upcoming Mate 8 smartphone from Huawei.
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Apple is using the really powerful A9 chipset in the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The chipset is sourced from Samsung and TSMC which are two different manufacturers of chipsets. Apparently, thebattery life of you iPhone 6s or 6s Plus will depend on which chipset your particular phone is running.
There are a few common misconceptions or myths regarding smartphones that many people believe to be true. We take 5 of such cases and explain in detail about what they actually mean.
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Apple just announced the iPhone 6S and the 6S Plus earlier this month, both of which run the new Apple A9 chipset with 64bit architecture. Now, we are already beginning to receive rumors about the next gen Apple A10 processor.
LG had announced NUCLUN Octa-Core processor with four 1.5GHz cores ARM Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A7 cores in October last year. Now, it looks like the company is working on next generation NUCLUN chip that can compete with Samsung’s Exynos 7420.
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An upcoming processor from Huawei which is based on 16nm manufacturing process has surfaced. The processor is reportedly called Kirin 950 and is expected to make its way to devices sometime in September or October.
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Intel has announced the a updated line up of processors at MWC 2015. The chipmaker has launched Atom x3, x5 and x7 chips for smartphones and tablets.
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