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A user in the leaky Sony forum for their upcoming machines, is confirming the specs we expect for the Odin/Yuga, but throws a few more devices in the mix, if Google's translation is to be trusted...

Yesterday, Qualcomm announced a new SoC for its Snapdragon S4 Play category, the MSM8x26, and alongside it a new transceiver, WTR2605. The announcement was a little light on detail and I waited until confirmation of a few details, but now know more about these two new parts geared at the growing...

For vendors that can't be bothered to design their own chips

Evidence suggests that a Samsung Exynos 5440 is already in the works. This new SoC will be of the quad-core kind and will also utilize Cortex A15 processors...

Samsung’s dual-core Exynos 5 broke cover with the launch of a new Chromebook a few weeks ago. Now, a full suite of Ubuntu benchmarks show the chip as a credible threat to Intel and AMD’s low-power x86 processors in the tablet and netbook space. Nvidia’s Tegra 3 was similarly abused, though Tegra...

At $250 this Samsung Chromebook costs less than most tablets or phones but can outperform previous A9 powered models and the Atom D525 as well. The processor is Samsung's Exynos 5, a dual core A15 chip running at 1.7GHz with ARM's Mali-T604 graphics and is accompanied by 2GB of DDR3 and a 16GB SSD....

Newly-uncovered photos also reveal 'large knob' in frontal lobe Albert Einstein's brain seems to have been packed full of unusually-configured parts that could explain his unusual intelligence, according to a new study by US scholars.…

Earlier this week, ARM revealed details on its next-generation A57 and A53 SoC processors. Successors to the current generation Cortex-A15, the Cortex-A50 series brings the ARM architecture into a 64-bit capable processor that can be used in a much broader range of devices — from smartphones to...

For the past two years, smartphone advances and the tablet market have been driven by ARM’s Cortex-A9. The diminutive mobile processor has proven to be extremely capable, but it’s also getting a bit long in the tooth. Custom chips from Qualcomm and Apple have taken the wind out of A9-based hardware...

Google announced the Chrome OS project two years ago , and with it came the first Chromebook: the CR-48. The Chrome OS concept seemed revolutionary at the time. In 2010 we were well into the latest round of questioning whether today's PCs were fast enough. The Ultrabook revolution hadn't yet begun,...