Give the man a chance and he’ll probably invent something truly cool. Per SemiAccurate, former AMD chip architect John Bruno, known for his contribution to the chip maker’s Trinity Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), now lists himself as a “System Architect at Apple” via his LinkedIn profile. While Bruno’s new position has not been officially announced, […]
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You can pick up Windows 8, then begin working on a Halloween costume this year. Per Electronista, it was revealed during Microsot’s annual sales meeting that the company’s next-generation operating system will hit shelves on Oct. 26 meaning new hardware will shortly follow including the Surface tablet. Microsoft’s Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky made good […]
You have to admit: a quad-core ARM processor in your new iPhone would qualify as nifty. Per a Thursday report from DigiTimes, Apple’s next-gen could feature a quad-core processor according to industry sources. Other details on the rumored processor, including clock speed or graphics processing capabilities, were not presented. Last year’s iPhone 4S features a […]
A little competition never hurt anyone. Per Engadget, Microsoft debuted its Surface Windows 8 tablet on Monday at a last-minute special event in Los Angeles, marking the tech monolith’s entrance into the iPad-dominated tablet market. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, showed off the tablet computer based on the company’s new Windows 8 operating system he called […]
This is sort of interesting. An investigation into the custom A5 chip used in Apple TV has found that the new Application Processor uses both a smaller, more efficient 32nm die process and actually incorporates two cores, one of which is simply turned off. Per Chipworks, the custom A5 “APL2498” used in the third generation, […]