Google has come to have a significant presence in the smartphone arena, thanks to its Nexus line of smartphones. Still, the company is far from being a major hardware player. Rumors have it that Motorola Mobility is now helping Google ready a true iPhone competitor.
South Korean electronics-giant Samsung, a global leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced on Thursday that it reached another milestone in the development of 14nm FinFET process technology with the successful tape-out of multiple development vehicles in collaboration with its key design and IP partners. The new design promises to offer substantial power and performance improvements compared to existing designs.
Seems, Acer is preparing multiple Android Jelly Bean phones ahead of next year’s CES and Mobile World Congress. This past week, two Android phones from Acer has been leaked – first one is the V360 and the second one is V350.
Earlier this week, AMD officially announced that it will unveil four models – the 8500M, 8600M, 8700M and 8800M. All the upcoming members of the Radeon HD 8000M series are based on the GCN architecture and built using TSMC’s 28-nm fab process.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the largest showcases of new technology in the world. The CES 2013, hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association in Las Vegas, is going to be held from Jan 8 to Jan 11. From our reliable source we have come to know that at CES 2013, Samsung may introduce 5.5-inch flexible phone screen.
Given the declining sales in the PC market, Dell had earlier tried to get its foot into the smartphone market. However, the handsets released by the company were an abysmal failure. Since the past few months, it had been rumored that Dell may give the smartphones another shot but the company has firmly denied having any such plans.
Fuhu has taken a number of shots at introducing tablets meant for a niche audience – namely, the young lot, the kids and those in early teens. Whereas the earlier models from the company haven’t gained much traction, it has now dished out Nabi XD, a high-end tablet which costs a mere $250.
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, the world’s fastest growing smartphone chip supplier, has launched the world’s first quad-core system-on-chip (SoC), the MT6589. Its processor is based on ARM’s Cortex-A7 design, the same technology used in Qualcomm’s upcoming quad-core S4 processors.