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HTC Endeavour Specs Confirmed via Leaked RUU

HTC Endeavour, the yet unannounced HTC handset that made it to the headlines as HTC Edge last year, is expected to become the first quad-core smartphone from the Taiwanese mobile phone maker.   There have been a variety of rumors on its availability and hardware specs, and many have just been confirmed cour...

13 February 2012
02:52 GMT

HTC Endeavour (Edge) to Be the World’s First Quad-Core Smartphone

In two weeks’ time, the first smartphones in the world to pack quad-core application processors will be unveiled, and HTC is expected to make official the very first of them. Rumor has it that the Taiwanese handset vendor will launch its quad-core HTC Endeavour smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelo...

11 February 2012
05:15 GMT

LG Promises Revolutionary Smartphones for the MWC 2012

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is gearing up for the release of a series of great new devices later this month, during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The handset vendor has already started to send out invitations for the launch event, which will be held in Barcelona on February 27th. Whi...

11 February 2012
02:52 GMT

The iPad 3 Doesn’t Have a Quad-Core CPU, Sources Say

Sources talking to The Verge about the latest iPad 3 leaks say the new Apple tablet will deliver pretty much everything that’s been rumored, save for a quad-core CPU. People who are allegedly familiar with the next-generation iPad are telling the publication that Apple has ordered a double resolution display &...

9 February 2012
08:47 GMT

Nvidia Confirms Quad-Core Smartphones for MWC 2012

This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, will mark a new step in the evolution of the smartphone market. The first quad-core handsets in the world will be unveiled at the event, and they will pack Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. The chipmaker has long promised the availability of smartphones ...

9 February 2012
05:26 GMT

Galaxy S III to Be Incredibly Thin When Launched in May

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of a new flagship device in the Galaxy S line, supposedly called Galaxy S III. The smartphone did make it to the headlines a few times before, but some more info on it is now available, complemented by details on its possible release. Apparent...

7 February 2012
08:41 GMT

This May Be Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet SoC, Exynos 5450

According to PhoneArena, Samsung is preparing more than the still unannounced Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip. In fact, the company is building something called the Exynos 5450, a quad-core platform operating at 2GHz (the cores themselves are Cortex-A15). The report also mentions the Mali-658 as the graphics processing ...

1 February 2012
11:29 GMT

Image of Quad-Core-Powered LG X3 Emerges

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics was the first handset vendor in the world to launch a smartphone powered by a dual-core application processor. Apparently, it is also set to be one of the first to release quad-core handsets, and the first of these has just emerged. 2012 is expected to prove the year ...

20 January 2012
11:21 GMT

Adlink MXE-5300 In-Vehicle Fanless PCs Pack Intel Quad-Core CPUs

Adlink, a company specialized in the development of embedded computer systems, has just announced the introduction of a new series of compact PCs based on Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs that were specially designed for fanless operation and in-vehicle applications.Users going for Adlink’s new MXE-5300 series c...

19 January 2012
04:45 GMT

HTC’s Quad-Core Edge to Be Renamed HTC Endeavor

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to unveil to the world its first quad-core smartphones as soon as next month. Among these devices, we should see an HTC Edge smartphone, some of the previous rumors on the matter suggested. We all knew that “Edge” was only a codename for the ha...

18 January 2012
10:14 GMT

Intel Atom CPU Going Quad-Core in 2013

As ARM is continuing its push on the computer market, Intel has begun to step up its own game, apparently going as far as increasing the core number on its low-end processors. Even though 2012 has only just begun, there are already rumors about what may or may not happen in 2013. Intel is the subject of the latest...

5 January 2012
02:40 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S III Concept Device Emerges

Samsung already has two successful Galaxy S devices available on shelves, and the company is expected to launch new ones as soon as next year. Following Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, the next flagship Android model from the handset vendor is expected to be the Samsung Galaxy S III. The phone was rumored before, but no s...

24 December 2011
03:05 GMT

Intel Core i7-3820X Quad-Core Chip Teased Online

As Advanced Micro Devices prepares its graphics cards and is taken by surprise when Microsoft publishes incomplete Bulldozer hotfixes, Intel is readying some central processors, like the Core i7-3820. Intel is definitely not done with the Sandy Bridge-E series of central processing units (CPUs). After all, it wou...

19 December 2011
02:55 GMT

Samsung's Exynos 4412 to Pack Quad Cores Clocked at 1.5GHz

Samsung is reportedly gearing up for the release of their first quad-core application processor for the smartphone market, and rumor has it that the new chip will arrive on the market as Exynos 4412. Following the release of a new dual-core application processor, namely Exynos 4212, the handset vendor has published ...

21 November 2011
08:41 GMT

HTC to Bring Quad-Core Smartphone and Tablet PC to the MWC 2012

Next year's Mobile World Congress has been long rumored to be the place where the first smartphones to pack quad-core application processors would debut, and it seems that things have been confirmed on the matter once again. Nothing is officially announced on this for the time being, but next year Taiwanese m...

14 November 2011
08:51 GMT

HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung to Launch Quad-Core Smartphones in 2012

Nvidia has just taken the wraps off its Tegra 3 quad-core application processor, which promises impressive performance capabilities for mobile devices that would range from tablet PCs to high-end smartphones. Actually sporting five cores, since Nvidia also counts the GPU as an additional core for the chip, Kal-El ...

9 November 2011
15:41 GMT

Nvidia Tegra 3 to Enable Next-Gen Mobile Gaming

Nvidia has just unveiled a ton of details on their quad-core Tegra 3 application processor for mobile devices, and also delivered some demonstrations of its capabilities, noting that users will benefit from a great experience when playing games of phones or tablets that are powered by this chip. In the video embedd...

9 November 2011
06:11 GMT

New Glowball Demo with Nvidia Tegra 3 Available

Nvidia has just announced the availability of their Nvidia Tegra 3 application processor for mobile devices, none other that the popular quad-core Kal-El chip, and also made available new video demonstration with it. Coming as part two of the Glowball demo that was published several months ago, the new clip is mean...

9 November 2011
01:30 GMT

HTC Edge to Sport 720p Display with Optical Lamination

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to be among the first vendors to come to the market with quad-core smartphones next year, and the recently leaked HTC Edge might become the very first such device from the company. The smartphone emerged on the web yesterday, and a new waves of details on what...

8 November 2011
12:41 GMT

Qualcomm: Quad-Core Mobile CPUs in 2012, Up to 2.5GHz in Speed

Nvidia will bring to the market their first quad-core application processor for mobile devices as soon as this year (the already announced Kal-El, or Tegra 3 chip), yet it seems that rival companies will make a similar move soon as well. Qualcomm has already unveiled plans to step into the area, and has recently con...

17 September 2011
07:05 GMT

No Green Light for Quad-Core Smartphones This Year

Before the end of the ongoing year, we should be able to see on the market the first mobile devices packing quad-core application processors, but they won't be smartphones, it seems. Nvidia is the company to supply the said chips, and their President and Chief Executive Officer, Jen-Hsun Huang, has just con...

7 September 2011
15:11 GMT

NVIDIA Plans Quad-Core Tablets as It Speaks of Finances

Leaks and reports have been buzzing with what NVIDIA may or may not be planning to do on the tablet and smartphone market, but the company itself has now spoken up on the matter, exhibiting something akin to eagerness even. Though its existence on the mainstream and low-end graphics segments is being threatened b...

7 September 2011
05:10 GMT

Creative Ups the Ante with Quad-Core Sound Cards

Creative has already released a bunch of audio and multimedia products, but it really is set to make its mark with this new line of sound cards, based on the quad-core Sound Core3D audio processor. Creative proudly announced the completion of its newest audio processor, one Sound Core3D, which has four cores and allo...

2 September 2011
06:49 GMT

Amazon's Nvidia Kal-El Powered Tablet to Start Mass Production in Q1 2012

Amazon seems to be making great progress with its 10-inch tablet powered by Nvidia's Kal-El system-on-a-chip (SoC) as reports suggest the company will start mass producing these devices as soon as the first quarter of 2012. According to information uncovered by the DigiTimes publication, the company has already...

31 August 2011
16:41 GMT

Quad-Core Intel Core i7-2670QM Bound for September

A new report has made its way to the web, one which states that a previously unknown Intel CPU from the Core series will find its way to stores before next month is over and done with.The folks over at CPU World are living up to their website's name, having stumbled upon information pointing towards the likelih...

19 August 2011
03:39 GMT

AMD FM1 Platform Gets First Non-APU Member, Athlon II X4 631

AMD has already made an impression with tis new APUs, but it took things further when it showed that the FM1 processor lineup has expended beyond 'just' units with integrated GPUs.The past couple of days have been busy for the Sunnyvale, California-based processing and graphics product developer. ...

18 August 2011
03:05 GMT

AMD Officially Intros Triple-Core and Quad-Core A-Series APUs

Advanced Micro Devices decided it was time for its collection of processors to welcome the newest A-Series APUs, so it went ahead and updated the price lists and  product pages with three new units.As some may or may not have learned, Advanced Micro Devices announced quite a short time ago that it had shipped t...

18 August 2011
02:31 GMT

Quad-Core Chips Used in Half of All Notebooks

Analysts have once again looked at the notebook market, and it looks like the findings suggest a significant increase in the standard performance of mainstream machines compared to previous years.The laptop market is one that has grown substantially ever since the first mobile computers were developed and sent out i...

13 July 2011
09:52 GMT

Qualcomm to Launch Quad-Core Application Processors Soon

Leading chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled at Computex 2011 in Taipei this week that it would soon come to the market with quad-core application processors for mobile devices.The company's Snapdragon processors are already highly popular among mobile phone users, and it seems that they should soon be able to appe...

2 June 2011
14:11 GMT

Qualcomm Quad-Core Processors Will Support Windows 8

Some may have heard that Qualcomm will soon release a new batch of application processors for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), and it looks like they will have support for a certain OS not usually found on such items.Qualcomm has been collaborating with Microsoft for a while, and it looks like this has affecte...

2 June 2011
08:48 GMT

Nvidia's Kal-El Quad-Core Mobile CPU in New Demo, Glowball

Nvidia, the popular graphics chip maker, announced several months ago the launch of a new application processor aimed at mobile devices, packing quad-cores and called Kal-El.This next-generation Tegra chip was the very first quad-core CPU announced for mobiles, and a demonstration of its capabilities is available in...

30 May 2011
02:44 GMT

VIA Brings Dual-Core and Quad-Core Chips to Computex

While VIA might not be ready to start powering smartphones just yet, it looks like its CPU platforms have definitely been evolving, to the point where Computex might just see some dual-core and quad-core implementations. Being one of the biggest technology trade shows of the year, it stands to reason that Compute...

19 May 2011
02:53 GMT

Tegra 3-Based Ice Cream Device in the Works, Nvidia CEO Suggests

Google is readying the release of a new flavor of Android for the end of the ongoing year, and some more info on what the devices that would run under it might pack inside emerged. During its Q1 earnings call, Nvidia confirmed that its next-gen Tegra chip would most certainly power some of the new devices runnin...

14 May 2011
04:37 GMT

VIA Intros Its First Quad-Core Processor

Earlier this year, VIA has introduced its first dual-core processor, the Nano X2, and now the company is quickly following on the footsteps of this CPU with a new chip which packs four computing cores and is known as the VIA QuadCore L2400. Just as Intel's first quad-core chips based on the Penryn architectur...

12 May 2011
02:58 GMT

Nokia W10 Concept Device, What Windows Phones Might Become

We already had a look at another Nokia concept device today, the Nokia X10, and now is time to enjoy the view of yet another one, the Nokia W10, which is based on the Windows Phone operating system. This is not the first Nokia Windows Phone concept we lay our eyes on, but seems to be by far one of the most appealing...

11 May 2011
16:31 GMT

Nokia X10 Symbian Concept Phone Packs Quad-Core CPU

Hot on the heels of the emergence of few pieces of info regarding the next Symbian release, supposedly called Belle, we can also have a look at the first Nokia concept phone that would be based on it. Called Nokia X10, the device should pack a 2 GHz Quad-Core Processor, complemented by 2 GB RAM and a powerful GPU, m...

11 May 2011
12:01 GMT

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Is Weak

Advanced Micro Devices may have just launched a new so-called flagship processor, but it looks like its prowess was found lacking by some, even though it is supposed to be one of, if not the fastest AMD quad-core CPU to date. While a chip maker might unleash what it calls a chip more powerful that those before it, s...

3 May 2011
10:53 GMT

Alleged Photos of Motorola Quad-Core Prototype Surface

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is reportedly gearing up for the release of new, highly appealing devices, being ready to once more conquer the mobile market.Among the handsets that would help the company do so, we can count quad-core-packing smartphones, which should make an official appearance sometime toward...

26 April 2011
05:27 GMT

Motorola's Quad-Core Smartphones, Bullet and Jet

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to be among the first companies in the world to come to the market with quad-core application processors inside, some of the latest rumors around the Internet suggest. According to the news, the new devices should arrive on shelves as Motorola Bullet and Jet, whil...

23 April 2011
12:01 GMT

AMD Prepares Athlon II X4 650 CPU for Q2 2011 Launch

While everybody is keenly awaiting AMD to release the first Bulldozer and Llano processors to market, the Sunnyvale-based company is hard at work developing new processors built on the current Daneb and Propus architectures and one of these upcoming CPUs is the Athlon II X4 650 which is expected to arrive in a few we...

11 April 2011
15:21 GMT

Five A-Series Llano Fusion APUs from AMD Set for July

Advanced Micro Devices doesn't have mainstream Fusion processors on sale yet, but it plans to unleash its first batch in July, a collection that will include five models with two or four cores each. Advanced Micro Devices may finally be dealing in its long-awaited Fusion chips and chipsets, but its APUs (acc...

16 March 2011
03:35 GMT

Nvidia Expects Quad-Core Smartphones on Shelves by Christmas

Forget single-core 1GHz+ smartphones available at the moment on the market. Forget dual-core handsets as well, even if today's headlines are filled with them. Before Christmas, the first quad-core mobile phones should already be available for purchase, following the unveiling of the first quad-core mobile proce...

17 February 2011
09:46 GMT

Qualcomm Intros 2.5GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon CPU

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Qualcomm Incorporated brought to the spot light a new, quad-core Snapdragon processor, aimed at powering the next generation tablet PCs and mobile devices. The quad-core APQ8064 CPU is said to be the flagship device in the new family of Snapdragon chipsets, based on ...

14 February 2011
05:16 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-Core CPU Clocked at 1.5GHz

NVIDIA's Tegra 2 application processor might be the hot topic of the day, but it might soon be shadowed by its already rumored successor, the NVIDIA Tegra 3, a quad-core mobile chipset expected to make an official appearance no later than next month.According to some of the latest rumors on NVIDIA's SoC (S...

24 January 2011
11:13 GMT

Intel Uses Quad-Core CPUs in First Sandy Bridge Laptops

There has been much talk and speculation on what shape the first Sandy Bridge demo will take, and it seems that things are finally becoming clear now that Intel has declared its intention to promote quad-core models before all the others.As end-users know, Sandy Bridge have been portrayed as a revolutionary step in ...

17 December 2010
05:00 GMT

NVIDIA Says Quad-Core Smartphones Will Come Soon

NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipset is currently the most wanted dual-core solution for high-end devices out there, with a nice series of smartphones or tablets running under Android already announced or rumored to be on their way to the market with this chip inside.The chip includes two ARM Cortex A9 CPU cores, along wit...

2 December 2010
03:43 GMT

7.13 GHz Is the Speed of an Overclocked AMD Phenom II X4 975BE

It appears that a strong system assembly, liquid nitrogen and a lot of nerves of steel were able to push a certain central processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices well above the 7 GHz mark.Overclocking feats are not exactly news in themselves on the central processing unit market.Granted, when Intel and AMD firs...

29 November 2010
05:39 GMT

New Marvell Quad-Core CPU Is Aimed at HPC and Servers

After a fairly long time during which ARM stated its intention to power processors aimed at the enterprise market, Marvell seems to have finally turned this goal into a reality with the ARMADA XP.So far, the x86 architecture has practically owned not just the consumer, but the enterprise market as well.This is quite...

8 November 2010
08:55 GMT

Faster AMD Six-Core Chips Coming in Time for the Holidays

With all the fuss about the Sandy Bridge chips that Intel is preparing, AMD decided to make its own move, at least on the enthusiast market, even before those CPUs have a chance to come out.While preparing its Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units) to do battle with the Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, AMD has been work...

5 November 2010
10:56 GMT

Intel Sandy Bridge Chips Enter Mass Production

While they won't actually become available in the market for some time yet, the Sandy Bridge series of central processing units from Intel has reportedly already entered mass production stage, with revenue units slated for Q4.The Sandy Bridge series of CPUs will be superior to the current core series not just i...

13 October 2010
10:56 GMT


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