Tag Archives: Fabless semiconductor companies

Qualcomm starts testing the Snapdragon 810 chipset

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Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon 810 chipset was announced back in April and as it appears on the AnTuTu benchmark database listing, we know for sure that it is currently undergoing some testing. The...

Qualcomm Acquires ‘WiGig Pioneer’ Wilocity

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We are already quite impressed by the high-speed, wireless networking belt of Qualcomm and now it has added a new tool and if this newest purchase of the company really turns out well, then we should...

Alienware’s Alpha Is The Real Deal

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A funny thing happened on the road between CES 2014 and E3 2014: Alienware went from showcasing a console-esque Steam Machine with unknown internals, to showing a legitimate living room PC with the...

Microsoft Surface Mini to Use Qualcomm Chips

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Microsoft is reportedly going to shift its chip supplier from Nvidia to Qualcomm for its new smaller version of Surface tablets. Microsoft is said to launch new Surface models on May 20 at a media...

Radeon R9 295×2 Review: AMD Delivers With Exciting Liquid-Cooled GPU

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“We won’t make the same thermal mistakes again.” An AMD executive uttered this promise — and did so quite passionately — to me weeks ago, way before whispering a word about the Radeon 295X2 to the...

Snapdragon 810 and 808 64-bit chipsets unveiled by Qualcomm

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In what appears to be an important announcement for the next year, Qualcomm has taken the veil off of its Snapdragon 810 and 808. These new chipsets are certain to make their way to the upcoming...

Imagination Technologies Says Wearable Boom Will Vindicate Its Risky Expansion

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It’s over a year since Imagination Technologies (LON:IMG) trespassed into ARM’s territory, through the bullish $100 million acquisition of the mobile CPU designer MIPS. Back then I argued that...

Exclusive: AMD’s Matt Skynner Talks New Crytek Partnership, Mantle’s ‘Beacon Of Leadership’

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When I last spoke with AMD’s Matt Skynner (Corporate VP and GM of Graphics Business Unit) in September 2013, he didn’t sound quite this elated. Then again, the Sunnyvale company hadn’t yet...

Microsoft will announce the DirectX 12 on March 20 at the GDC event

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On match 20th, game developers will be looking closely at the next version of Microsoft's graphics API se at the Game Developer Conference (GDC). Though Microsoft has decided not to reveal so much...

Microsoft:Preparing New Version of DirectX

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Last year AMD debuted a new application programming interface (API) called Mantle alongside their new Hawaii GPU architecture. Primarily designed to run on discrete Radeon graphics cards and their...