Apparently mobile is the next big thing. What a shock.
In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.
Could Intel be Samsung's successor for building Apple's mobile chips?
While the $35 Raspberry Picomputer gets a lot of kudos for being a cheap way to get into hardware hacks, Texas Instruments' $13 Stellaris LaunchPad could soon take the spotlight.
AMD is teaming up with ARM to deliver 64-bit server chips.
Apple's iPod Touch is actually far less powerful than we thought.
Apple's new A6 processor is hitting the iPhone 5, but the older A5X is going into the new iPod Touch. Which processor is better for gaming?
RackSpace, HP, Canonical, and other OpenStack members are combining forces to build what they say will be the first-ever ARM processor-based cloud. The goal is to build an extremely efficient, powerful, but inexpensive cloud with low power consumption.
“The explosion …
Microsoft has finally shed some light on the different versions of Windows 8 we’ll see upon release, and thankfully, things are much simpler than past versions.
This time around, there are only three flavors Microsoft is pushing heavily: Windows 8, …
Bluestacks’ grand vision of letting you run Android apps on Windows is one step closer to reality. The company today has released a free beta version of its software, which now supports most of Android’s 450,000 apps.
The new release …
Microsoft’s plan to bring Windows to ARM chips has been a curious endeavor, mainly because the company hasn’t offered up many specifics about how the new version of Windows will differ from the traditional x86 and 64-bit versions of the …
Apple has long been rumored to be working on porting the Mac OS X operating system to run on ARM chips, a move that could help it gain independence from chip maker Intel.
Some interesting evidence that such work is …
Nvidia is forging ahead with its plans to revolutionize supercomputers and workstations with a number of announcements today. Among them, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center will be the first in the world to adopt a solution that combines Nvidia’s low-power ARM-based …
Ushering in the era of low-power servers, Austin, Texas-based Calxeda is today announcing its EnergyCore ARM-based processor, the first ever chip capable of running an entire server at a mere 5 watts.
The EnergyCore server-on-a-chip uses 90 percent less power …
Clarifying some confusion from earlier this week, Microsoft has made it clear that Windows 8 tablets and notebooks running ARM processors won’t be able to run apps from the x86 (running Intel and AMD CPUs) version of the OS.
The …
Intel has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to graphics chip maker Nvidia in a new six-year patent license agreement. The deal represents a huge sea change in the future of the chip industry.
The payment is a huge win for …
Microsoft showed that the next version of its Windows software will run on ARM-based computers, in addition to the traditional Intel-based machines.
Rumors of the ARM compatibility surfaced last month, signaling a fracture in the Wintel alliance between Microsoft and …
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced today that Nvidia has been working for some time on Project Denver, a high-performance ARM microprocessor. He didn’t specifically say that this ARM chip would run Windows, but he showed a headline that said …
When it comes to cell phone chips, ARM has been virtually unchallenged. Intel has been trying for a few years to break into the market. But now yet another challenger is entering the fray.
MIPS Technologies is announcing this week …
