Samsung's new Orion processor brings dual-core power to phones
Samsung already has a plenty powerful mobile CPU with its Hummingbird processor — the brains behind its Android-powered Galaxy S line of phones — but today the company has announced it has even bigger plans for next year: A low-powered dual-core processor, dubbed Orion, with powerful 3D and video capabilities.
The processor combines two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at 1 gigahertz to create a computing powerhouse. Samsung says it provides 5 times the 3D … Continue Reading
AMD unveils its Bulldozer and Bobcat processors for future PCs
As Intel is busy moving into the software business with its $7.68 billion purchase of McAfee, Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wraps off its newest processor designs, Bulldozer and Bobcat, which it hopes will give a one-two punch at Intel’s core business.
At the Hot Chips conference today at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., AMD will describe its new processor cores, which are the brains of computer chips. AMD will take the cores … Continue Reading
