Smartphones are becoming brainiacs: Samsung unveils an 8-core mobile processor

The new Exynos 5 Octa will go up against new chips from Nvidia and Qualcomm.

Nvidia launches its long-awaited Tegra 4 mobile processor for blazing-fast tablets

The chip promises to enable great mobile games as well as cool photography applications.

ARM-based OpenStack: it’s like an army of cell phones powering cloud-based computing

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 …