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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform. Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series, code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards the AI PC with...
HP's TouchPad at MWC 2011
HP stopped by a Qualcomm roundtable discussion to demonstrate the HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad that it recently announced. Mithun covered the webOS event for us but this...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet User Experience
While I was scheduling my Mobile World Congress meetings I got an email request from Intel. It wanted to give me a quick tour of the latest MeeGo UI...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Samsung Intros NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 & New Superphone, Galaxy S II Debuts
Including Apple, we've covered six major players in the high end smartphone SoC space: Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung and Qualcomm. Not all of these six will survive in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Verizon iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewed
After literally years of fruitless rumor, speculation, and waiting, the Verizon iPhone is finally here. It's a CDMA version with almost identical hardware to the GSM/UMTS version which shipped...
35 by Brian Klug on 2/13/2011
The Motorola Atrix 4G Preview
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to join a bunch of NVIDIA employees for dinner. Among those at the table were Michael Toksvig and Tony Tamasi...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Nokia and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
Today Nokia and Microsoft have announced partnership that will collectively leverage Microsoft and Nokia's strengths and resources. Although the fruit of this long-term partnership will primarily affect Windows Phone...
66 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/11/2011
Analysis of HP's event : It's Raining webOS
Today's HP webOS event was all about letting everyone know that webOS is definitely here to stay and HP is putting in massive resources (human and monetary) to ensure...
20 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011
HP Announces TouchPad, Veer and Pre 3: All Powered by Qualcomm
We're here at HP's webOS 2.1 event in San Francisco. HP has announced a couple of big things today; a tablet (HP TouchPad), a (tiny) smartphone (HP Veer) and...
27 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011
TI Reveals OMAP 5: The First ARM Cortex A15 SoC
TI sure does have impeccable timing. Not 12 hours after we published our LG Optimus 2X and NVIDIA Tegra 2 review, complete with a discussion of the 2011 SoC...
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
LG Optimus 2X & NVIDIA Tegra 2 Review: The First Dual-Core Smartphone
2011 is going to be a year dominated by multi-core smartphone launches, but there always has to be a first. So just like that, we have our first example...
75 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
webOS 2.0 Overview
Seeing Palm, one of the pioneers in the PDA space, stagnate towards the end was sad. But in the Linux-based webOS, Palm would find their much needed shot in...
46 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/3/2011
Google's Android Event Analysis
Today's Android event had just one real announcement; the Android Marketplace webstore (which is Live at market.android.com). The rest of it was just a Honeycomb/Motorola Xoom show-and-tell, with various...
23 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/2/2011
[Updated with Gallery!] Google's Android Event, with Honeycomb and more!
We're at Google's Android event here at Mountain View. Sumptuous breakfast aside, we expect Google to talk in-depth about their Honeycomb release, other updates to the Android ecosystem and...
18 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/2/2011
AT Bench Update: Now with Mobile, Smartphone, and GPU 2011 Results!
Since starting our Bench results databases, they've grown by leaps and bounds. Bench is a central place where you can compare products based on the variety of tests and...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/1/2011
This Just In: LG Optimus 2X, Our First Tegra 2 Smartphone
It's been 22 days since we saw the Tegra 2 packing LG Optimus 2X at CES, and just moments ago the device arrived at our doorsteps ready for a...
28 by Brian Klug on 1/27/2011
Tablet Hands-On Roundup
2011 is the Year of the Tablet. With all due respect to the rabbit, who would have otherwise been assigned to this year, I think the tablet has earned...
49 by Vivek Gowri on 1/27/2011
Nokia N8 Review: Nokia's New Flagship
I remember one of the first mobile phones I ever used being a Nokia 5110i. It was among Nokia’s earliest of devices that packed an easy to use and...
119 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 1/12/2011
Understanding the Verizon iPhone 4 Announcement
Earlier today Verizon did what has been rumored for a while now and announced a partnership with Apple beginning with the CDMA iPhone 4. Device pricing remains unchanged from the...
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2011
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