At the on-going CES 2013 AMD has leaked more details on the upcoming Kabini and Temash APUs – both expected this year. The news is that both platforms will come with four x86 Jaguar cores and will feature a built-in Radeon HD 8000-series graphics core. Temash will target tablet computers and will offer much improved energy efficiency and will offer almost two times high...
Tablets
AMD details Radeon HD 8000M series
10 January 2013 | Notebooks, Tablets
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has officially described its newest line of mobile graphics for tablets and notebooks known as Radeon HD 8000M. The new graphics line consists of Radeon HD 8800M, HD 8700M, HD 8600M and HD 8500M chips with all of them fully supporting DirectX 11.1 and the AMD Graphics Core Next architecture – all on 28 nm technology. The Radeon HD 8500M is the...
Gigabyte announces S-series tablets at CES 2013
10 January 2013 | Tablets
The Taiwanese Gigabyte has come up with two new tablets that belong to the company’s S line. The novelties were unveiled at CES 2013 and are known as S1082 Slate and S1185 with both of them boasting 11.6-inch displays and Windows 8. The Gigabyte S1082 will be available in two different versions. The first one will target everyday users and this is why it will come with a 500 GB hard drive...
Acer introduces Iconia B1 tablet
8 January 2013 | Tablets
CES 2013 has brought another tech gadget to life – Acer’s Iconia B1 budget-oriented 7-inch tablet that has been designed for light tasks and everyday use. The Acer Iconia B1 is built around Mediatek’s MT6577 dual-core processor at 1.2 GHz and PowerVR SGX 531 graphics and sports a display that works at 1024 x 600 pixels. There’s more to it though - 512 MB of RAM, 8...
NVIDIA unveils Tegra 4 processor
8 January 2013 | Featured, Smartphones, Tablets
Graphics chipmaker NVIDIA has officially introduced its fourth generation Tegra processor at the on-going CES 2013 in the USA. Previously known as Wayne, Tegra 4 comes with four ARM Cortex-A15 cores that run at 1.9 GHz but features a fifth simpler core that saves power and handles ordinary tasks. The chip offers GeForce graphics with 72 stream processors and boasts much i...
AMD likely to announce Temash CPUs at CES 2013
3 January 2013 | Tablets
AMD’s intentions to enter the tablet market with new processors will soon become official at CES 2013 next week when the chipmaker is expected to announce a new CPU family, codenamed Temash that has been specifically designed to power tablets. Temash processors will be built on 28 nm technology and will be housed in BGA packaging with dimensions of 24.5 x 24.5 mm with 769 pin...
Archos unveils 97 Titanium HD tablet with Retina display
27 December 2012 | Tablets
French electronics company Archos has enriched its product list with a new tablet that goes by the name of 97 Titanium HD. The big deal here is that users get a 9.7-inch IPS display that works at 2048 x 1536 pixels and offers 264 ppi (pixels per inch) – which are the exact specs of Apple’s Retina display found in the latest iPad tablet. Archos has also tossed a dual-core ARM Co...
Samsung to showcase flexible displays at CES 2013
20 December 2012 | Smartphones, Tablets
It has been known far and wide that the Korean tech giant Samsung has the technology required to create flexible displays and use them in various devices including smartphones and tablets. Such is the case of the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone – now largely expected to become the first ever smartphone with a flexible display. Up until now, however, customers have not seen devi...
NVIDIA to announce Tegra 4 at CES 2013
18 December 2012 | Smartphones, Tablets
The expected NVIDIA Tegra 4 chips will appear at CES 2013 next month, the latest information on the upcoming processors claims. "We think we will announce our [next-generation Tegra] products at CES and our customers will announce their products at MWC," said Chris Evenden, director of investor relations of NVIDIA. Tegra 4 will be available in two versions – Wayne and Grey...
MSI announces 7-inch Enjoy 71 tablet
4 December 2012 | Tablets
The Taiwanese hardware maker MSI has officially announced a new 7-inch tablet that will go by the name of Enjoy 71. The new tablet weighs just 299 grams and measures 191 x 119 x 8.9 mm. Based on a 1.5 GHz dual-core Amlogic 8726-MX ARM Cortex-A9 chip, the system also features an integrated Mali-400 GPU and a 7-inch IPS display that works at 1024 x 600 pixels. There’s...
Microsoft announces Win8 Pro Surface release date, pricing
3 December 2012 | Featured, Tablets
Back in October Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet running Windows RT and promised that customers would soon get a version of the same tablet but this time running Windows 8 Professional. Well, it seems the promise has been held – Microsoft announced that the new Surface running Windows 8 Professional would hit the market sometime in January 2013. So far the new tablet will have t...
