Popularity Of Chinese Chipmakers Rockchip And Allwinner Are Growing Among OEMs Outside China

(GSM Insider) - Popularity Of Chinese Chipmakers Rockchip And Allwinner Are Growing Among OEMs Outside China. Rockchip and Allwinner are the chipmakers that based in China. But these two companies already set their sights to expand further outside China.  According to Digitimes, Allwinner shipped more than 50 million chips in 2012 and 70% were supplied to the markets outside China. This is an impressive achievement from...

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Snapdragon 800 Able To Beat Tegra 4 Easily, According To Qualcomm Senior VP

(GSM Insider) - Snapdragon 800 Able To Beat Tegra 4 Easily, According To Qualcomm Senior VP. Recently, the benchmark of Tegra 4 has surfaced and revealed that it scored more than 35,000 points at the benchmark tests while HTC One with Snapdragon 600 Series only scored 22,000 points. Looks like the Snapdragon 600 isn't the competitor of Tegra 4. But Qualcomm has an answer for NVIDIA. Qualcomm Senior VP of product development, Raj...

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Qualcomm And MediaTek Discontinue Development Of 8-Core Mobile Processor

(GSM Insider) - Qualcomm And MediaTek Discontinue Development Of 8-Core Mobile Processor. Samsung is the only mobile processor manufacturer that introduced the 8-core processor to date. It is the Exynos 5 Octa. Instead of rolling out 8-core processor, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and MediaTek continue to introduce quad-core processors.  Tegra 4 is the latest processor from NVIDIA while Qualcomm has Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 that...

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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Blows Away Snapdragon 600 And Exynos 4412 In Multiple Benchmark Tests

(GSM Insider) - NVIDIA Tegra 4 Blows Away Snapdragon 600 And Exynos 4412 In Multiple Benchmark Tests. NVIDIA Tegra 4 isn't powerful? At least the benchmark results showed that the Tegra 4 is more powerful than the red hot Snapdragon 600 from Qualcomm.  When NVIDIA launched the Tegra 4, it's being described as the world's fastest mobile processor. Of course during that time, the Snapdragon 600, Snapdragon 800 and Exynos 5 Octa...

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Qualcomm Officially Announces Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400, Chipsets For Low End Market

(GSM Insider) - Qualcomm Officially Announces Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400, Chipsets For Low End Market. Qualcomm officially ditched the "S-Series" from its mobile processor. No more Snapdragon S5 after the Snapdragon S4 Pro. New series being introduced for the System on Chip (SoC) for this year.  On last month, Qualcomm announced the "insanely fast" Snapdragon 800 and Snapdragon 600. LG Optimus G Pro and HTC One are two...

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The First Tegra 4 Powered Smartphone Is From..... ZTE

(GSM Insider) - The First Tegra 4 Powered Smartphone Is From..... ZTE. NVIDIA unveiled the Tegra 4 at the CES 2013 last month and it has been labelled as the world's fastest mobile processor. Since it is the world's fastest then which OEM is the first to use the Tegra 4? The answer is Chinese manufacturer, ZTE.  According to latest sources, ZTE will launch its Tegra 4 smartphone soon. The smartphone is said to be among...

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ST-Ericsson To Demo 3GHz NovaThor L8580 Chipset At MWC 2013

(GSM Insider) - ST-Ericsson To Demo 3GHz NovaThor L8580 Chipset At MWC 2013. Earlier last month, ST-Ericsson unveiled its latest quad-core chipset: NovaThor L8580. It is a new system on a chip (SoC) from ST-Ericsson. According to sources, the NovaThor L8580 set to make its appearance at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. It is a good time for the OEMs to have a closer look on the NovaThor L8580 chipset. The NovaThor...

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NVIDIA Officially Unveils Tegra 4i, SoC With Integrated 4G LTE Chip

(GSM Insider) - NVIDIA Officially Unveils Tegra 4i, SoC With Integrated 4G LTE Chip. At the CES 2013, NVIDIA unveiled the Tegra 4 mobile processor. NVIDIA labelled it as the world's fastest mobile processor. At the same time, NVIDIA also confirmed that it will announce a new 4G LTE SoC. Finally, the 4G LTE SoC is here.  NVIDIA officially announces the Tegra 4i which is known as the 1st Integrated Tegra 4 LTE processor....

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Marvell Unveils Latest Single Chip Quad-Core Mobile Processor For Smartphones And Tablets - Marvell PXA1088

(GSM Insider) - Marvell Unveils Latest Single Chip Quad-Core Mobile Processor For Smartphones And Tablets - Marvell PXA1088. Chip maker Marvell officially announces its latest mobile processor with the name of Marvell PXA1088. It is a single chip quad-core mobile processor. This Marvell PXA1088 supported HSPA+, TD-HSPA+ and the EDGE.  Press release about Marvell PXA1088 at below: Santa Clara, California (February 19, 2013)...

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NVIDIA CEO Confirms Tegra 4 Is Arriving On Second Quarter Of This Year

(GSM Insider) - NVIDIA CEO Confirms Tegra 4 Is Arriving On Second Quarter Of This Year. It has been a month since the Tegra 4 was officially announced by NVIDIA. Many people might ask why no Tegra 4 devices in the market yet. The answer is NVIDIA isn't ship any Tegra 4 processor to OEMs yet. The NVIDIA Tegra 4 will not arrive on the first quarter of this year. So you won't see any Tegra 4 device in this one and a half month. According...

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MediaTek Aims To Ship 200 Million Chips This Year, First Tablet Chip On Q3

(GSM Insider) - MediaTek Aims To Ship 200 Million Chips This Year, First Tablet Chip On Q3. A few days ago, MediaTek announced its financial performance together with the expectations for this year. It expects to sell 200 million chips in this year alone. The main customers of these 200 million chips are Chinese smartphone makers. For the 200 million chips, 20% to 25% is for TD-SCDMA devices, 40% to 50% are for WCDMA devices while...

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Qualcomm APQ8084 With Adreno 420 GPU Is A Real Monster, Launching At CES 2014?

(GSM Insider) - Qualcomm APQ8084 With Adreno 420 GPU Is A Real Monster, Launching At CES 2014?. Last month, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 800 and Snapdragon 600 at the CES 2013. If you think the Snapdragon 800 is very powerful then you are wrong as more powerful mobile processors coming soon from Qualcomm. Of course, the technology keeps on improving everyday. The Snapdragon 800 already sufficient for the current usage it considers...

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OEMs Prefer Processors From Qualcomm And MediaTek Than NVIDIA's Tegra 4

(GSM Insider) - OEMs Prefer Processors From Qualcomm And MediaTek Than NVIDIA's Tegra 4. Look like 2013 will be a difficult year for NVIDIA as its Tegra 4 facing stiff competition from other mobile processor makers.  According to Digitimes, NVIDIA is struggling to compete with Qualcomm, MediaTek and other Chinese based processor makers. Not Asus, not Acer and not LG that is taking the Tegra 4. It's the Toshiba. Asus and Acer...

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 Is The Best Mobile Processor Of 2012

(GSM Insider) - Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 Is The Best Mobile Processor Of 2012. Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 mobile processor is popular among Android and Windows Phone devices. According to research company, The Linley Group awarded the Best Mobile Processor of 2012 to Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 MSM8960.  Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 was launched in 2011. It is a dual-core mobile processor that is based on Krait dual-core architecture and...

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The First Image of Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Processor Revealed

(GSM Insider) - The First Image of Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Processor Revealed . Samsung Exynos 5 Octa is probably the mobile processor that's getting the most attention in recently after it was launched at the CES 2013. Samsung Exynos 5 “Octa” with the name of “Octa” in it, it is able to bring more attention compare to other processor like Snapdragon 800 and Tegra 4 that were announced at the same event. The name Samsung Exynos...

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Exynos 5410 Is The Product Number For Exynos 5 Octa

(GSM Insider) - Exynos 5410 Is The Product Number For Exynos 5 Octa. When Samsung officially unveiled the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, there must be many Samsung fans that interested to know what is the product number of this Octa-core processor. Finally, the answer was unveiled at the Twitter. According to an official Twitter account of Samsung Exynos, the product number of Samsung Exynos 5 Octa is known as the Samsung Exynos 5410. It...

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CES 2013 Wrap-Up - List of New Smartphones, Tablets and Gadgets That You Need To Know

(GSM Insider) - CES 2013 Wrap-Up - List of New Smartphones, Tablets and Gadgets That You Need To Know. With the CES 2013 closed the curtain two days back, it successfully brought so many new smartphones and tablets for us. For the the smartphones and tablets, some were new devices and some were not new devices as they were launched earlier before in its domestic country. GSM Insider Best Smartphone of CES 2013 is the Sony Xperia...

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