GlobalFoundries partners up with ARM
AMD and Intel may share dominion over the x86 microprocessor market, but in the mobile and embedded world, ARM rules. That makes GlobalFoundries' new alliance with the British intellectual property firm quite a major event. GlobalFoundries and ARM Holdings say they have signed "a broad agreement on processor implementation...
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Microsoft Pink phones may never ship
Apparently, we weren't the only ones unimpressed with those leaked images of purported Microsoft Pink handsets. As MobileCrunch reports, the devices may never actually see the light of day. The site got a whole laundry list of issues with the project from a single, anonymous source that's supposedly...
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Mac penetration rising, especially in affluent households
Macs are growing in popularity, but they tend to cohabitate with other systems and devices more than PCs, according to a new NPD study quoted by AppleInsider. The study says Mac penetration in U.S. households has increased from 9% last year to 12% in 2009, yet a whopping 85%...
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Gateway preps 11.6'', Core 2 Duo-powered tablet
After the tablet PC and the nettablet, we could soon start seeing some consumer-ultraportable tablets. At least, Engadget has posted specifications and photos of an upcoming Gateway tablet PC that may very well have consumer ultra-low-voltage (CULV) guts. Engadget says the Gateway EC18T will have an 11.6" display, a...
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Flash 10.1 has GPU acceleration, beta coming this year
At last! The days of YouTube and Hulu videos raising CPU utilization through the roof may soon come to an end. Adobe has announced that the next major release of Flash will take advantage of dedicated graphics hardware to accelerate video and graphics rendering. A public beta of the new...
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Latest Nvidia drivers raise performance, fix bugs
Time for a driver update, GeForce owners. Nvidia has released a new set of drivers that improves performance for a handful of games, fixes bugs, and broadens SLI support to new titles. The new 191.07 release is available through this page for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP...
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