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  Samsung’s Google TV showcase at the CES was more of a confirmation from the Korean giant that they’re willing to adopt a new TV platform in addition to their proprietary Smart TVs. Now the first technical detail seem to trickle out by way of Bloomberg’s source who claim that Samsung Google TVs will have [...]

  Intel is gearing up to launch new processors targeted at the netbook market. According to Digitimes, Intel is looking to unveil a new set of Atom processors supporting DDR3 memory and a dual-core Atom CPU. The DDR3 supporting processors will be N455, N475 – clear successors of N450 and N470 whereas the dual-core offering [...]

  Intel has officially introduced its next-gen line of Atom processors for netbooks, nettops and AIOs. The platform known as Pine Trail is Intel’s first to integrate graphics and memory controllers onto the CPU die. With graphics, memory controller and CPU integrated together, Intel claims the new processors are smaller – thanks to 45nm manufacturing [...]

  Motherboard manufacturers have apparently spilled the beans on the future plans of Intel. According to them, Intel is planning to launch couple of Celeron, Atom chips and one Core i7 processor. Celeron CPUs will be 45nm based from the E3000 Series running at 2.4GHz (E3200) and 2.5GHz (E3300) respectively. Celeron E3000 Series will mostly [...]

  Intel is planning to release the successor of N270 Atom processor, reports Digitimes. N450 aka Pine Trail is expected to take the helm as early as October from N270 and N280 that power majority of the netbooks currently. Pine Trail CPUs are based on 45nm process and use a 2-chip architecture to integrate graphics [...]

  Intel has tied up with AOC, Gigabyte, iBall and Seagate to bring a nettop that could be assembled by its channel partners under their own brand name. The strategy will make Intel to cash in on the reputation of the channels enjoyed by them in their respective regions. With the device targeted at the [...]

  While we have seen couple of computers running on Android, this is the first time S60 platform has made an appearance on an Atom based computer. Guys at S60 on Symbian Customer Operations (SOSCO) took an off the shelf Atom based motherboard and ported to show S60’s potential. As Symbian itself puts it, they [...]

  At the IDF conference in Beijing which also happens to be the first anniversary of Atom processors, Intel unwrapped Z550 and Z515 processors from the Z Atom series. The Z550 bumps the clock speed to a cool 2GHz with support of Hyperthreading and consuming just under 3 watts of power. On the other hand, [...]

  Intel’s been pushing hard with its Atom processors and the latest leak confirms that the new Atom chip will enable netbooks and the likes to run faster. The Z550 from the Z-Series achieves a clock speed of 2GHz at just 2.4W which is the same even for a 1.86MHz chip. The chip has a [...]

  An interview with a Finnish broadcaster, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo confirmed that they are actively looking to enter the laptop business. The reason for this is the rapid convergence between the computers and mobile phones, making Nokia to move towards the next evolution of phones. The rumors were rife about Nokia’s entrance in the [...]

  Asus has officially announced the new line of Eee PCs. All the new Eee PCs (Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 1000H and Eee PC 901) will run on Intel’s Atom processor, will have the convenience to choose from Windows XP or Linux and even an option of going with SSD or HDD. One of [...]