Tag Archives: ARM

Freescale previews Lenovo IdeaPad smartbook made by Pegatron

While we may never get to lay our eyes on the final version of the Lenovo Skylight, Freescale has surprised us with a new Lenovo smartbook put together by Pegatron. Being a smartbook, it has the innards of a typical smartphone running under the hood. This includes an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a memory [...]

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ARM-based Nokia tablet PC with Meego OS on the way?

Nokia was brave enough to put together, announce and release their very own netbook called the Booklet 3G last year. Why not try their luck with a tablet PC as well, right? DigiTimes today is reporting that the Finnish smartphone giant is currently trying to do just that. According to an unidentified Digitimes Research senior [...]

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NVIDIA squashes Tegra 2 delay rumors

NVIDIA has been under a lot of pressure lately to deliver their tablet-oriented Tegra 2 chipset. Lots of manufacturers are depending on the chip maker to get their product out on time so that they can cash in on the impending tablet craze. While a lot of speculation has come out due to this, NVIDIA [...]

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Tegra 2 tablets can do games well

The Tegra platform is the unison of an ARM chip and NVIDIA GPU to enable tablets, netbooks, and smart books to playback HD video and run 3D graphics. Some demo tablets were running this hardware platform during the GDC this week and it looked pretty nice. Granted these slates won’t be running Modern Warfare anytime [...]

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Home run for ARM: 50+ tablets based on ARM CPU this year

Netbooks were the turf of Intel with it’s energy efficient Atom processor beating out the competition. This year, ARM is stepping up to the plate to be the star of the tablet market. A lot of the slate tablets coming out are going to be using ARM CPUs for their internals. It’s a reasonable choice [...]

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