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Samsung today has announced that they have developed an even faster generation of LPDDR5X memory that is set to top out at LPDDR5X-10700 speeds. The updated memory is slated to offer 25% better performance and 30% greater capacity compared to existing mobile DRAM devices from the company. The new chips also appear to be tangibly faster than Micron's LPDDR5X memory and SK hynix's LPDDR5T chips. Samsung's forthcoming LPDDR5X devices feature a data transfer rate of 10.7 GT/s as well as maximum capacity per stack of 32 GB. This allows Samsung's clients to equip their latest smartphones or laptops with 32 GB of low-power memory using just one DRAM package, which greatly simplifies their designs. Samsung says that 32 GB of memory will be particularly beneficial...
HP's TouchPad at MWC 2011
HP stopped by a Qualcomm roundtable discussion to demonstrate the HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad that it recently announced. Mithun covered the webOS event for us but this...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet User Experience
While I was scheduling my Mobile World Congress meetings I got an email request from Intel. It wanted to give me a quick tour of the latest MeeGo UI...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Samsung Intros NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 & New Superphone, Galaxy S II Debuts
Including Apple, we've covered six major players in the high end smartphone SoC space: Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung and Qualcomm. Not all of these six will survive in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Verizon iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewed
After literally years of fruitless rumor, speculation, and waiting, the Verizon iPhone is finally here. It's a CDMA version with almost identical hardware to the GSM/UMTS version which shipped...
35 by Brian Klug on 2/13/2011
The Motorola Atrix 4G Preview
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to join a bunch of NVIDIA employees for dinner. Among those at the table were Michael Toksvig and Tony Tamasi...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Nokia and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
Today Nokia and Microsoft have announced partnership that will collectively leverage Microsoft and Nokia's strengths and resources. Although the fruit of this long-term partnership will primarily affect Windows Phone...
66 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/11/2011
Analysis of HP's event : It's Raining webOS
Today's HP webOS event was all about letting everyone know that webOS is definitely here to stay and HP is putting in massive resources (human and monetary) to ensure...
20 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011
TI Reveals OMAP 5: The First ARM Cortex A15 SoC
TI sure does have impeccable timing. Not 12 hours after we published our LG Optimus 2X and NVIDIA Tegra 2 review, complete with a discussion of the 2011 SoC...
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
LG Optimus 2X & NVIDIA Tegra 2 Review: The First Dual-Core Smartphone
2011 is going to be a year dominated by multi-core smartphone launches, but there always has to be a first. So just like that, we have our first example...
75 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
webOS 2.0 Overview
Seeing Palm, one of the pioneers in the PDA space, stagnate towards the end was sad. But in the Linux-based webOS, Palm would find their much needed shot in...
46 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/3/2011
AT Bench Update: Now with Mobile, Smartphone, and GPU 2011 Results!
Since starting our Bench results databases, they've grown by leaps and bounds. Bench is a central place where you can compare products based on the variety of tests and...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/1/2011
This Just In: LG Optimus 2X, Our First Tegra 2 Smartphone
It's been 22 days since we saw the Tegra 2 packing LG Optimus 2X at CES, and just moments ago the device arrived at our doorsteps ready for a...
28 by Brian Klug on 1/27/2011
Nokia N8 Review: Nokia's New Flagship
I remember one of the first mobile phones I ever used being a Nokia 5110i. It was among Nokia’s earliest of devices that packed an easy to use and...
119 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 1/12/2011
Understanding the Verizon iPhone 4 Announcement
Earlier today Verizon did what has been rumored for a while now and announced a partnership with Apple beginning with the CDMA iPhone 4. Device pricing remains unchanged from the...
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2011
(Updated: Video and Gallery) Apple's iPhone 4 Coming to Verizon Early Next Month, With Wireless Hotspot
Well, it's official - Verizon is getting the iPhone 4. The Apple/Verizon relationship developed over the last two years. The two companies began technical discussions starting in 2008 about...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2011
BaseMark GUI from RightWare Launches: SoCs Benchmarked
Rightware, makers of MobileMark, BrowserMark, and other mobile benchmarking tools recently launched a new 3D benchmark for mobile devices named BaseMark GUI. BaseMark joins our growing suite of smartphone...
20 by Brian Klug on 1/11/2011
CES 2011: Motorola Xoom & NVIDIA Tegra 2: The Honeycomb Platform
The two biggest announcements at CES 2011? Intel’s Sandy Bridge and pretty much everything NVIDIA talked about at its press conference (as well as the MS Windows 8/ARM announcement...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
Two CES-announced Android Phones: Huawei IDEOS X5 and Sony Xperia Arc
There have been an almost overwhelming number of smartphone launches during this CES - which is definitely a good thing. The whole team has been running around getting hands...
21 by Brian Klug on 1/8/2011
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