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Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, promising a five-fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high-performance routers and servers. Arm’s top executives launched the Cortex-A15 MPCore at a press conference in San Francisco Wednesday evening. [...]

LG Electronics on Tuesday announced a new series of smartphones with next-generation dual-core processors, which should provide a big leap in performance while maintaining device battery life. LG’s new Optimus line will include smartphones running on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual-core chips, which will also allow handsets to play 1080p high-definition video, LG said in a [...]

Samsung has announced a dual-core application processor for tablets PCs, netbooks, and smartphones that will be able to handle 1080p video playback and recording, the company said on Tuesday. The Orion processor contains a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores, and its capabilities give a hint at what we can expect from mobile products [...]

Intel on Monday released a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which the company says will bring improved application and graphics performance to netbooks while retaining long battery life. The Atom N550 processor is a big upgrade from previous processors in an Atom lineup that primarily consisted of single-core chips. The processor will operate at a speed [...]

With the aim of bringing down the price of laptops, Intel on Monday launched a family of low-power processors for thin and light machines that could be more affordable than conventional laptops. The new family of microprocessors will go into laptops around 1-inch (0.08 feet) thick with screen sizes up to 13 inches, and provide [...]

Hewlett-Packard introduced seven laptops with Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming laptop chips on Wednesday, boosting efforts for the chip designer’s efforts to catch up with rival Intel. The new AMD-based ProBook laptops are up to 69 percent faster and offer up to 72 percent more battery life than earlier laptops based on AMD processors, said Joanne [...]

Advanced Micro Devices today released its 12-core chip, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line. One of the key benefits in taking advantage of the performance gains delivered by a chip with a dozen cores may be in reducing software licensing costs. The performance gain of its new [...]

Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said. Laptops today contain either dual-core or quad-core processors, and offering a triple-core CPU could bring laptops that are faster than the dual-core chips but more power-efficient than quad-core processors, said Bob Grim, director of client product [...]