Samsung Remained Top Vendor as Smartphone Shipments Surged in Q2

From DailyTech: Research company IDC has published its numbers for the mobile phone market for Q2 of 2013. According to the latest numbers, the global mobile phone market grew 6% year-over-year during Q2 of 2013. Phone vendors shipped a total of 432.1 million mobile phones during the...

Nvidia Shows Off Next-Generation Tegra Logan System-on-Chip

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its next-generation Tegra system-on-chip code-named Logan at Siggraph conference this week. The new SoC will feature Kepler architecture graphics core and will therefore support advanced visual effects along with PC application programming...

Android 4.3 to hit Sony Xperia smartphones, tablet

From CNET News.com: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean just spilled out Wednesday, but Sony has already lined up the devices slated to receive Google's latest update.

Sony's Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia SP, and Xperia Z Ultra were confirmed as some of the recipients...

Google Offers $35 Media Streaming Stick Chromecast

From DailyTech: Google introduced a media streaming stick today that allows users to watch videos from services like YouTube and Netflix on their TVs.

The streaming stick is called Chromecast, and it connects to a TV's HDMI input to wirelessly sync with mobile devices or the Chrome...

ARM Beats Profit, Revenue Expectations, but Misses on Margin Growth

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) continues to perform bullishly, pumping its pre-tax profit for the second calendar quarter (ending in June) to £86.6M ($132.4M USD), up 30 percent from Q2 2012.

As the producer of the most-used architecture and instruction set for tablets...

Intel Extends AVX to 512 Bit for Future Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week published details regarding new advanced vector extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) instructions first to be found in the Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” co-processors as well as future microprocessors. The new instructions enables processing of twice the...

Nvidia offers glimpse of powerful, next-gen mobile chip

From CNET News.com: Nvidia will introduce its next-gen graphics processors for mobile computing at a visual computing conference this week.

The new graphics chip technology, dubbed Project Logan, is based on the company's Kepler architecture and proposes to bring workstation-class...

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