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Tag Archives: NVIDIA
Microsoft Surface with some questions about the performance and smoothness of the experience
Update: Upstream supply chain sees Surface RT orders cut by half [DIGITIMES, Nov 28, 2012] The upstream supply chain of Microsoft’s Surface RT has recently seen the tablet’s orders reduced by half, and with other Windows RT-based tablet orders also … Continue reading
Posted in consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, SoC, tablets
Tagged 28nm, advanced manufacturing, ARM, experience, fabless semiconductor companies, fabs, Intel, Ivy Bridge, Kal-El, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface Pro, NVIDIA, performance, semiconductor foundry, smoothness, SoC competition, SoCs, Surface Pro, Tegra, Tegra 3, TSMC, US economy, User Experience, Windows 8, Windows RT, x86
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Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market
Suggested preliminary reading: $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29 – Nov 13, 2011] Update (when neither up or down the market is an option for the company): Acer Likely to Withdraw From … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, tablets
Tagged Acer, Amazon, AMD, AMOLED, Android, Android 4.0, Apple, ARM (architecture), Asus, Asustek, cloud client, Dell, Flexible AMOLED, flexible display, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Intel, iPad, Kindle Fire, Lenovo, MacBook Air, media tablets, Microsoft, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Tegra, Quanta, Samsung, Samsung Mobile Display, tablet market, tablet PC, Tablets, Tegra, Tegra 2, Tegra 3, white-box vendors, Windows 8, Wistron, x86
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NVIDIA Tegra 3 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime
Follow-up: Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market [Dec 8, 2011] Update: ASUS introduces [i.e. making available] the Eee Pad Transformer Prime with NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-Core Processor and Google® … Continue reading
Posted in smartphones, SoC, tablets
Tagged Android, ARM (architecture), Asus, Asustek, cloud client, Companion Core, Cortex A9, Eee Pad Transformer, Eee Pad Transformer Prime, Galaxy Tab 10.1, iPad 2, Kal-El, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce, quad core, slates, SoC, Super IPS+, Tablets, Tegra, Tegra 3, Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing, vSMP
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Windows 8: the first 12 hours headlines and reports
After A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality [June 24, 2011] we came to an as full disclosure as possible by the keynote of the BUILD conference. Here are the very first (12 hours) … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, tablets
Tagged 3.9G, BUILD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, HTML5, Intel, JavaScript, Kal-El, LTE, Metro, Metro design language, Microsoft, Near Field Communication, NFC, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Plane Line Switching, PLS, Qualcomm, SaaS, Samsung, slates, Snapdragon, SoC, Super PLS, Tablets, Tegra, Ultrabook, UX, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Store, WinRT, Xbox
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Microsoft’s next step in SoC level slot management
Update: Microsoft postpones IDP for 2 weeks to re-consult with chip players [June 2, 2011] Microsoft has postponed its Integrated Development Program (IDP) for Windows 8 as the plan created significant dissatisfaction within the upstream supply chain. Microsoft is set … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, SoC
Tagged AMD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, slot management (Microsoft), SoC, Texas Instruments, Windows 8
5 Comments
Acer & Asus: Compensating lower PC sales by tablet PC push
Update: Asustek Takes Aim at Apple With Latest Tablet [Aug 2, 2011] Asustek Computer Inc. is reportedly planning to fight off Apple with its latest Transformer-coded tablet PC in anticipation that Apple will cut down prices of its iPad 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Geopolitics, tablets
Tagged Acer, AMD, AMD Ontario, Android, APU, Asus, Asustek, China, cloud client, Compal, Computers and Internet, Google, Honeycomb, In-Plane Switching, IPS, Microsoft, NVIDIA, PC, Personal Computer, slates, Tablets, Taiwan, Tegra, UX, Windows 7, Wistron
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