According to some Bloomberg sources, Lenovo is preparing to buy NEC’s mobile division. This comes a couple of weeks after other rumors said that Panasonic is also selling its mobile division and HTC or TSMC ... Read More »
Author Archives: Lucian Armasu
New Mobile Graphics Benchmark from Rightware Is Right Around the Corner
Rightware has leaked the upcoming Basemark X benchmark, which is supposed to be a very impressive mobile graphics benchmark tool based on the Unity 4 engine with a 900,000 polygon graphics demo, and they’re saying ... Read More »
ARM’s Mali GPU’s Are the Leading Chips in the Android Tablet Market
The Mali GPU’s from ARM have become the most popular chips on Android tablets, and it has seen a 30% increase in 2012 across smartphones, tablets and smart TV’s, reaching 150 million units, with an ... Read More »
Qualcomm to Get Serious about Gaming. Partners Up with Unity
Qualcomm has begun a partnership with Unity Technologies, which make the very popular mobile gaming engine, Unity. This could mean that Qualcomm is finally getting serious about gaming, even though their GPU line, Adreno, which ... Read More »
Tablets to Outsell Desktop PC’s This Year and Laptops Next Year
IDC has released their latest report on the mobile market, and according to them over 1 billion smart connected devices have been sold in 2012, which is an increase of 29.1% from the previous year. This big ... Read More »
OUYA to Support NES, SNES and N64 Games at Launch
OUYA, the highly anticipated Android-based console, which will have over 500 games at launch, is also going to support all NES, SNES and N64 games at launch, thanks the developers of SuperGNES and Mupen64Plus emulators, ... Read More »
MiiPC Shows the Rise of Android on PC’s
Whether Google likes it or not, Android seems to be on the rise on mini ARM-powered PC’s, despite the fact that Android is far from being that optimized on large screens. Projects such as the ... Read More »
Renesas Next to Make big.Little Processors for Cars
The automotive industry is about to become another huge and fast growing market for mobile chip makers, after the smartphone and the tablet markets. A lot of car makers now want to use the same ... Read More »
We May See Android on Notebooks Soon
Google is focusing on Chrome OS notebooks right now, and it could very well be the future of all notebooks, once LTE is ubiquitous and extremely cheap, so you don’t have to worry about using ... Read More »
China to Give Ubuntu a Much Needed Boost in Market Share
As it plans to become less dependent on pure American proprietary technologies, China is starting to increase the focus on open source technologies. In fact in the next 5 years it plans to promote the ... Read More »