Top Chips News, Reviews, and Events from November 2011

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  The Galaxy Nexus strips for your viewing pleasure

  Nov. 30, 2011 (11:33 am) By: Ray Walters In: Chips, Mobile

  With customers in the US still awaiting word from Verizon as to when they can pre-order the Ice Cream Sandwich powered Galaxy Nexus, some of the crew over at iFixit have gotten their hands on one. What they did with it is both interesting and painful to see, as they tore the unit down to to [...]

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  Samsung reveals 2GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 tablet chip

  Nov. 30, 2011 (10:47 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Chips, Gadgets, Mobile

  Earlier this year, interest in ARM processors exploded when Microsoft announced that Windows 8 and Office would run on the non-x86 chips. You’ve got to think that there’s a good possibility that Samsung — whose Series 7 slate made a splash at BUILD 2011 — will take a long hard look at building ARM tablets [...]

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  Windows 8 ARM laptops on hold until 2013?

  Nov. 29, 2011 (12:59 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: Chips, Geek Pick

  Next year, Windows 8 will be arriving in stores — and so will Windows 8 tablets powered by ARM processors like the Nvidia Tegra 3 and Qualcomm Snapdragon S4. But according to some industry sources, laptops running Windows 8 and ARM won’t show up until the middle of 2013. If you find that news a [...]

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  This dock will make for a cheaper MacBook Air workstation

  Nov. 28, 2011 (6:30 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Apple, Chips

  When it first released, the MacBook Air was all portability, no power. Like many first generation Apple products, it had limited functionality but paved the way for the future. Now that has changed — the latest MacBook Air rivals its big brother, the MacBook Pro, and it just lacks an optical drive. The engineer behind a [...]

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  The biggest Cyber Monday 2011 deals

  Nov. 28, 2011 (1:45 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: Chips, Gadgets, Geek Pick, Mobile

  Cyber Monday is, in many ways, an outdated term given how prolific online shopping is these days, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t great deals today. Below is a list of some of the top deals on Logic Buy, our deals-focused sister site. We’ll run through the deals below and point out some of our [...]

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  Toshiba’s latest TV uses zero power in standby mode

  Nov. 28, 2011 (10:50 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips

  The power consumption of electrical devices is always up for discussion as the price of energy rises. While the amount of energy required to power flat screen TVs and monitors has reduced significantly over the past few years (mainly due to the use of LEDs), one sticking point remains: standby mode. When you turn a [...]

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  15-inch MacBook Air expected early 2012

  Nov. 28, 2011 (8:30 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Apple, Apple Picks, Chips, Geek Pick

  Ever since the MacBook Air was released, no one has really been able to match it in the thin and light category of laptops. Apple’s super-thin design, coupled with solid performance and decent battery life has seemed unbeatable so far. New competition is about to appear though, in the form of the Ultrabooks Intel is [...]

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  Student can’t afford tablet for girlfriend, so builds her one for $125

  Nov. 25, 2011 (3:04 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips, Gadgets

  Not everyone can afford an iPad, even the $200 Kindle Fire is going to be out of reach for many cash-strapped individuals. But one student in China has demonstrated you only need $125 and a bit of DIY to create your very own device. Wei Xinlong wanted to get his girlfriend Sun Shasha a tablet [...]

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  Lenovo claim world’s smallest desktop PC with IdeaCentre Q180

  Nov. 23, 2011 (1:43 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips

  The image you see above is Lenovo‘s IdeaCentre Q180 desktop PC. It’s tiny. So tiny in fact, Lenovo is claiming this is the world’s smallest desktop PC. The Q180 measures just 155 x 192 x 22mm, but inside you’ll find quite a healthy combination of hardware. At its core is an Intel Atom D2700 dual-core [...]

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  Asus Padfone benchmarked, reveals Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor

  Nov. 22, 2011 (1:53 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: Chips, Mobile

  Unannounced smartphones get leaked in all kinds of ways. For the slick Asus Padfone — the Android smartphone that can dock in a 10.1-inch tablet — it’s a benchmark site that has spilled the beans. A quick trip to the system information tab reveals that the Padfone a community user was benchmarking utilizes Qualcomm’s hot [...]

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  ROHM develops wireless chip capable of 30 Gbps

  Nov. 22, 2011 (10:45 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips, Chips Picks, Geek Pick, Mobile

  Depending on where you live in the world, wireless data transmission is limited to either 3G or 4G speeds. If you are lucky enough to have an LTE capable device and connection, then the upper limit of your transfer speeds is 300Mbps. That’s fast by today’s standards, but won’t always be. As the years go [...]

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  Kyobo 6-inch eReader goes on sale with Mirasol color e-paper display

  Nov. 22, 2011 (10:01 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Chips, Gadgets

  $1 billion is a lot of money to spend on producing a product that never makes it to market. Which is why Qualcomm must no doubt be relieved that its Mirasol color e-Ink display has finally landed in a commercial produced gadget: the Kyobo eReader. Mirasol displays promise the best of both worlds: the energy [...]

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  Min7 micromouse robot solves maze in 3.921 seconds

  Nov. 22, 2011 (9:15 am) By: Matthew Humphries In:

  There are many areas of robotics that leave an impression. The standout ones include robots that walk, those that look and talk like humans, and any robot that is capable of precise and delicate object interaction. But there’s also the fun side of robotics such as the soccer championships, Robot Wars, and a new entry [...]

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  Chromebook pricing reduced to $299

  Nov. 22, 2011 (8:30 am) By: Ray Walters In: Chips, News

  If you have been wanting to get your hands on one of Google’s “nothing but the web” Chromebooks, but couldn’t justify the expense, it may be time to reconsider. Google announced yesterday that it has been working with both Acer and Samsung to lower prices on current models of the Chrome OS webtop computers. Instead [...]

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  This 16KB memory module is larger than most laptops

  Nov. 21, 2011 (2:50 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In:

  The electronic contraption above isn’t some sort of high-tech server blade or insanely powerful graphics processor, it’s 16KB of memory circa 1970. More precisely, it’s a 16- by 11.5-inch core memory module. Core memory, in case you were wondering, is a technology from a bygone era where wires and metal rings stored bits of information [...]

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