A job post at LinkedIn states that Intel is searching for Windows Phone engineers in the Redmond area, which makes us speculate that the largest chip maker is diving in to the Windows Phone mobile platform – x86 based device could surface in near future. According to the job post, the company is looking for full time, mid-senior level experienced... 

Shangai based Spreadtrum Communications recently introduced two system-on-chips codenamed SC8810 and SC6820 – both clocking at 1Ghz frequency. These single-cored chips are based on ARM Cortex A5 architecture and delivers lower power consumption than ARM-11 and Cortex A9 processors. For graphics, both SoC is said to have Mali GPU inside. SC8810... 

Quad-core SoC Nvidia Tegra 3 has finally been announced, features impressive vSMP, graphics and overall performance. Nvidia proudly claims that Tegra 3 boosts 3 times the graphics performance than Tegra 2. Based on ULP GeForce, the GPU now has 12 cores and is enabled for 3D stereo, rest all as same as Tegra 2′s GPU. Nvidia’s new patent-pending... 

There it is, Nvidia’s again awarded for Best Choice – this time the first dual-core SoC for smartphones and tablets – Tegra 2. This is the third time they’re receiving a Best Choice award. In 2009, Nvidia ION processor won the same award, and in 2010 the award was gone to Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 GPU. Tegra 2 was amazing at... 

Samsung’s official Estonian FB page confirms that Galaxy II (I9100) will bear 1.2Ghz processor, instead of 1Ghz. The SoC is based on ARM Cortex A9, along with Mali 400MP GPU. Clocks an additional 200Mhz than what previously announced, this new Sammy beast gets more powerful to get in the line of Snapdragon 1.2Ghz dual core based mobile phones... 

Qualcomm has unfortunately delayed it’s new Snapdragon, the quad core one, till 2012 – but Nvidia already sent samples to OEMs, and promises that tablets and mobile phones bearing this SoC will be seen in August and 2011 X-mas respectively. But what’s new? Well the performance Tegra 3 carries makes it powerful enough to output 1440p... 

BSN, has got an interesting roadmap of NVIDIA’s Tegra development. It says that the very next Tegra will boost up from Cortex-A9 arch. based quad-cored clocking up to 1.5Ghz. But an official announcement during CES tells a different story… Both the Tegra 3 SoC, for tablet (T30) and for mobile phones (AP30,) were already introduced to OEMs... 

Qualcomm being at CES had a roundtable with bloggers, showing off their dual-core Snapdragon MSM8260/8660 mobile device SoC’s. Performance? Well, it supports HDMI out, multi-party video conferencing, delivering HD stereoscopic 3D contents from phone to TV, and so on. MSM8x60 (8260 for GSM and 8660 for CDMA devices) CPUs are packed up on 45nm... 

A bunch of info shared by Nvidia tells us, that the future Tegra will be based on ARM Cortex A-15, and that Nvidia has been licensed for ARM Cortex A-15. The main part of the press info was “Project Denver” however we find next Tegra info more interesting! Project Denver is an initiative by Nvidia building up new processors based on ARM... 

The recently introduced LG Optimus 2x bears a Tegra 2 inside, and also today’s Moto Xoom tablet. Both devices makes inside 1 GHz dual-core processor powered Nvidia Tegra 2. They call such devices “super phones” and it really makes sense… Well, talking about the fact Tegra 2 makes itself as the first dual-core mobile phone processor... 

Official press release is out, stating the next Windows will support SoCs of Intel, AMD as well as ARM. Rumors have just become true. Still 1 hour left for Microsoft to show up at CES, but they are out with the official press release about the approach for their new SoC support. Of course Intel and AMD will “support for millions of x86 applications... 

Whoa! While Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon MSM8960 dual core CPU, insider claims to bring similar gaming performance as of Xbox 360 to their next development. Introducing the Snapdragon MSM8960 system-on-chip which is built on a 28nm die, dual-core-based at 1.2GHz. Interestingly, it’s 5x the “performance of the original Snapdragon chip.”... 

Whoa! While Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon MSM8960 dual core CPU, insider claims to bring similar gaming performance as of Xbox 360 to their next development. Introducing the Snapdragon MSM8960 system-on-chip which is built on a 28nm die, dual-core-based at 1.2GHz. Interestingly, it’s 5x the “performance of the original Snapdragon chip.”... 

Don’t get confused, nope these are not the comic “Marvel” guys jumping into computers – it’s “Marvell” coming up with something that may prove as a game changer for smartphones. The new Armada 628 processor from Marvell delivers 3 cores, yup – 3 cores of awesomeness. Clocking at 1.5 Ghz, this little piece... 

We don’t know why Apple didn’t hype the processor of iPhone 4, Apple has decided to leave the already-being-used Samsung-built ARM Cortex-A8-based CPU and use its own custom built A4 chip – same as the iPad, which funnily enough… is an ARM Cortex-A8-based CPU. Apple A4 chip which is based on an ARM Cortex-A8-based CPU So anyways,...