Samsung 2GHz dual-core smartphone processor

2 core processors for the mobile space are breaking out all over. What that means is smart phones are going to get smarter and, more interestingly, closer to a PC. While smart phone are more of a phone with lots of other capabilities through apps, PCs are more of general computing capabilities that may have some communications capabilities. What is when a unified device is going to appear! I'll mush rather like to carry around one device that gives me everything. Phone, general computing, the whole nine yards of it! I'll happily carry such a device around!
Samsung intends to release 2GHz dual-core smartphone processore

Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

With the Windows 8 MS is going to give you a version for the ARM based processors. That creates an ARM based PC making opportunity. Similarly does it create an opportunity for the MS behemoth to move into the mobile space that they entirely missed! Can elephants dance! may be not but they can run at 40 KMPH when needed, is this an occasion, we would see MS hitting the ground running! I have nagging feeling that it is too little, too late!



CES 2011: Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

Nvidia to develop PC processors

With the announcement that Microsoft is going to break out from the Wintel and support ARM, big changes in the make up of the PC as we know it would change. Since the time in eighties the PC was released, it has been the x86 processors and the Windows operating systems. Only players in the processor space were the AMD and to some extent the VIA technologies. With MS support for another very well established architecture like the ARM, there is bound to be changes in the space. Similar moves are happening to get additional players into the mobile space where the ARM architecture is  strong. The competition in both space could only do good for consumers!! Let's watch and see.
Nvidia to develop PC processors

There's a New Species Evolving in PC Space Right Before our Eyes!

These evolutionary changes were happening for sometime now. The classic Wintel (Window + Intel) species have ruled the PC landscape for quite some time now. I am assuming the laptop to be a simple variant of the same PC model. Real change came with the introduction of the netbook. While the OS remained the Windows predominantly, there was a new processor, the Intel Atom. But it was still WinTel. It was sufficiently different variant of the PC. It was designed to be lower powered, meant for the surfing, mail and such Internet based applications in a very convenient, highly portable format.

Suddenly, there is a lot of activity in the Tablet format. Not that the species evolved just now. It has been around for some time.There were periodic attempts at  creating a tablet that will catch the fancy of users. The scene fairly exploded recently with the coming out of the iPad. Just today I read a report it has sold a million pieces in the 28 days it has been selling. There are many tablets in the works. Here are some examples. As with any evolutionary situation, some tablets are getting killed too! Microsoft seems to have killed its version for the tablet space. So did HP apparently, they killed the "slate" model they were readying for the market. Netbook sales seem to have flattened. So is tablet the next avatar of the personal computer. looks like hat. I personally think that's what's going to to happen. Let's see!

1 Gb RAMs become mainstream

512 Mb memory chips has been the mainstream component in use so long. By October however, the next leap seems to have happened. 1 Gbit chips have taken over. The hardware manufacturers made the switch in anticipation of Vista OS becoming catching up fast on popularity. Vista is memory hungry and the switch seemed logical.

There has been strange happenings however in the PC scene. Most PC manufacturers started pre-loading their machines with Vista soon after the release. However, soon news started trickling in that enterprises were pressing manufacturers to be able to switch to XP. Norm now has become that, XP disks that can be installed without getting back to MS for license keys are being shipped with systems. Most new purchase in the enterprise segment reportedly were falling back on XP.

Kind of strange!!