GIVEN THE PROBLEMS that Intel’s Cougar Point chipset had this week, it is no surprise that some across the internet are taking pot-shots at the company. Usually these come in rant form, but this time, we get one as a song.
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LG ELECTRONICS HAS announced that it will be launching its Android 3.0 tablet which is currently known as the G-slate on T-Mobile’s network in the US sometime in March. The tablet is expected to be officially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress which kicks off on the 14th of this month, but LG has kindly shared plenty of details about the new tablet ahead of the launch.
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ALTHOUGH NOT QUITE being what we’d call a 4G phone, the Motorola Atrix 4G with an Nvidia Tegra AP20H dual core SoC and 1GB of RAM has finally been given something of a launch date by AT&T. Full pricing has also been revealed, not only for the handset itself, but also for it bundled with the laptop dock and desktop dock.
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IF YOU’RE A HEAVY bandwidth users with Verizon you might want to re-think your choice of network, as the company has issued some changes to its data usage policies as of today that allows them to throttle the top five percent of its users. On top this, the cellular network operator has decided that streaming media uses up too much of its bandwidth and will from now on transcode all streaming video passing through its network.
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HATS OFF TO Intel for pulling one of the most devious PR spin and coverups of the year with their chipset problems explanation. While it may be a desperate and masterful obfuscation job, if you poke a little under the surface, you can see how badly they screwed up, and how little of the truth actually came out.
Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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INTEL HAS ISSUED a product recall today of all its Sandy Bridge chipsets, which is a huge deal for the company as the product recall is set to have a fairly significant if not huge impact on Intel’s profits this quarter. However, as the Chinese New Year is already in full swing in most of Asia, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any product recalls from Intel’s partners for at least another couple of weeks.
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AFTER THE KEYNOTES of the three Common Platform partners, Samsung, Global Foundries, and IBM, three customers took turns at the podium. The first one up was ARM, and the talk centered around familiar themes, power and integration.
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SONY ERICSSON’S PLAYSTATION phone is hardly a secret or a surprise at this stage after multiple leaks over the past few months; however, it has now been put through its paces in an early preview of close to final sample. The handset is likely to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in the middle of next month and it’s likely to quickly become one of the most popular Android phones.
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IBM SHOWED OFF a 20nm test wafer at the Common Platform conference last week. It is a Common Platform test chip, but exactly which one is not clear.
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THE FINAL KEYNOTE of the Common Platform conference was given by IBM’s Garry Patton, and he talked collaboration and tech. The list of new things thrown out was pretty dizzying, but what do you expect from someone who is in charge of semiconductor R&D?
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IT’S VERY POSSIBLE that tablets are finally getting to the stage where they’ll deliver what have been promised for so long and HP looks set to be close to front of the pack if details of its new tablets prove to hold true. Full specs of its 9.7-inch webOS tablet currently codenamed Topaz has leaked and it has just about everything a good tablet should have.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD the second keynote at the Common Platform alliance conference Tuesday, the topic was manufacturing. Chia Song Hwee, COO of Global Foundries went into more details about what the alliance is doing to make chips, and how they were planning to work together for the benefit of their customers.
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THE COMMON PLATFORM alliance, Global Foundries, IBM and Samsung had a conference Tuesday to announce their renewed alliance and show off their respective wares. Samsung’s NS Woo, President and GM of the LSI Division kicked it off in the first of three keynotes.
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A FEW DAYS ago a story by Computerworld suggested that Acer was about to move away from netbooks in favour of tablets, tablets with Sandy Bridge processors and Android no less. This was meant to have been said by Acer’s Taiwanese sales manager, but now the company has issued a statement to the contrary.
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DETAILS OF HP’s upcoming webOS tablets are finally starting to leak out and the first pictures of what is said to be renders of the new tablet have turned up alongside with some initial specs. Alongside the pictures, information about HP’s plans for the new tablet also leaked which makes for some interesting reading.
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