AMD A8-3870K and A6-3670K Unlocked APUs Listed for Pre-Order

At the end of September we found out that until 2011 ended, AMD planned to launch two new chips in its A-Series APU product family which were supposed to come with unlocked multiplier, dubbed the A6-3670K and A8-3870K, and these two processors have now become available for pre-order in the US. Both of these processors greatly resemble their predecessors, the A8-3870K coming as a 100MHz higher clocked version of the current A8-3850, which means that it now runs at 3GHz. The second unlocked APU to be released by AMD is called the A6-3670K and this also is an almost exact copy of the A6-3650 it is meant to replace apart from the 2.7GHz operating speed, again 100MHz higher than that of its predecessor. Outside of the higher operating clock and...

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$200 Million Go into Anti-Apple Samsung Legal Fund

There doesn't seem to be much chance of Apple and Samsung settling their differences now that their patent war has escalated all around the world, and Samsung's latest move proves it.  There aren't many things that could make a company change how its finances get distributed and invested, but Samsung is of the opinion that its quarrel with Apple is among them. According to the Korea Times, the former has chosen to set aside $200 million to use as a legal fund for 2012. Initially, things looked grim for Samsung and its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, as well as some smartphones. After an Australian judge issued an injunction against the tablet, the appeal court reverted the decision (sales still can't start until December 9). Even more recently,...

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AMD’s 28nm Radeon HD 7670M and HD 7690M Spotted in Asus and HP Notebooks

We definitely are getting closer to the launch of AMD’s Radeon HD 7000 mobile graphics core series and recently two GPUs from this upcoming product family were spotted in notebook models from Asus and HP. The chips were uncovered by the German PC Games Hardware publication, which spotted them in the configuration of Asus’ X53TK 15-incher and in the HP Envy 17. The first one of these notebooks, the X53TK, seems to be an all AMD affair since is powered by an A6-3420M APU with integrated HD 6520G GPU, but in order to improve the GAMING performance of its creation Asus also added Radeon HD 7670M discrete graphics to its laptop. The HD 7670M is actually a Thames XT chip manufactures using the 28nm node and it packs a 128-bit wide memory bus connected...

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Intel Core i3-2370M and i5-2450M CPUs Could Launch on December 11

At the end of this week, Intel could expand its mobile Sandy Bridge processor range with two new CPUs from the Core i3 and Core i5 product families that will slightly improve upon the specs of the chips these are meant to replace. Both of these upcoming processors were spotted by CPU-World inside an HP document which covered the configuration options available for its Pavilion dv6 notebooks. In addition to confirming the specs of the two processors, the HP doc also mentioned that the CPUs will be available in the dv6 starting with December 11, which suggests this is the date when Intel plans to make the Core i3-2370M and i5-2450M official. The first one of these processors, the i3-2370M, was designed to come as a replacement for the Core...

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Fujitsu Arrow ES IS12F Goes Official at KDDI in Japan

Fujitsu appears determined to bring to the market the thinnest smartphones ever, and the new Fujitsu Arrow ES IS12F is the latest such handset, the one that claims the top spot on the list.  Being only 6.7mm (0.26 inches) thin, the new device is as slim as the Fujitsu ARROWS μ F-07D smartphone that was seen recently en-route to NTT DoCoMo. Arrow ES IS12F will make an appearance on shelves at wireless carrier KDDI in Japan, and has just been made official with Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board and with waterproof capabilities. The specifications list of the new Android smartphone includes a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen display that can deliver a 480 x 800 pixel resolution, a 5-megapixel camera with image stabilization...

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Intel’s Unreleased Pentium B970 Spotted in HP's Pavilion dv6 Notebook

By the end of this year, Intel is expected to launch a new series of mobile processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and one of these upcoming chips, the Pentium B970, was just spotted inside an HP document. This doc details the technical specifications of the company’s Pavilion dv6 notebook which it seems like soon it will be updated to feature new processor options. One of these is the Pentium B970. Starting with the release of its first Sandy Bridge-based Pentium B940, every mobile Pentium CPU released by Intel since then has come as a 100MHz higher clocked part when compared to its predecessor. The dual-core Pentium B970 is no exception to this rule and, as CPU-World reports, other than this small speed bump it will most probably...

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Nokia’s Store QML Client Updated, Nokia E6 Now Supported

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has made available for download a new flavor of its Store QML Client or Symbian devices, offering support for a few more smartphones than before.  However, this is not all, since Store QML Client 3.20.044 also adds support for additional languages, while also bringing a series of other enhancements into the mix. One of the most important improvements in the new release, for example, is the addition of support for the Nokia E6 smartphone. At the same time, Nokia focused a bit on the carrier billing area, so as to make sure that users receive a great experience when trying the service.  The complete release notes for the new application flavor include: Support for Arabic, Hebrew and Kazakh languages Support...

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Giada Uses Intel’s Atom Cedarview CPUs in Its Latest i35G Nettop

While Intel appears to be struggling to release the mobile version of its Atom Cedar Trail platform into the wild, is desktop counterpart seems to be doing quite well, Giada just announcing that it has used these chips for a new nettop, the Giada i35G. The design of the i35G reminds us more of a laptop than a nettop computer and is housed inside an ultra slim case that measures no more than 26.3mm (a little bit more than one inch) in thickness. Giada was able to make its nettop so thin by going with Intel’s Atom Cedarview processors, users having the option of choosing between the 2.1GHz D2700 and 1.83GHz D2500 CPUs. Both of these chips are based on the Cedarview architecture and feature a 10W TDP, 1MB of L2 cache and built-in graphics,...

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