Samsung 13.3" 535U3C Ultra-Thin Notebook Featuring AMD Trinity

Korean giant electronics and semiconductor company Samsung is now preparing the new AMD-powered Series 5 ultra-thin notebooks. The laptops feature AMD’s Trinity ultra-low voltage (ULV) processors. We knew that Samsung’s Series 5 notebook line would also feature Trinity-based models, but now these mobile computers have reportedly been spotted at online retail stores. The new laptops come with the amazingly low power A6-4455M APU that only consumes a maximum of 17 watts and is clocked at 2.1GHz. This APU has a 2600 MHz Turbo frequency, 2 MB of level 2 cache and a decent integrated Radeon HD 7500G iGPU that runs its 256 shader cores at 327 MHz, or up to 424 MHz in Turbo mode. Samsung’s 535U3C ultra-thin notebook has a...

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TSMC 10nm Manufacturing Plan

In the quest for more 28nm manufacturing capacity, TSMC is apparently trying its best to expand and refine the 28nm production lines and will put more advanced technologies on the backburner. World’s largest independent semiconductor foundry, Taiwanese company TSMC is now apparently giving up on its plans to implement and ramp up production using 450mm wafers during the 2013 ~ 2014 timeframe. Right after the company bought a stake in the famous ASML semiconductor technologies developer, along with the likes of Intel and Samsung, TSMC decided not to hurry so much towards implementing a 450mm manufacturing line. The company has announced that it will begin commercial 450mm wafer manufacturing at the 10nm node in 2018, Fudzilla...

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Intel Changes CPU Naming Scheme to be More Deceptive

Intel is well known for doing almost anything to get a few more dollars in the company’s pockets and the recent change in the company’s processor naming scheme is yet another testament to that. After marketing the Core i7, i5 and i3 brands as targeting the high-end, mid-end and low-end respectively, the company has started naming mid-end processors using the same i7 moniker as the Extreme Edition CPUs and thus misleading the less informed buyers. We’ve reported here that the company is now labeling Sandy Bridge CPUs with similar tags that Ivy Bridge versions have and now Intel is changing the complete naming scheme of its CPUs by listing the top Turbo (single-core) frequency on the retail boxes instead of the default clock,...

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Sparkle Calibre X680 Captain and Calibre X670 Captain Graphics Cards

Many times in the past, when we wrote about a graphics card from Sparkle, they were rebranded models, or cards with far too much memory for comfort (thus, obvious attempts at exhausting memory chip inventories). Fortunately, this is not one of those occasions.The company has introduced two modified versions of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 670 high-end graphics adapters. They are called Calibre X680 Captain and Calibre X670 Captain. The former runs the GK104 graphics processing unit (GPU) at 1,124 MHz, or 1,189 MHz in GPU boost mode. For the sake of comparison, the reference GTX 680 runs at 1,006 MHz and 1,058 MHz, respectively. The second video card, Calibre X670 Captain, drives the GK104 2nm chip to 954 MHz base, 1,033 MHz Boost...

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New Nokia Lumia Devices and Windows Phone 8 Features Coming Up

September 5 represented a big day for Microsoft and for its hardware partner Nokia, as new handsets powered by the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform were unveiled. The Finnish handset vendor announced two smartphones set to land on shelves with the upcoming OS loaded on them, namely the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, both packing the latest technology advancements inside. Featuring a 4.5” PureMotion HD+ display, the Nokia Lumia 920 is said to be the most innovative smartphone in the world, capable of impressing both through looks and capabilities. You can have a look at it in the video embedded below. With a 4.3” OLED Wide Video Graphics Array (WVGA) display and a 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Snapdragon processor, the Lumia 820 is not...

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MSI Radeon HD 7750 OC V2 Video Card

Well-known mainboard and gaming notebooks manufacturer, Taiwanese company MSI has just shown a new version of its factory-overclocked implementation for AMD’s Radeon HD 7750 GPU. The new version is officially called MSI AMD Radeon HD 7750 OC V2 and compared with the company’s previous pre-overclocked HD 7750 video card, it comes with a single and large cooling fan that makes it inherently quieter. The card is built on AMD’s “Cape Verde” graphics processing unit that comes with a very small 123-square millimeter die size, containing 1.5 billion transistors. The default GPU speed is 800 MHz when working in full load 3D mode, but MSI’s AMD Radeon HD 7750 OC V2 is clocked at 830 MHz, TechPowerUp reports. In 2D mode, the...

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iPhone 5 Leaks Out of Foxconn Plant

It was only a matter of time before someone got their mitts on a fully assembled iPhone 5, right out of a Foxconn production plant. The unit featured in the footage below is a working one, pre-installed with iOS 6. A tipster talking to Chinese tech site Vgooo.com reportedly discovered an iPhone 5 prototype “accidentally” when he paid a visit to a friend at Foxconn’s factory in Jincheng, in China’s northern Shanxi province. According to MIC Gadget, which appears to have the full scoop on this leak, “when he got his hands-on with it, he could feel the phone is thinner, and it is indeed taller. He quickly took some photos, and a video.”  When booted up next to an iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 doesn’t move on to the iCloud screen...

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VIA Quad-Core Pico-ITX Motherboard with DirectX 11 and 3D

VIA may not be all that famous nowadays, nor does it have a large share of the motherboard and processor market, but as each day passes, we are more and more convinced that lack of advertising, as well as the decision to focus on a particular segment of the market, is the only reason. And by that we mean that we have all the proof we need to believe that VIA could very well create platforms for any sort of consumer electronic device, even PCs, if it wanted to. Especially considering that there was a time when it did just that. The VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX board is not a platform suited for PCs, but it doesn't really need to be. Having been developed for healthcare, logistics, fleet management and other such markets, it gains...

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Motorola Trio of New RAZR Smartphones

On Wednesday, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility unveiled to the world three new smartphones included in its RAZR lineup of devices, namely the RAZR M, RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD. All three smartphones are set to hit shelves in the not too distant future, though they won’t be launched in all markets around the world, it seems. According to Motorola, users in several Asia Pacific countries will soon be able to enjoy the RAZR M, while RAZR HD is set to hit shelves in various markets in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America. As for DROID RAZR MAXX HD, it was announced only for the US market for the time being, where it will connect to Verizon Wireless’ network. “All three Android-powered smartphones...

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Nokia Lumia 920 Full Specs

The full hardware specifications for Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 device, the Lumia 920, are now available online for all of us to make an idea of what to expect from it. The smartphone was made official yesterday, but no specific info on its availability or pricing has been unveiled, although Nokia did say that it should hit the market sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. We already knew that the new handset packs a large 4.5-inch touchscreen display that can deliver a 1280 x 768 pixels resolution, along with a dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 application processor inside, but little was known of its other capabilities. The hardware specifications for Lumia 920 that Nokia has published on its website unveil the...

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Intel Haswell Processors Will Have TDP of As Low As 10 Watts

In order for the Haswell central processors to start off on the right foot, in 2013, Intel has to make as many people aware of them, which is why it will speak of the units at its upcoming IDF (Intel Developer Forum), in San Francisco. Haswell will succeed the Ivy Bridge micro-architecture and, though it will retain the 22nm manufacturing process and 3D tri-gate transistors, it will bring quite a few new improvements, such as AVX2, Direct3D 11.1 and OpenGL 3.2 graphics and DDR4 memory support. What we haven't been able to get a good read on was the energy use, but our curiosity has finally been sated, in a sense. Though we still don't know the full range of chips, their specs and power draw, we do know that at least one...

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