The kit streamlines design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture.
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Android also allows most programs to work even if manufacturers change the underlying chip architecture.
We're somewhat surprised when the Samsung-made Nexus is using a brand new chip architecture that many had thought would represent a fundamental leap in speed.
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The surly native of Vicenza, Italy signed up his friend Mead, who has helped start 20 companies, written an industry bible on chip architecture and run a famous lab at Caltech.
This year Intel will lap AMD by finally scrapping the old Pentium-chip architecture in favor of a suite of lower-temperature, dual-core microprocessors that consume 35% less power and increase performance by 80%.
The company must now put its energy into ensuring that Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Itanium chip architecture, upon which HP has partly staked its future, is a big success.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have successfully developed a quantum chip with von Neumann architecture.
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By integrating Intrinsic ID's PUF technology into its secure microcontroller SmartMX2, NXP significantly enhances the chip's security architecture and strengthens applications such as NFC-enabled mobile payment, electronic ticketing, and eGovernment and cyber security services.
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The new operating system follows a smart move in January to ditch the older, problematic Wintel legacy and focus on new versions of Windows for the System on a Chip (SoC) architecture, many times more suitable for tablet devices, according to Sandeep Aggarwal at Caris.
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This intricacy complements Synopsys' skills at setting up the basic architecture of a chip.
Microsoft is pushing Talisman, another tile-based architecture, for which Fujitsu will launch the first chip later this year.
In September 2010, Intel launched its second-generation core architecture, Sandy Bridge, a 32-nanometer chip that can put CPUs and GPUs onto a single piece of silicon designed for tasks like handling high-definition video.
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As it turns out, it runs a quad-core version of AMD's new Temash chip, which is being billed as the first quad-core, x86-based SoC. (There's also a dual-core version.) Built into the chip is an HD Radeon 8000 series GPU with AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture, so in theory you should be able to pull off PC-caliber gaming even on a tablet.
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Two things: the open architecture of the PC, and the foundry business, which allows companies focused on chip design to outsource the production of their chips.
The third-generation platform architecture consists of a multi-core SSD controller integrated with multiple high-speed serial on-chip buses and embedded processors, achieving high-speed data transfer between host and storage device.
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