Linux programs, when they misbehave, produce core dumps. The reason they have that name is that magnetic core memory was the primary storage for computers back in the old days and many of us still … ...

Samsung's mobile System-on-Chip, SoC, business is on something of a roll. Samsung were one of the earliest adopters of the big.LITTLE idea for mobile ...

A report on on Saturday reveals Apple's new A6 processor is actually the company's first attempt at designing a custom ARMv7 core, possibly debunking earlier claims that the silicon was using ARM ...

The third generation Apple TV uses a unique single-core A5 chip that has not been in any other production Apple device to date, and is likely a key component in how iPad maker is able to keep ...

This is certainly a high performance Arduino board with the processor running at 200MHz and with 4Mbyte of flash, 128kbit of data flash and 500k of RAM. As a demonstration of the processor’s ...

The new Kryo 280 CPU inside Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 is the first semi-custom ARM CPU core design in the smartphone market. Here's what it all means.

Leaked benchmarks are believed to be tests for the upcoming processor, which NVIDIA and MediaTek are developing for desktop ...

Apple still hasn't said a word about the new A6 SoC within the iPhone 5, but no matter: Chipworks has now completed its initial analysis of the A6, and the results are very interesting indeed. The ...

The A6 processor that powers Apple's newest iPhone is using neither rehashed Cortex A9 cores, nor the upcoming Cortex A15, but an original design based on ARM's armv7s architecture.

There are several reasons why the Uno R4’s processor is faster than that of Arduino’s previous-generation chip. Many applications process data in 32-bit blocks.

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Apple's next MacBook could come equipped with its own custom processor, bypassing chip giant Intel, said Mark Gurman at Bloomberg.After 15 years partnering with Intel for its central processing ...