Apple’s new phones are packed with more computing power without a significant cost to the battery life, thanks to upgrades of the A8 application processor and M8 motion co-processor. Read more »
Philips’ new all-white connected Lux bulbs are half the cost of its colorful Hue lights, and a nice addition to the overall system — once you figure out how to make… Read more »
The company whose chip is bringing 3-D computer sight to a Google handset project has released a second generation SoC that would offer better vision with less of a battery drain. Read more »
As part of the fanfare around the launch GE-backed Quirky launching Wink as a separate company dedicated to the connected home, GE is opening up pre-orders for a connected light bulb… Read more »
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don’t gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA. Read more »
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren’t centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from… Read more »
Cavium is latest company to launch an ARM-based server chip for the data center, but the networking chip specialist is doing so with an entire family of ARM-based chips for compute,… Read more »
We spill a lot of digital ink talking about the chips that will displace Intel’s in the data center, but the chip giant isn’t ceding that ground without a fight. Read more »
Imagination, the holder of the MIPS architecture license, and several other big-name chip firms have created prpl — a foundation to make sure MIPS can compete when it comes to software… Read more »
Bulbs that can change color when a spouse calls? Retail lighting that tracks you while you shop? Philips is using LEDS to make lighting perform new functions, including a project to… Read more »