nVidia showcases the power of the Kal-El quad-core chips with a game - Glowball

Remember the nVidia project Kal-El? That project they have been cooking in their kitchen rumored to be launched within this year and will give mobile devices the power of a quad-core processor? nVidia have released a video of a game to showcase the power of their Kal-El chips and did not forget to note that the chip used in the game in an Android Honeycomb tablet is not yet the production chipset which means that it can be faster when they are already in production. 

Qualcomm's 3rd gen Snaprdragon processor gets demoed - 1.5GHz dual-core!

The company unveiled their 3rd generation Snapdragon processor during the CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Today though they showcased their Qualcomm Snaprdragon MSM8660 dual-core chipset. The processor is dual-core and can rev up to 1.5GHz. Aside from that the chipset includes their newest GPU, the Adreno 220 which will allows devices to playback true HD videos in 1080p right on your device! Two videos are posted after the break for us to fully understand what they are saying. 

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Texas Instruments announced OMAP 5: multi-core chips up to 2GHz clockspeed

At MWC 2011 TI (Texas Instruments) showcased their next generation mobile processor, OMAP 5. The new chip will be sporting two ARM Cortex-A15 cores each capable of clocking to 2 GHz. The new chips offer 50%  more performance as to the Cortex-A9 architecture.  Aside from that TI's OMAP 5 will feature two Cortex-M4 for much better performance, better device responsiveness, and lower power consumption. 

"The platform can support up to four cameras operating at the same time, offer 3D playback, recording, and 2D upsampling to 3D at 1080p resolution, and control up to 8GB of RAM." - Endgadget

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Qualcomm unveils new generation Snapdragon chips - quad-core awesomeness with 2.5GHz clockspeed!

Qualcomm at MWC 2011 have unveiled their new generation Snapdragon chips. You might think that the mobile processor industry, especially with Qualcomm, is getting a little boring, then think again. The new chips from the company will be powering your future devices up to 2.5GHz and that will have four cores in it giving you 150% more overall performance and 65% lesser power consumption (that's a lot!). The new chipset comes in single, dual, and of course quad cores.

Samsung names it's dual-core mobile processors as Exynos

The latest post I had for the Samsung Galaxy S2 "Seine" which will be unveiled and showcased during MWC 2011 in Spain says that it will be powered by a dual-core processor made by Samsung named Orion. In a Press Release, the Korean giant confirmed the real name of the new processors that they will be stuffing into the Galaxy S2 as the Samsung Exynos processor.

[Local] 2nd Generation Intel Core processors now available in the Philippines

Back at CES 2011 Intela have showered the world with their 2nd generation Intel Cores, those Sandy Brigdges, that feature a new architecture in the chip's design offering you better performance compared to the first gen iCores. In the Philippines though, Intel have already announced the processors, and my source have seen hem in stores already, well at least some of them.