Tag: Chip

  • Chips in iPhone 5 lightning port compel you to use only Apple accessories

    Chips in iPhone 5 lightning port compel you to use only Apple accessories

    Painful as it may seem, the iPhone 5 has just dropped another bomb, like it’s been doing, ever since its launch. Apple have used their hot, new device to go head-on with their competitors who keep feeding us with accessories that are cheaper and work just fine (in most cases). By introducing authentication chips in…

  • Samsung Exynos 5250 packs dual-Cortex A15 2GHz CPU

    Samsung Exynos 5250 packs dual-Cortex A15 2GHz CPU

    The Samsung army is pretty much hogging up a major share of sensible phones and portables. Here’s the part that reminds you about t he Samsung Exynos 5250 is one of the latest contenders announced. It’s said that this system on a chip (SoC) will run with dual processors based on the ARM A15 design.…

  • Gameduino is some good news for gamers

    Open source hardware doesn’t really have to be the bit of inaccessible somethings that only exist to give gamers joygasms. After inspiring several gaming hacks, of consoles that were earlier considered to be impenetrable. Now 8-bit game-making can come home with the Gameduino board. The chip has been designed by one Jason Bowman and is…

  • IBM master superchip for supercomputers

    IBM master superchip for supercomputers

    The future of computing was to always promise unbelievable capabilities. But this news from IBM’s brain boys gives us more than a hint of what lies ahead for at least supercomputers. The chip that the company has developed is spun out of a technology that uses electricity and light, called nanophotonics. With this, electrical and…