Thursday, February 17, 2011

Quad-Core Chips: The summer is the Turbo iPad

Display with the resolution of laser printers, mini-processors with the performance of high-end PC chip maker promises wonderful things for future smartphones and Tablet PC. Already in August, the first copies go on sale - and a new iPad would be there. Hamburg - A few days ago rumors making the rounds, Apple will this year not one, but two come up with new iPads.

Logically appeared not at first. Apple has a habit, new versions of its products usually present on a yearly basis, in between there are at most times, a processor upgrade for notebooks. But after the Mobile World Congress the rumors suddenly appear in a different light. Maybe Apple has no choice but to deliver iPads than this year in fact, two generations in order to keep pace with advances in technology.

The reason: At the Exhibition Centre in Barcelona, there were new microchips for computers and mobile devices to see flat, which should rub down all previously available calculators permitted. It started with chip maker Qualcomm. Its Snapdragon chips are currently in almost all major high-end cell phones are a must for mobile phones with Windows-7-phone operating system.

Especially popular: the version with 1 GHz clock frequency and a computer center. Just gave the dual-core chips to debut in some of the "Firsts" at the Mobile World Congress. But the gloss may soon fade when will the first equipment in which the new processors are installed, which have now been announced in Barcelona.

There is for a computer Qualcomm Monster APQ8064 with the cryptic title. Four processor cores it will have, each of them clocked at 2.5 GHz and supports the whole, at the request of an integrated quad-core graphics chip. And because we like to show off with big numbers, the manufacturer also noted at once that support the new chip digital cameras with up to 20 megapixels and see themselves on the recording and playback of 3D movies.

That all sounds great, but at the moment is still the future. While Qualcomm has already shown prototypes in Barcelona, with the delivery of ready-series chips, the company expects, however, until 2012. "Kal-El" is used to finish the competition gives the opportunity to move into pole position.

Nvidia wants that is not waiting with its quad-core processor for mobile devices so long. Pattern of which would already shipped to manufacturers of finished products, he expected in August, Intel Manager Michael Rayfield writes in his blog. And it will have in itself. Just like the Qualcomm chip and the nVidia chip has four cores.

As a code name to the developers "Kal-El" selected, the Kryptonian name of the cartoon character "Superboy". A clock frequency with which, the chip is called, nVidia does not, but showed impressive on the phone show how much power is in the silicon-Power: On an Android Tablet with "Kal-El" was a video in the ultra-high HD resolution 1440p simultaneously on the tablet screen with 1366 x 768 pixels and an HD display with 2560 x 1600 pixels alluded, without being jerked it.

A benefit, which there should have the integrated graphics chip core Twelve crucial role, with the nVidia will recommend the new propellant especially gamers. It is this service, it should be on the Apple is sharp. For something with a faster, slightly thinner iPad 2, the consolidated its dominant position in the tablets can hardly hold when the same equipment as Xoom Motorola, LG's 3D Optimus and HTC Flyer lure on the shelves.

iPad 3 for back-to-school season? So now would be conceivable that Apple will soon be actually iPad 2 brings in the stores. With dual-core processor, slightly shallower body, perhaps more space than before, and other minor improvements. This would be the new model, at least on the amount of time.

Then in August, the case could appear the iPad 3, just in time for the end of the summer holidays when needed in the U.S., millions of pupils and students a new computer. And this iPad 3, it could have in two ways in themselves. The then probably as a three designated Tegra processor would provide plenty of driving, be extra playing plenty of reserves.

Above all, he could potentiate the graphics capabilities of such an iPad. In combination with an HDMI port would be the Computerflunder a perennial player for HD movies. Up to twelve hours running time is the "Kal-El" chip in the video mode to create a battery. When the display is even more conceivable, however, that it prove that the rumors of a significantly increased resolution of the iPad displays.

So far, such speculations seem far-fetched: The chip in the iPad would not cope, matching screens were not given. But that has now changed. The new quad-core chips would be easy to feed tablet in a position to a screen of data, the resolution necessary for the iPad of 2048 x 1536 pixels.

The required display technology, Hitachi just announced. On a 4.5 inch screen, the Japanese press in 1280 x 720 pixels together. What a density of 339 dots per inch equivalent. A value that surpasses even the screen of the iPhone 4, which has 326 dots per inch. Retinal display is called the U.S.

group that because the points are on packed so tightly that they distinguish with the naked eye can not. Hitachi would make it now to incorporate its technology into a twice as large screen, Apple could advertise on his next iPad commercial appeal so that it now has a retinal display. And it would also look good.

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