While the manufacturing cost of an ARM powered TabletPC is around 300 ~ 350 USD for a 10” model and 150 ~ 200 USD for a 7” model, Microsoft reportedly plans to charge tablet manufacturers a huge 90 ~ 100 USD for a Windows 8 ARM Edition. We were talking about Intel’s strangely failed attempt at the mobile phone market a while ago and about the potentially successful entry into the TabletPC market [...]

Korean giant corporation Samsung has just announced that it started manufacturing 4Gb memory chips using 20nm manufacturing technology, on its official website. Remember that you need two such 4 Gb memory chip to have 1 GB of LPDDR2 RAM in you smartphone, as 1 GB (Gigabyte) is equal to 8 Gb (Gigabits). Up until now, Samsung has been using four chips manufactured in the 30 nm technology process to [...]

Samsung’s greatest R&D division, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has reportedly published and detailed research on the Barristor in the journal Science on the 17th of May. This is the wonder chip that researchers were looking for. We’ve talked about the amazing properties of Graphene before here. And we also reported on silicene’s arrival to the market before graphene in this [...]

Michael Prokop announced last night, May 17th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Release Candidate of the upcoming grml 2012.05 Debian-based operating system. Dubbed Ponyhof and based on Debian Testing (15/05/2012), grml 2012.05 RC1 comes with the missing tools from the downsized 2011.12 release of grml, and the team revived the grml-small flavour. The final release [...]

    Pacers lead 2-1   POINTS REBOUNDS ASSISTS     Roy Hibbert’s 19 points and 18 rebounds helped the Pacers rout the Heat. Michael Conroy/AP GAME 1  Heat 95, Pacers 86 GAME 2  Pacers 78, Heat 75 GAME 3  Pacers 94, Heat 75 GAME 4  at IND, Sun. May 20, 3:30 p.m., ABC GAME 5  at MIA, Tue. May 22, TBD, TNT GAME 6  at IND, Thu. [...]

You’d think that a company fresh out of revealing a new, color, flexible display technology for e-readers would scramble to get such an item out as soon as possible. Plastic Logic has just finished smashing and grinding into dust that particular assumption, having announced that it will not, in fact, use that flexible display in an e-reader. More precisely, it won’t be making any new e-readers, [...]

Today, part of the team at Softpedia was invited to be present at SONY’s World Photography Awards in Bucharest, Romania. During the photography exibit we got the chance to receive a great presentation about SONY’s new NEX-F3 and SLT A37 digital cameras. We’ve already introduced you to the SONY SLT A37 DSLR here and it comes with many features from its more experienced and capable brother, the [...]

Although the AMD Brazos 2.0 launch is still scheduled for next month, Japanese company Fujitsu is listing the new Esprimo EH30/HT desktop all-in-one system as available, on its official website. AMD’s APUs have been, and still are, a great success for the company and will probably help things change in the PC market. The next generation of low-power APUs from AMD is still based on TSMC’s now [...]