Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Samsung CEO ...

Chip maker MediaTek already offers a range of solutions for smartphones, tablets, and… other devices. There are also a handful of Chromebooks powered by MediaTek’s MT8173 quad-core processor. Now it ...

Samsung looks to have just taken the processor wars one notch higher with the announcement of Heterogeneous Multi-Processing, or HMP, being used in their latest Exynos 5 Octa line of processors. This ...

Samsung’s new octa-core processor is one of the company’s first chips based on ARMv8 architecture. The Samsung Exynos 7 Octa is a 64-bit chip that features 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores and 4 lower-power ...

Samsung has announced its latest mobile processor, the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, which features a massive 8 processing cores, and according to Samsung, it is the world’s first mobile processor to ...

Teclast announces the upcoming M50 Mini, an 8-inch mini tablet with an 8.7-inch IPS screen. This compact metal-bodied device weighs only 345g (125mm wide) and is powered by the UNISOC T606 octa-core ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Up until now, Samsung's 'octa-core' Exynos 5 Octa system-on-a-chip (SoC) hasn't really contained an ...

A few weeks ago I did some research about how Android apps take advantage of multi-core processors. Specifically, I looked to debunk the myth that Android apps only use one CPU core. My findings ...

The company's technology, dubbed the Octa-Core 6592, will be the first true eight-core mobile processor to hit the market. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

We have had multi-core processors in our PCs for over a decade, and today they are considered the norm. At first it was dual-core, then quad-core, and today companies like Intel and AMD offer high end ...