by Agam Shah, IDG News Service Intel’s upcoming next-generation laptop chips will have a dozen new features to improve graphics performance and will be able to play Blu-ray 3D movies, the company said on Thursday. Laptops with processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture will play Blu-ray 3D movies while preserving battery life, said Nick [...]

By Daniel Eran Dilger Published: 05:30 PM EST Volume production of the next new generation of Intel’s desktop and notebook CPUs will begin earlier than originally anticipated in response to enthusiasm from chip buyers like Apple who have sampled the new parts. Speaking in the company’s Q2 conference call, Intel’s president and chief executive [...]

New Samsung, SE phones BARCELONA – SAMSUNG Electronics and Sony Ericsson unveiled new smartphones on Sunday as the two companies seek to catch up to their rivals in the fast-growing segment of the mobile phone industry. South Korea’s Samsung and Swedish-Japanese group Sony Ericsson showed their new multi-media handsets in Barcelona, Spain, on the eve [...]

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Early details have surfaced of the timetable and features of Intel’s replacement for Calpella, the chipset that drives mobile Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. Already known under its Huron [...]

One of the advances Apple plans for future MacBook Pro models is an improvement to the handling of the notebooks’ dual graphics chips, AppleInsider has learned. Dual-graphics auto switching More specifically, the Mac maker has up and running in its labs several next-generation MacBook Pros that can switch between their integrated and discrete graphics processors [...]