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Formally, VIA said it has sold Graphics chip technology Processing Unit (GPU) S3 to HTC, this agreement takes the funds of USD 300 million.

S3 graphics card with the chip itself has initiated VIA long enough, the chip of this type could rule on multiple devices 2D graphics processing industries. After feeling pretty successful on that platform, the VIA try to enter the PC with the Radeon and GeForce series challenging, but unfortunately does not run smoothly.

Although not quite successful in the classroom desktop computers, but the S3 GPU technology was ogled by Apple. The proof, some time ago Apple is penalized because it proved to diversion of one of these chip technologies that have been patented, S3TC.

Quoted from hothardware, Friday (7/8/2011), HTC seems to be using the S3 chip technology to strengthen their phones. Moreover the chip is claimed to be mighty kind to handheld devices, and friendly with the application developers.

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Currently Nvidia Tegra chip firmware upgrade  is not yet done Over The Air (OTA). In fact users System On a Chip (SoC)  is growing a lot. For that Nvidia was acquired Icera.

As quoted from Phone Arena, Thursday (5/12/2011), with the acquisition Tegra firmware can later be upgraded with a standard 2G networks, 3G, and 4G.

Icera is a networking company that has a portfolio good enough for HSPA + and LTE networks. Nvidia Tegra 2 as we know has a GPU, audio, and GPS in the chip.

But unfortunately SoC is forgetting one important feature, regarding the upgrade firmware OTA. Of course this will be very useful for Nvidia Tegra products further.

"Nvidia Tegra has had a fairly impressive road map in this industry, and now has been united with Icera. As part of Nvidia, we are ready to expand market share," said Icera CEO, Stan Boland.

Optimism boss Icera is a sign of readiness of these two companies to move forward, beyond the unification of Microsoft-Skype being a major focus in the realm of the IT industry.

READ MORE - To Strengthen Tegra Chip, Nvidia Acquisition Icera

Asus somewhat made ​​a breakthrough when presenting tablet EeePad Nvidia Tegra chip-based Transformer 2. That said, the Nvidia Tegra chip 3 was followed attend this year.

Nvidia Tegra 3 is based on quad-core chip code-named "Kal-El '. Competitors chip is an ARM Cortex-A9 and claimed five times faster than Tegra 2.

As quoted by Digitimes, Monday (09/05/2011), Asus will present the successor EeePad with Tegra 3 on this 2011. Along with that they also launched EeePad Slider EP102 and EP71 Eee Memo Pad 7 inch size within three months.

Here are some highlights project named "Kal-El 'this:
- The first mobile CPU chip in the world with quad-core processors
- Has 12-Core GPU Nvidia 3D Stereo
- Extreme HD resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 pixels
- Claimed five times faster than the Tegra 2

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A company designing processors that can help improve the performance of the smart phone or tablet. For smartphone, this processor can have 64 cores.

The processor was named Epiphany, designed by a company called Adapteva. The design allows the application of up to 64 cores on the phone.

Epiphany chip will not function replaces the 'brains' main phone today as its chip A5 Apple, Qualcomm's Snapdragon his or Nvidia Tegra 2.

As quoted from Computerworld on Thursday (05/05/2011), this chip to function as accelerators for specific functions.

Andreas Olofsson, CEO Adapteva, said the Epiphany has the ability of the flexible accelerator. Unlike other accelerator chip that is only specific to certain functions only.

He hopes the Epiphany could be used as a companion of the main processor technologies that exist today. Companies smart phone, tablet or supercomputer is expected to want to license this architecture.

In addition to mobile phones or tablet, Epiphany can also be applied to the device heavyweights such as servers. For servers, this chip can have up to 4,000 cores.

Epiphany is designed based on the specifications of reduced instruction set computing (RISC). Power consumption also claimed very low, 16-core 1GHz processor called the electricity need only 1 watt.

Olofsson asserted Epiphany alone can not be used as a 'brain' device, for example, to run the operating system based on Linux or Windows. This is because the chip does not have great memory management capabilities, such as in the x86 chips.

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