Among other things, it lacked a memory "buffer" which banks audio in a separate storage area that can be drawn on if line-of-sight reception is blocked.A closer look at XM's chipset reveals two unique integrated circuits, each assigned to different tasks.
At least the chipset is cheap, selling to TV makers for as little as $18.
Specs for Toshiba's NB100 are similar to most other netbooks on the market: Intel Atom N270 chipset at 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive, 1024×600 widescreen 8.9-inch LCD, integrated webcam, and three USB ports.
On October 14, 2008, Apple announced a MacBook featuring a new Nvidia chipset at a Cupertino, California press conference with the tagline: "The spotlight turns to notebooks".
In case you haven't been keeping up with the Nexus 5's long journey from rumor to actual product, the Android 4.4 KitKat device is said to sport a 4.95-inch display running at 1080p and a quad-core Snapdragon 800 chipset clocked at 2.3GHz.
"You can't just put a fridge on them to keep them at that pace," says Thomas Piazza Thomas Piazza, director of graphics integrated chipset architecture at Intel, the largest seller of integrated chipsets.
Intel management feels that VIAs move to get the chipset made at National Semiconductor nsm factories was not enough to put VIA in the clear.
Centrino 2 has finally seen the public, as Intel is previewing its next-gen wireless chipset this week at Computex.
Samsung did not confirm exactly what the U.S. chipset is at yesterday's launch, but the word on the street is it's Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600.
So says their source, the Nexus 4G will feature a dual-core chipset clocked at either 1.2 Ghz (much like HTC's Sensation 4G) or 1.5 Ghz.
