The new console will feature a processor made by Advanced Micro Devices, a leading chip maker, according to another person with knowledge of the system who didn't want to be named talking about the product before it was publicly announced.
The gadget will be built around a processor made by graphics firm Nvidia that usually appears in smartphones, and will run Google's Android mobile operating system.
Intel recently developed a way to vary the power consumed by different parts of a processor, making it possible to have both slower, lower-power transistors as well as faster-switching ones that consume more power.
In sequential sharing, a processor makes multiple, sequential writes to the words within a block, uninterrupted by accesses from other processors.
When Mr Ellison first conceived the idea, he imagined a small device selling for less than $500, with a cheap processor, made by a firm such as Britain's Advanced RISC Machines, and no software save a browser, an e-mail program, and a "virtual machine" to run programs written in Java (a computer language designed for the Internet).
The laptop will have a basic processor made by AMD, flash memory instead of a hard disk, will be powered by batteries or a hand-crank, and will run open-source software.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the dominant computing device used in corporate America was a word processor made by Wang Laboratories.
Inside, there's a Dragonball processor, made by Motorola, running at 33 Mhz, and 16 megabytes of built-in flash memory.
Data were collected and processed by a KOAC-7800 weather data processor made by Koshin-Denki, Japan.
The dongle contains a powerful mobile processor made by Samsung -- the Exynos 5422, the same chip found in Samsung's Galaxy S5 phone.
