The announcement today will increase the so-called clock speed of the fastest mobile processor to 1.2 gigahertz, or 1.2 billion cycles a second in normal mode, from 1.1 gigahertz.
It's pretty amazing what can be done on a mobile device these days, and that gap is only going to shrink as multi-camera systems and mobile processors continue to get better.
Only mobile processors needed to be low power, while desktops are aimed at performance.
Use Notebookcheck's Comparison of Mobile Processors (CPU Benchmarks) to see how the Z2760 compares with the processor in your old Toshiba.
In the first quarter of this year, Atom processors as a percentage of Intel mobile processors fell to 20.3percentt, compared with 24.3percentt in the fourth quarter of last year and 23.5percentt in the third quarter, according to Rau, citing figures to be published later this week.
The UX52VS has the option of Intel's ultra-low voltage i5 or i7 mobile processors, up to 10 GB of RAM and an optical disc drive.
Apple is looking to shift production of its mobile device processors to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company sooner rather than later, according to Taiwan-based newspaper The Commercial Times (via AppAdvice).
Its testing had found that it made the browser liable to crash, slowed it down (because the mobile processor struggled to run the code) and anyway meant that Apple would be forever yoked to Adobe – reliant on it to update Flash, which would happen at Adobe's rather than Apple's pace.
Microsoft has already laid some of the groundwork for additional applications back in December when it announced that it would be bringing its apps to the company's mobile processors, in an attempt to get hardware makers to build a wider variety of devices for the operating system.
The number of bits is important, because every mobile processor up to this has been a 32-bit chip, which means in essence that it can only address 4GB of working memory.
