http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/possible.verizon.iphone.candidates/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/qualcommchip-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Qualcomm today updated its MDM family of cellular chipsets with some of the first anywhere to support dual, advanced 3G and 4G formats. The MSM7630 supports GSM, HSPA and HSPA+ standards but will also work on CDMA phone networks and support up to EVDO Revision B for 3G on those services. The addition would let a phone work on a CDMA carrier like Sprint or Verizon but still work with AT&T or T-Mo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/possible.verizon.iphone.candidates/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/arm.eagle.to.be.multi.core.28nm/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/armcortex-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />ARM president Tudor Brown at a presentation on Friday provided early details of his company's next-generation architecture for smartphones and other handhelds. Nicknamed Eagle, the processor design will focus on speed and come with a multi-core main processor, "high-end" graphics and better security against hardware-related attacks. Power use will be kept down by using GlobalFoundries' new 28 na... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/arm.eagle.to.be.multi.core.28nm/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/apple.may.see.future.atom.as.too.hungry/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/intelmoorestown-idf.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has flatly rejected Intel's Moorestown Atom platform for being too power-hungry, a rumor claims today. Unnamed industry contacts say Intel reportedly approached Apple on its own to suggest the ultra-mobile platform but that the Mac creator rejected it outright due to power concerns. According to the Fudzilla source, Apple needed idle power consumption about ten times lower than what Moores... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/apple.may.see.future.atom.as.too.hungry/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/16/dual.core.a9.and.iphone/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/iphone3gs.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />ARM has teased the future of the iPhone and other smartphones with added early details for its first dual-core mobile processor design. The Cortex A9 will shrink the manufacturing process from the 65 nanometers used on the single-core Cortex A8 used in the iPhone 3G S to 45 nanometers, letting it add the extra core without significantly affecting the power draw. Although it consumes more energy a... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/16/dual.core.a9.and.iphone/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/21/apple.arm.cortex.job/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0905/armcortex.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has posted a job listing that hints at the company's future hardware direction for the iPhone, iPod touch and possible other devices. The position for a High Perform/Low Level Programmer asks for someone familiar not only for programming assembly-level code for ARM processors, which Apple already uses in its handhelds, but for the NEON vector math units used in the newer Cortex architecture... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/21/apple.arm.cortex.job/ Thu, 21 May 2009 14:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/30/chip.design.at.apple/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0804/pasemi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Not only is Apple is the middle of designing its own chips, it is experiencing some initial difficulties, claims the Wall Street Journal. The company acquired chip designers PA Semi approximately a year ago, and is acknowledged by people including CEO Steve Jobs to be using the expertise to help prepare for future multi-touch devices, namely iPods and iPhones. Such devices are expected to produc... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/30/chip.design.at.apple/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/27/apple.hires.ati.cto/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/amdmobilityradeonhd4860.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has quietly signaled a new emphasis on graphics by hiring an influential graphics chipset designer from AMD. The former CTO for the company's ATI graphics product group, Bob Drebin, has indicated on his LinkedIn profile that he is now a Senior Director for an unnamed group within Apple. What products he covers are unknown, though in addition to leading GPU engineering at ATI since 2000, he... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/27/apple.hires.ati.cto/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/freescale.netbook.arm.cpu/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/freescalemxsboard.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Freescale began its year today by introducing a new i.MX chip it hopes will gain a foothold in netbooks. The i.MX515 is based on the same ARM architecture shared by many smartphones and set-top boxes but is tuned for the higher performance of the mini notebooks, with clock speeds ranging between 600MHz and 1GHz. It also touts rare support for DDR2 memory and an integrated OpenGL graphics core ca... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/freescale.netbook.arm.cpu/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/18/apple.buys.into.img/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0812/iphone-handheld.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has made a heavy investment into another chip manufacturer, according to an announcement. The company has bought 8.2 million shares in the Imagination Technologies Group, giving it a ownership stake of 3.6 percent. IMG is perhaps best known for producing the PowerVR series of chips, used to accelerate graphics in mobile devices; as a result, Apple may now be in a position to use the chips ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/18/apple.buys.into.img/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/papermaster.vs.ibm/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/pdosml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mark's Papermaster's new role at Apple in no way represents a threat to IBM, according to new filings. Papermaster is to replace Tony Fadell at the head of Apple's iPod group, but has been accused of violating a non-compete agreement signed when he was employed by IBM, where he helped oversee chip design. In his formal response to IBM, Papermaster claims that Apple and IBM do not compete with ea... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/papermaster.vs.ibm/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:00:00 GMT