Intel is launching at least 9 new Bay Trail-T chips for tablets

 Intel’s Bay Trail-T processors are energy-efficient chips for tablets which offer long battery life, decent performance, and support for Windows and Android software. Most Windows tablets with 10 inch or smaller screens already have Bay Trail-T processors, and a handful of Android tablets with Bay Trail chips are on the way.

 Now CPU World reports Intel is getting ready to launch a second wave of Bay Trail-T chips with at least 9 new models, including some that offer up to 16 percent faster graphics.

 The most powerful new chip is the Intel Atom Z3795. It’s a 1.6 GHz quad-core chip with maximum burst speeds of up to 2.39 GHz and GPU speeds between 311 MHz and 778 MHz and support for up to 4GB of RAM.

 The least powerful might be the Atom Z3735E which has a clock speed of 1.33 GHz, a max burst speed of 1.83 GHz, GPU speeds from 313 MHz to 688 MHz… and support for only up to 1GB of RAM.

 All of the new chips are quad-core processors with Intel HD graphics based on the same technology used in Intel’s 3rd-generation Core “Ivy Bridge” processors.

 You can find detailed specs for 7 of the 9 new chips at CPU World. They’re all expected to ship in the first or second quarter of 2014.

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TSMC is producing the A8 chips for the next iPhone amidst rumors of final Apple-Samsung break-up

 Reports from Taipei claim that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has started production on A8 chipsets for Apple's next iPhone. TSMC, the world's leading contract chip-maker, is now making A8 processors.

 According to Taipei's Commercial Times, TSMC is handling the bulk of the orders for logic and power management integrated chips that will be featured in the handset. The same media claims that the new iPhone is slated for the third quarter of 2014, which has been the regular schedule for Apple so far.

 TSMC have declined to comment, but its shares managed to rise up 2.33 percent after the rumors went wild. It's not clear at the moment whether Samsung, Apple's chip-manufacturing partner to Cupertino's woe, is involved in the A8 production at all. Taipei website TechNews claimed that TSMC has become the sole chipset contractor to Apple. 

 Still, it is more likely that the iPhone maker has merely diversified its supply chain, as we assume that Korean media would have went ballistic if Samsung were to lose such an important contract.

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  source: phonearena.com