Posted on October 13, 2012 by Mitch Bowman
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It hasn’t been officially announced yet, but AllThingsD has it on good authority that processor maker AMD has plans to cut up to 30 percent of their workforce. Given that the company currently employees around 11,100 people, that means as many as 3,300 jobs could be on the chopping block. The official word from AMD is [...]
The hits just keep coming for Samsung’s component manufacturing division. Just days after it was discovered that HTC would be cutting down on their purchases of displays and flash memory from Samsung, it now looks like Apple might be looking elsewhere for a processor manufacturer. Samsung has been the sole manufacturer of the last several Apple [...]
9To5Mac (or a source associated with them) claims to have got their hands on a beta version of iOS 6, which contains strings which reference various bits of hardware on Apple’s upcoming device, in addition to the kernel that is running the show on the new operating system. According to the strings, the prototype iPhone runs [...]
The iPhone and iPod Touches house a decent processor which has been under-clocked to favour battery life over performance. The processors on the devices are therefore not fully exploited, but by over-clocking it is very much possible to squeeze more out of those circuit boards, but only on a jailbroken device. The processor of the iPhone [...]
One of the things iPhone and non-iPhone users dislike about Apple, is how they limit their hardware. They build these great mobile devices, and then don’t use them to their full potential. This is the main reason so many choose to jailbreak their devices and set them free. Apple does have reasons for the things [...]