Google plans on designing its own chips: easier said than done

Amir Efrati on The Information has revealed the conversation between Google and some chip makers about “developing chips based on Google’s own preferred designs“. The idea here is says Efrati, to “bring more uniformity” and “be more competitive with Apple’s phones at the high end of the market” I have some questions for Google. For example,

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Samsung ATIV Book 9 Pro is another testimony on why 4K is mostly useless on a laptop

We don’t need latops with 4K UHD screens. At least not yet. The benefits are minimal for most users, because you’ll end using scaled resolutions. That happens on Retina MacBooks since their launch, and for example the 15-inch Retina models have 2800×1800 native resolution, but you end using 1680×1050 or 1280×800 scaled resolutions. With a

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Google as a hardware company

Walt Mossberg has published a column in The Verge in which there’s a little mistake just in the headline. When he says ‘It’s time for Google to make its own hardware‘ he forgets Google is already a hardware maker. It has shown that for example with its Chromecast devices, but above all with the two

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No more Windows 7 PCs in a year: why Windows users don’t upgrade to Windows 10?

Within a year, OEMs will only be able to ship PCs with Windows 10. Windows 10 market share isn’t for sure what Microsoft expected at this point. With a 7.94 percent (6.63% on Sept’15), it’s a little disappointing that Windows XP systems are still far from W10 with a 11.68 percent. The free update from

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Chrome OS won’t phase out, but Android merger seems inevitable

Four days. Google’s answer to WSJ report comes a little late. As if the people at Google themselves needed to meet and focus on the official statement. Strangely enough that statement doesn’t deny what the Journal discovered, and they confirm that they have “been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems“.

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Windows Hello and the convenience of biometrics

One of the most touted features of the new Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 convertibles from Microsoft is Windows Hello, the biometric authentication technology that allows you to login using facial recognition. The feature is nice for desktop PCs and laptops: you use them looking at the screen. That doesn’t happen on your mobile phone,

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