If there were any doubts that Intel wants to embrace Android as a Windows equal, they were erased this week. Speaking at the chipmaker’s investor meeting on Thursday, Kirk Skaugen, general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, said the following: The reality is for the last decade we’ve been essentially 100 percent Microsoft …

Apple’s A7 chips will feel some 64-bit heat from Intel and Android next year. Intel is readying a 64-bit Bay Trail Atom platform for Android, according to Hermann Eul, Intel’s general manager, mobile and communications group, speaking at the company’s investor day on Thursday. “It’s not only about Windows 64-bit, we’ve been talking about Android as well,” Eul said. An …

Toshiba is claiming smartphone-esque battery life for a laptop that will be released in Japan on Friday. The dynabook Kira V634 will run for 22 hours on a charge, according to a write-up at Nikkei Business. The V634 model 27KS comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-4200U Haswell processor, 8GB of RAM, a 128GB solid-state drive, and a 13.3-inch display …

Intel is trying to give a much-needed boost to Windows 8.1 tablets with a new holiday “Buying Guide.” Front and center are tablets (PDF) like the Dell Venue 8 Pro, HP Omni 10, and Lenovo Miix 2. All of the tablets in the guide use new Intel Atom Z3000 quad-core “Bay Trail” processors. The 8-inch Dell Venue (see CNET’s hands-on …

A day after Samsung waxed eloquent about its 64-bit chip plans, a report out of Asia claims that high-end 64-bit smartphones are due from the company next year. The electronics giant will launch flagship smartphones with 64-bit CPUs (central processing units) in 2014, Taipei-based Digitimes reported Thursday, citing sources. The phones will also sport WQHD (2,560×1,440 resolution) displays and 16-megapixel …

Samsung is throwing its formidable weight behind AMOLED display tech — which could be seen as a challenge to Apple. The South Korean electronics giant, maker of the Galaxy line of smartphones, made it clear Wednesday that active-matrix organic LED (AMOLED) displays are its future. “We were the first to commercialize AMOLED back in 2007. This year we successfully produced …

The iPad Air is getting plenty of rave reviews, but Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX just took it in a display shootout. When DisplayMate Technologies tested the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, the iPad Air, and Google’s Nexus 10, the Fire 8.9 “leapfrogged into the best-performing tablet display that we have ever tested,” according to the results posted Monday. The Kindle Fire …

ARM, which designs processors for smartphones and tablets, has disclosed a new graphics chip design with many more processor cores than in the current generation. A future Mali-T760 graphics processing unit (GPU) — due in products in the coming years — will have up to 16 processor cores, ARM said Tuesday in a statement. By comparison, the iPhone 5S’ A7 …

Samsung Galaxy Round with curved display: ‘a major and very important new display technology.’ Samsung The curved display on Samsung’s Galaxy Round offers distinct advantages in reducing reflections and the high glossiness of flat displays, according to a report out Tuesday. “There is widespread misunderstanding regarding curved displays. They aren’t simply a marketing gimmick as has been widely reported,” Raymond …

The Moto X and its gorgeous display take Round 2 against the iPhone 5S. A couple of weeks back, I wrote that the iPhone 5S bested the Moto X on physical design. This week I’m writing about the display. Mostly because I’m wondering why Apple hasn’t switched to AMOLED displays. After using the X’s AMOLED display for the last few …