Showing posts with label Lenovo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lenovo. Show all posts
Lenovo smartphone champion in China in 2013
According to Gartner, whose study was cited by The Register yesterday, Lenovo will overtake Samsung in China in 2013, in terms of smartphone sales. According to the analyst, it is the result of market entry and mid-range expanding.
AMD's quad-core version of the Ultrabook Trinity emerges
The data sheets of the new notebooks from Lenovo and Samsung dive two AMD processors Trinity series to 17-watt, AMD has not arrived yet, as the World Blog CPU found. So far, only the dual-core processor A6-4455M 2.1 GHz is known to put the example in Samsung's Series 5, are now added to the cheaper A4-4355m and the quad-core A8-4555M variant. With its TDP (Thermal Design Power, which is the maximum term wegzukühlende Power) of 17 watts, they are suitable for thin laptops, so Ultrabooks. Since this is a brand name of Intel, manufacturers may not call it that, instead, AMD has come up with the name Ultra Thin.
According to CPU World, the four cores of the A8-4555M running at 1.6 GHz (2.4 GHz in single-threaded), it has 4 MB of L2 cache and as the HD 7600G graphics core. The A4-4355m runs at 1.9 GHz (Turbo 2.4 in) and only has 1 MB cache and only the 7400G on board. For more information on pricing and availability as yet. The A8 notebook, also a Samsung Series 5 is not yet available.
Lenovo: We build better hardware than Microsoft
Lenovo can not by Microsoft Surface unruffled. During the presentation of the company's figures for the first quarter CEO Yang Yuanqing replied to questions from analysts that Microsoft was only one competitor of many. "Microsoft's strength lies in the software, the best hardware not deliver. Lenovo already," said Yang.
The self-confidence Lenovo draw from current quarterly figures. The computer manufacturer increased its revenues in the first quarter of its fiscal year to 35 percent increase of 5.92 billion to 8 billion dollars (6.5 billion euros). The company's profit for the three months from April to June rose year-on-year by 30 percent to 141 million U.S. dollars (115 million euros).
According to estimates by market researchers Lenovo delivered in the quarter from 12.8 million PCs. The Chinese thus remain behind Hewlett-Packard continues to second in ranking of the largest computer manufacturers. Despite stagnant overall market is growing Lenovo's market share to 15 percent by its own account. Thus come the Chinese market leader Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo leads with 15.7 percent market share, dangerously close.
The partnership with Microsoft to keep the Chinese also find that on the launch of Windows 8 in the fall will Lenovo bring out new products. The second generation of the ThinkPad Tablet to be seen with the new operating system to the end of August at the IFA in Berlin. At the fair will also find more details for the European market will be announced.
In June, Microsoft had announced the introduction of Windows 8 on 26 October own tablet to bring to market. That this - as has been speculated - lie with $ 199 priced well below competing products, industry experts as unlikely. Microsoft gave away for a profit to another disgruntled, besides Asus, other partners such as Dell, Samsung and Lenovo. Likely be a starting price of around $ 500, so at the same price as the iPad box.
Lenovo presents its first Windows 8 Tablet
Lenovo has unveiled its first Windows 8 Tablet: The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs on an Intel processor should only weigh about 600 grams and come in October simultaneously with Windows 8 on the market. "More detailed information on the European market," Lenovo wants at 30 August announce at IFA. A prototype was seen in June at Computex.
According to Lenovo, the 10-inch tablet a USB host port and a HDMI output and is 9.8 millimeters thick. For an additional charge, the producer with a pen, with which one can draw and write (Windows has a handwriting recognition on board). UMTS, and a docking station are optional. There is also the predecessor with pen, UMTS and docking station, but it runs on Android and with an ARM processor.
The now-8-announced Windows Tablet, however, has an X86 chip from Intel, the expected dual-core Atom Clover Trail. Tablets with this system-on-chip are expected from several manufacturers, such as Acer and Dell. It will be exciting how fast Windows runs on the platform and whether the battery life is on par with the competitors with ARM CPU. The previous Intel Atom Tablet disappointed in these disciplines.
In addition, Lenovo has announced the U.S. prices for two ultra-known books that have been introduced several months ago: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon will cost at least 1,300 U.S. dollars, which is available from T430u ThinkPad 780 U.S. dollars. The price of the ThinkPad Tablets betrayed not the manufacturer.
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