Mobile processors can't provide the same performance as their larger cousins, but work in miniature desktop computers and low-performance machines known as nettops.

Quad-core processors are a big step up in CPU technology, and they undoubtedly represent the future of mobile processors. The real question of whether they fit into the present is debatable.

When Apple launched the iPhone 5S, they also launched their new Apple A7 mobile processor, which is a 64-bit mobile processor, and this was not something other smartphone makers, or processor ...

Whenever you think of mobile computing, Arm is likely the first company that comes to mind, or it should be. Billions of Arm chips are used on ...

MediaTek, a processor maker, has partnered with ARM, a processor designer, to announce the first true eight-core mobile chip. Dubbed the Octa-Core 6592, the chip enables all eight cores to work ...

Pixelworks, a video alchemist skunkworks in San Jose, has been quietly developing a new, back-end mobile processor that works for both movies and now, video games.

Not surprisingly, this year's smartphones feature faster processors than those from last year—that happens every year. But what is new this year is the predominance of machine learning features ...