Cor Blimey, the mobile chip space is heating up, as the various players carry out their own little ARM’s race to beef up on performance, mainly through the addition of more cores.

Wowing the crowd on the first day of its developer conference in San Francisco, chipmaker Intel showed off its WiDi technology, beaming content back and forth between a handheld tablet and large-screen HDTV wirelessly.

In Singapore recently, RCR was privileged to be able to get a glimpse behind the chipmaking curtain at GlobalFoundries’ fab 7, where wafer upon wafer of chips are churned out daily from within the impressive maze of cleanrooms.

AMD’s Fusion APU looks like a monster. Its future CPUs due in the first half of 2011 feature not only the traditional CPU but also a multi-functional graphics chip built in as well.