Month: November 2010

ARM Powered Lego Rubiks Cube

Posted by – November 13, 2010

ARM engineer David Gilday does this just as his hobby. Completely awesome.

PandaBoard, Texas Instruments OMAP4 ARM Cortex-A9

Posted by – November 13, 2010

It is released now, available for $174 to developers at http://pandaboard.org deliveries starting at the end of this month.

Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 3D Games in Android demo

Posted by – November 13, 2010

While the games that will be optimized for the faster graphics processing of Mali-400 will look even better, it’s still cool to see some 3D stuff running on this upcoming Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 processor platform.

Nufront ARM Cortex-A9 can run at 2Ghz for Desktop and Laptop usage

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Beijing based Nufront is presenting their ARM Cortex-A9 processor which they plan to launch in commercial ARM Powered desktop and laptop solutions soon. Here are some demonstrations of it powering an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and a Quake 3 game.

Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core performance for web browsing

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Here’s a demonstration showing that the second core in ARM Cortex-A9 processors allow for at least 50% performance improvement for such applications as the web browser in Android.

ARM CoreLink 400 Series

Posted by – November 13, 2010

This is a Cache Coherent Computer subsystem. Allows to deliver a whole bunch of new use cases, two Quad Cortex-A15 clusters can be fully I/O coherent with the MAli-T604 graphics.

Revo 1 by Revolution Robotics Java Standard Edition based robot

Posted by – November 13, 2010

This is a robot system based on the Marvell Armada plug computer system. Find out more at http://revolution-robotics.com

Java Embedded SE 6u21 synchronized with Java SE

Posted by – November 13, 2010

The latest Java release for ARM Powered devices is multi-processor optimized, allows to fully utilize hardware. All the same Java apps that run on an x86 desktop can now also work on ARM Powered devices.

The video crew from Chip Estimate TV

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Chip Estimate is a company owned by Cadence, among other features of its website are some videos which they produce with a pretty high production value. Watch their videos at their YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/chipestimate

ST Ericsson U8500 ARM Cortex-A9

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Check out the Meego OS running on this nice new super powerful ARM Cortex-A9 processor and some talk with a representative about the performance and potential of this processor platform.