This is the first time that Marvell is showing the PXA2128 in a workable tablet prototype form factor. This is the new high-end processor from Marvell with a 1.2Ghz Dual-core doing the intensive tasks and a slower lower power co-processor doing the basic background tasks, providing a solution that can peak at high performance and go back to low power mode automatically.
Month: October 2011
ARMv8 is 64bit, look for video interviews soon
Posted by – October 27, 2011
ARM announced the ARM v8 for 64bit computing. I was streaming Mike Muller’s keynote on that and I will post the full keynote video later today. I’ll try to interview ARM representatives and journalists now about what that means, check back later for that. Let me know in the comments here which questions I should ask.
Microsemi Smart Fusion Custumizable SoC
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Rajiv Nema, product line manager, describes how Microsemi’s Smart Fusion works, to combined the ARM Cortex-M3 with FPGA to provide for customizable system on chip.
Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Mentor Graphics is one of the major EDA providers of the ARM industry. At their booth they are showing some impressive 3D graphical user interfaces that they say is easy and cheap to implement on ARM Powered devices to make them more appealing and to differentiate in the UI design, and they are also showing an auto-balancing lego robot built using Texas Instruments Sitara microcontrollers and the nucleus real-time software.
Ubuntu at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
They are showing Ubuntu 11.10 running on the Toshiba AC100, and Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition running on the OMAP4 Pandaboard.
Infoworld: Intel lost the tablet war, desktop/server is next
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here’s an article by Bill Snyder on Infoworld.com about how ARM is winning the battles against Intel in smartphones and tablets and may also win it for the desktop: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/intel-lost-the-tablet-war-the-desktop-next-177234
Live video stream from ARM TechCon
Posted by – October 27, 2011
ARM CTO Mike Muller keynote starts now.
Metaio Augmented Reality showcase
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here’s a pretty cool looking augmented reality application, he points the smartphone at a city built with paper, and the phone displays some augmented reality overlay on top.
BrightSideOfNews.com John Oram and Gil Russel
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here’s a casual interview with powerhouse silicon valley expert editors at http://brightsideofnews.com about the status of the ARM industry, about where they think ARM Cortex-A15 is going, about what they think of ARM vs Intel, AMD and more.
I’m Watch, i.MX233 Android Bluetooth wrist watch
Posted by – October 27, 2011
They are launching before Christmas, it’s a $299/299€ Android watch, running on the Freescale i.MX233 ARM9 processor, it has a 1.54″ capacitive touch screen, with Bluetooth it synchronizes with any Android phone, iPhone or other smartphone, there is an API to adapt Android apps to it.