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VIA WonderMedia WM8850, ARM Cortex-A9 in a Tablet

Posted by – May 27, 2012

This is the latest ARM platform from VIA, this time it’s ARM Cortex-A9, single-core up to 1.2Ghz with a Dual-core Mali-400 GPU.

VIA WonderMedia Prizm WM8710 ARM11 Gingerbread solution

Posted by – May 31, 2011

VIA’s subsidiary WonderMedia launches this new ARM11 platform for tablets, with a new much faster DSP for improved video playback, improved UI responsiveness, better graphics and 3D, the target still being to cheap low cost tablets which is a rapidly expanding market.

VIA WonderMedia SmartStream WiFi Direct to HDMI output

Posted by – May 31, 2011

VIA’s subsidiary WonderMedia is doing this ARM9 based platform to stream screen content to your HDTV wirelessly using WiFi Direct technology. It sounds like it ccould be a cheap way to wirelessly connect your Laptop, Tablet, even Smartphone to your HDTV without needing a cable. I wonder how WiFi Direct compresses stuff and how it manages high bitrate HD video, advanced 3D games and other such stuff.

Shenzhen Bly Electronics shows $60 VIA Wondermedia based laptops

Posted by – April 20, 2011

First seen a bit over a year ago such as in this video, the VIA ARM9 Wondermedia SoC and software solution is one of the platforms that makes it easy to make cheap laptops and tablets. Chrome OS software or Honeycomb seems to be needed for this type of $60 ARM Powered laptop solution to start to become viable solution. But probably also that faster processor with more RAM is also needed for full speed web browsing performance.

Wabook does $60 Android 10″ Laptop (Wondermedia)

Posted by – April 16, 2011

Some of those cheap ARM Powered laptops, but still ARM11 based.

MID Joyplus shows new Wondermedia, Rockchip, Telechips and Samsung Tablets


MID Joyplus is showing new Wondermedia WM8652 based 9.7″ tablet, a Rockchip Rk2818 10.1″ design and a 8″ 4:3 capacitive Telechips tablet. They still also have the Samsung Hummingbird 7″ for around $150.

VIA Technologies WonderMedia Android Tablet and Laptop solutions

Posted by – June 3, 2010

VIA Technologies ARM processors are powering the cheap Android Laptops I filmed such as the $65 FirstView PC706V and the $90 10″ PC100

$108 13.3″ Android Laptop, VIA8880 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, 5000mAh

Posted by – December 8, 2013

The cheapest 13.3″ Ultrabook killer, now selling at near $100, with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor WM8880 from VIA WonderMedia. Running smooth Android, but of course would be nicer with Chrome OS (or Chromium OS) and Ubuntu, on dual or triple boot. It has 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash, 1366×768 screen resolution, 5000mAh battery could do 10+ hours battery life if the display was a Pixel Qi ultra-low power sunlight readable LCD. This is where the upcoming Intel-killing Ultrabook-killing is going to come from.

Highlights of 2012 on ARMdevices.net

Posted by – December 31, 2012

See also and compare with my Highlights of 2011.

I posted 767 videos from 17 tradeshows, with 6.8 Million views on my YouTube channel (increasing my total YouTube view count to 21.6 Million), thank you for your 8696 comments, 13826 Likes, thank you for reading my blog, watching my videos, commenting, rating, sending news tips and sharing! Thanks to my 12885 followers on Google+! Since August 2011, I post most of my tech opinions on my Google+. Here are some of my Highlights in ARM Powered devices that I blogged on ARMdevices.net in 2012:

January:
ARM Powered Google TV launching at CES 2012!
ST Ericsson U8500 in Smartphones shipping in China
ST Ericsson U8500 runs Ice Cream Sandwich
Marvell Armada 1500, ARM Powered Google TV
Acer Iconia Tab A700, 1920×1200 10.1″ ICS Tegra3 Tablet
Sharp ICC 4K Technology, 1080p to 4K upscaling on 55″ Sharp 4K TV to be released soon
OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012
Huawei Ascend P1 and P1 S, OMAP4460 1.5Ghz with 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus screen
LG 55″ OLED TV shown at CES 2012
CES Monorail Google+ Hangout
LG Spectrum, 4.5″ HD IPS display, 1.5Ghz Qualcomm MSM8660 LTE
FXI Technologies Cotton Candy, Samsung Exynos 4210 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with a Mali-400
Eken $108 10.1″ and $75 7″ Ice Cream Sandwich Boxchip AllWinner 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A8
Toshiba shows 5.1″, 7.7″ and 13.3″ Tablets at CES 2012
Casio GB-6900 G-Shock, Bluetooth 4.0 watch
Canon HF M52, WiFi uploading to YouTube, to your iOS device and even live streaming to Qik!
Robert Scoble at CES 2012
Samsung 70″ 4K2K Quad-HD TV
Always Innovating OMAP4 HDMI Dongle
Qualcomm S4 MSM8960 Tablet Gaming performance
Geniatech shows Ice Cream Sandwich on Set-top-box using AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9
Motorola Kopin Golden-i at the Verizon booth at CES 2012
Sharp ICC 4K Technology, 1080p to 4K upscaling on 55″ Sharp 4K TV to be released soon
E Ink On Every Smart Surface
CES 2012 Monorail Hangout day3
CES 2012 Monorail Hangout day3
Panasonic HC-X900M
Pixel Qi at CES 2012
Phaeton DVIP $200 Android Watch uses MTK6516 with dual-SIM
Freescale i.MX6 Lite Series launched at CES 2012
ViewLink MyVu VizCom Headmounted Android video-streaming system
Rockchip RK2918 for set-top-boxes
Windows RT on OMAP4470 Texas Instruments 1.5Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet
OMAP5 at CES 2012
Samsung 55″ Super OLED at CES 2012
iRiver Kibot, this robot takes care of children
Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone 7.5 at CES 2012
Lenovo IdeaTab S2110, Android ICS Qualcomm Krait MSM8960 Tablet with Keyboard Dock
Orchard Inc Toughlet, Pixel Qi tablet for commercial ruggedized outdoor use
Status of Ubuntu for ARM Laptops and Servers
ARM quarterly profits up 45% year/year
ARM Powered Sony Google TV NSZ-GS7 launched
Teradici PCoIP, optimized remote desktop on TI’s OMAP4460
CES 2012 Highlights
February:
I was on The White House Google+ Hangout yesterday
Mary Lou Jepsen presents at Google X event: Reading images from your brain’s visual memory
Chrome for Android now released
Google Entertainment System (GES)
Google Wallet should use ARM TrustZone for 100% security
MediaTek MT6575 single-core ARM Cortex-A9 launched!
Archos sells more tablets than Asus and Acer, has Europe’s number one sub-400€ tablet market share
Some of my expectations for Mobile World Congress
University of Art and Design in Geneva at Lift 2012
Anaïs Saint-Jude on the 17th century origins of Information Overload, Twitter, Blogging
Adrianne Jeffries and David Birch on BitCoin, digital worldwide currencies at Lift 2012
Mute Watch at Lift 2012
Xavier Dietlin’s innovative displays for luxury watches
Sony Xperia NXT Series launched at Mobile World Congress 2012
HTC design chief Scott Croyle talks about the HTC One Design
Huawei Ascend D Quad, “World’s Fastest Smartphone”
Huawei MWC 2012 Press Conference (31-minute HD video!)
HiSilicon K3V2 Quad-core 40nm ARM Cortex-A9
LG Optimus Vu vs Samsung Galaxy Note vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Texas Instruments OMAP5430
Recon Head-up Android Display for Ski and Snowboard Goggles
Google Booth at MWC 2012, Archos, Tablets and Phones on Display
Noalia augments the sensitive of the capacitive screen in 3D
Neonode Optical IR Touch Screen technology at Mobile World Congress 2012
ARM TrustZone at Mobile World Congress 2012
Build your own Henri Maillardet Drawing Automaton for $70 with rulers, motors and the Arduino
Panasonic Eluga Power, Qualcomm Krait S4 MSM8960, 5″ 720p LCD screen
Dream Chip xBounds mirroring to their OMAP3 HDMI dongle
Eric Schmidt at Mobile World Congress 2012
Rockchip RK30xx ARM Cortex-A9 announced
Qualcomm APQ8064 Quad-core with Adreno 320
Qualcomm Browser/Desktop Optimizations for Krait!
Windows 8 on ARM Consumer Preview Mobile World Congress 2012 keynote presentation highlights
March:
I’m interviewed on DRadio Wissen, German National Radio
ST-Ericson L9540 1.85Ghz ARM Cortex-A9
Renesas MP5232 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with integrated LTE
VisualOn video playback at Mobile World Congress 2012
Oblong g-speak spatial operating environment
Chips&Media CODA9A0 presents 4K2K video decode for ARM Cortex-A15
Telstar shows $119 3.5″ Retina Display on MSM7227A ARM Cortex-A5
Jig.jp Augmented Reality Glasses at Mobile World Congress 2012
Awesome Huawei Horse sculpture at Mobile World Congress 2012, made of phones
28-minute Cyanogenmod unboxing of Sony Xperia S
Valueplus TizzBird Stick N1
Zeiss Cinemizer OLED Heads-up Display
Usmart shows compact Samsung Hummingbird PCB for cheap/compact Smartphones
Pierre Cardin $130 9.7″ IPS Boxchip Tablet
Shenzhen Wabook shows $93 Rockchip RK2918 Laptop
Huawei eSight Mobile, mobile/tablet app for Network Administrators
Woddon Industrial Limited shows iOS/Android remote controlled Helicopters, Airships and more
Joyplus shows Pixel Qi 10.1″ and 7″ tablets at CeBIT 2012
Sony Xperia S review by Mike Demuth
Gearomat, vending machine based on a web shop application
Appear, Kopin Golden-i Software provider, won 2nd price at CeBIT
ZXD 5″ Smartphone MT6573 $120 (dual-sim, HSPA), MT6575 $130
I’m on the BBC (on YouTube)
ARM Cortex-M0+ announced, to power the Internet of Things
Archos G10 xs, Archos Elements and Arnova 50€ announced
Zenithink ST-Ericsson U8500 3G 7″ 1024×600 Tablet for $150
Grandstream GXP2200, GXP2124, DECT phones announced at CeBIT 2012
April:
Smartphone repair at the Shenzhen Smartphones Market
Huaqiangbei Shenzhen Smartphones Market
Boxchip A13 sub-$55 7″ Capacitive ICS Tablet by www.yooe.com.cn, even cheaper ARM Cortex-A8!
Zopo ZP100 MT6575 4.3″ qHD $174 street price
$63 7″ capacitive Boxchip A10 Tablet
$120 iPad2-clones in Shenzhen China
Tablet Catwalk at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair
$110 7″ Boxchip Laptop (with capacitive screen) by Yones Toptech Co Ltd
$79 Daza Electronics 1024×600 Boxchip Tablet
Hanlin shows unbreakable Flexible E-Ink e-reader!
$60 Apical 5″ capacitive 800×480 Boxchip A10 tablet
smartdevices.com.cn shows OMAP4460 10.1″ and OMAP4430 8″ Tablets at the HKTDC Electronics
Rockchip RK3066 Launched at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
Eken 9.7″ for $130 and 7″ for $64
$49 7″ capacitive Rockchip Rk2906 tablet by Sawink
$85 Boxchip A10 10.1″ Laptop runs ICS now by Sunlike, 4000mAh for $6 more
$142 Galaxy Nexus clone, runs ICS on MT6575, with 4.65″ LCD
$128 RK3066 1280×800 10.1″ ultra-slim and light Dual-Core Cortex-A9 tablet by Alldocube Technology and Science Co Ltd
Dr the Hon Samson Tam Wai-ho, JP, Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Hyundai Brilliant H950, 5.2″ MT6575 phone runs Ice Cream Sandwich at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
Video-blogging at the Guangzhou Canton Electronics Fair
Yinlips shows 7″, 5″ and 4.3″ Android game players
$100 10.1″ Boxchip A10 Laptop/Tablet convertible by Kinstone
Pipo shows 10.1″ and 9.7″ RK3066 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
Pixel Qi announces 2048×1536 better-than-iPad3 screen, with 100x lower power consumption
iPhone4-clones on Qualcomm MSM7227 for around $100 in Shenzhen China
Fun things at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair
ICS on 5″ MediaTek MT6575 Dolphin A80 phone
The Shenzhen Speakers Factory
Highlights from my 2 weeks of video-blogging at 4 conferences in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou China
May:
Alexander Bard, History, Sociology of Tech at Next Berlin
VIA WonderMedia WM8850, ARM Cortex-A9 in a Tablet
Yuandao Window N90, Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core based
Ramos W17Pro miumiu, AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400
$55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 SMT line, mass producing the Boxchip A13 PCB
$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour
Bernhard Rosenkränzer talks Linaro Android Toolchain at Linaro Connect
$74 Boxchip A10 HDMI stick
Paul McKenney of IBM at Linaro Connect
Novacut Video Editor for Ubuntu Linux
David Rusling, Linaro CTO, at Linaro Connect
June:
Linaro improvements to Android 4.0.4 performance on the Pandaboard TI OMAP4430 platform
Android at Linaro, the future, by Zach Pfeffer
Mark Shuttleworth at Linaro Connect
Patrik Klinger Program Manager of the ST-Ericsson Snowball development platform at Linaro Connect
Asus Tablet 600 with Windows 8 RT on ARM Tegra3
Windows 8 RT on the Qualcomm S4 Snadragon development platform
Rob Chandhok, Senior Vice President of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies talks about the latest ARM Powered software advances
ARM Press Conference at Computex 2012
I’m being interviewed about how I started video-blogging and announcing a new feature for ARMdevices.net
Seshu Madhavapeddy, General Manager, Mobile Devices Business Unit at Texas Instruments at Computex 2012
ARM Servers Keynote: Ian Ferguson and Mark Shuttleworth at Computex 2012
MiTAC GFX ARM Server Launch: Gary Rumney and Ian Ferguson talk about ARM Powered Servers
$44 capacitive Rk2906 ICS tablet by Sawink at Computex 2012
Wexler Flexible E Ink reader
Windows 8 RT on a $68 7″ VIA 8850 ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet by Eken
Texas Instruments shows Wi-Fi Miracast wireless display
OMAP5 demonstrations at Computex 2012
e-Top 3 Technology hacks any R/C Controlled car into a Bluetooth remote car
Nufront at Computex 2012
Geniatech HDMI stick and AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core Set-top-box
VIA launches $49 APC, ARM11 computer platform
Ubuntu on Android demonstrated at Computex 2012
Calxeda ARM Powered Server
ARM and AMD partner for TrustZone security and for the future of Heterogeneous Computing
$146 9.7″ Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core from Daza Electronics at Computex 2012
Ice Computer, computer in a module
Geniatech Headquarters in Shenzhen
YF Technology Factory Assembly
YF Technology Factory SMT
Eken Camera Factory Tour
MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC AllWinner A10 HDMI Stick Factory Tour
Entering the JWD Factory
JWD 10.1″ AllWinner Factory Tour
JWD 7″ AllWinner A10 Tablet Factory Tour
Jeff Clavier, Venture Capitalist at LeWeb London 2012
Catmoji.com, Cats on the Internet!!
My Google I/O (June 27-29th) predictions
July:
Neonode to turn OLPC Pixel Qi Laptops into Tablets
FCC does it again, leaks new Archos generation
August:
E Ink buys SiPix Technology
ARM launches Mali-T624, Mali-T628 and Mali-T678 GPU
ARM Mali-T604 in Exynos5 ARM Cortex-A15 reference tablet shown at SIGGRAPH
Archos 101 XS review, Ultrabook-killing machine
Toshiba 4K Video-gaming!
Toshiba 4K Quad-HD 3840×2160 TVs with CEVO Engine upscaling/processing from 55″ to 84″
Panasonic 20″ 4K LCD Monitor at IFA 2012
145″ 8K Plasma by Panasonic shown at IFA 2012
Status of the TV Display industry by Paul Gray, Director of European TV Research for DisplaySearch
September:
E Ink at IFA 2012
$99 3G Allwinner A10 Eken G70 at IFA 2012
$39 AllWinner A13 Tablet (100K bulk) by Hott at IFA 2012
Minix RK3066 HDMI Stick at IFA 2012
LG 84″ 4K UD 3D TV
LG Google TV
Sharp IGZO LCD TFT Technolog
Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Samsung Galaxy Camera
Samsung ATIV Windows RT Tablet
RFTECH at IFA 2012
Zaidtek at IFA 2012
Sony Xperia Tablet S
Sony 84″ 4K TV KD-84X9005 with 4K X-Reality Pro
ZhongXiang Quad-core Exynos 4412 PCB Design House
HSA Foundation Keynote at IFA 2012
Sony Xperia T
LG L9, OMAP4430 4.7″ Android Phone
Sony PRS-T2 Reader, 6″ with WiFi Evernote/Facebook share
Rockchip’s 28nm HKMG RK31xx processor is sampling
October:
$67 RK3066 7″ $110 10.1″ , $173 9.7″ Retina from Sailing
$145 i.MX6 Quad 10.1″ 1024×600, $155 with 1280×800 from Yamay
$116 13.3″ Allwinner A10 Laptop by Yones Toptech
Ramos Exynos4412 Quad-core, RK3066 Dual-core Retina 9.7″ and Actions ATM7029 Quad-core
$118 MT6577 5″ WVGA, $90 7″ MT6577 WVGA, $130 MT6577 5.3″ qHD by U-Force
Geniatech ATV120, dual-core HDMI Stick
Malata Smartphones at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
$89 13.3″ Laptop on VIA WM8850 ARM Cortex-A9 single-core by Hivision
Archos Gamepad N64 emulation
Rockchip RK2928 and RK2926 launched at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
Archos Gamepad, gameplay demo including the N64/NES emulator
Archos Arnova Familypad
Archos 80 XS and Archos 97 XS
electronicAsia trade show introduction by managing director Ronald Unterburger
Coby Tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair
SCT shows DLP pico-projector in MT6577 dual-core phone
Anole Bluetooth sunglasses and secure encrypted bluetooth USB stick
E Ink Android Phone by Onyx International
Hi-802, i.MX6 Quad HDMI Stick
$59 RK3066 HDMI Stick
i.MX6, Exynos4412 Quad-core tablets shown by Dbetter
Onyx Boox Touch Moon Light (i62), Kindle Paperwhite competitor
Skyworth sold 800 thousand of these Rockchip RK2918 Tablets in Indonesia
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ARM Powered Chromebook launched by Google with Samsung Exynos 5 ARM Cortex-A15 on board, $249!!!
The bunch of Rockchip RK3066/RK2908 HDMI Sticks
SDC Technology shows RK3066, A10/A13, Tablets, Laptops, Set-top-box, HDMI Sticks and more
XBMC, RF remote, display settings on the Hiapad Hi-802 i.MX6 Quad HDMI Stick
Factory Tour: 9.7″ IPS 3G Allwinner A10 Tablet for $152 being assembled by Jia Chuang Bo
Factory Tour: $61 Allwinner A13 9″ Tablet being assembled at Jia Chuang Bo
Exynos4412 Tablet and Smartphone by Zhengdongxing
$46 7″ VIA 8850 ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet by pyd
PCB Design House: Rockchip RK3066/RK2926 at Shenzhen Inpad Digital Technology
Factory Tour: Allwinner A10 PCB SMT line at the Jia Chuang Bo factory
Become a $20/year Member of ARMdevices.net
$271 Zopo ZP900 5.3″ qHD IPS MT6577, $271 Zopo ZP300+ 4.5″ 1280×720 MT6577
MT6577 phones at Huaqiangbei Shenzhen market
Smartphones repair centers at the Huaqiangbei Smartphone market
$2 Tablet cases at the Shenzhen Tablet Market
HiMedia Q5 Smart TV Box, advanced HiSilicon Android Set-top-box
$82 13.3″ VIA 8850 Laptop (Macbook Air clone) and Allwinner A10S HDMI Stick by Wabook
$240 SmartDevices T30 10.1″ 1280×800 OMAP4470, $300 SmartQ U7, SmartQ U7H 7″ with built-in DLP projector
$64 7″ 1024×600 RK3066, $151 9.7″ IPS RK3066 by Sigo
$70 7″ 1024×600 Rockchip RK3066, $46 7″ 800×480 VIA 8850 by Guobangxingye
$81 Nufront NS115 ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core 7″ 1024×600 IPS Tablet by Xusit
$25 Allwinner A10 HDMI Stick by Ditter
MT6577 phones (Samsung/HTC/Apple clones) by Huida
Oppo Finder, 6.65mm thin Qualcomm 8260 Android phone
Wabook ARM Powered laptops, $71 10.1″ 1024×600, $51 7″ 800×480
Walking through the Smartphone market in Huaqiangbei Shenzhen China
Overview of the latest/best HDMI Sticks and Set-top-boxe out of Shenzhen China
Overview of the latest/best 7″ Tablets out of Shenzhen China
Calxeda ARM Cortex-A57 64bit Server Processor announced
GLOBALFOUNDRIES at ARM Techcon 2012
ARM Keynote: ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 64bit ARMv8 processors launched
AMD makes ARM Cortex-A57 64bit Server Processor

I’ll update this post to add my lists of highlights for November-December 2012 in the next couple of days.

Thanks for watching my videos of 2012, Happy New Year!

VIA launches $49 APC, ARM11 computer platform


VIA shows it’s 49 USD computer, it is powered by a Wondermedia WM8750 (ARM11 SoC) at 800MHz. It is distributed with Android and supports 720p playback, has 4 USB 2.0 port, one 100Mbps Ethernet port, one VGA out and one HDMI out port, and standard analog input/output audio. It is build in a Neo-ITX form factor that allows to be used on any case that support Micro-ATX, it is expected to be released at the end of June 2012.

Look forward to plenty new videos from Shenzhen, and the Linaro Connect conference starts tomorrow for a week

Posted by – May 26, 2012
Category: Opinions

Yesterday, I filmed 13 awesome new videos here in Shenzhen. But I booked into a little too cheap of a hotel with a 12kb/s upload internet connection so I’ll have to wait to upload those videos tomorrow when I arrive at the Linaro Connect Hong Kong conference. Please do check back. I’ve filmed the new VIA WonderMedia WM8850 ARM Cortex-A9 platform, AmLogic AML8726-MX, Rockchip RK3066, MT6575, i.MX6 Quad, I filmed an awesome new 7-minute video in a $55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 factory here in Shenzhen! All that and more coming up tomorrow.

Starting tomorrow, I will be video-blogging at the Linaro Connect Hong Kong conference. Where the worlds top ARM SoC software engineers meetup for a week talking about, deciding, working together on the next advancements in Linux on ARM. Let me know in the comments if you have some suggestions for what I should ask them about as they are working on the newest and latest most advanced Linux solutions on TI OMAP, Exynos, i.MX, ST-Ericsson and more!

My top-20 videos filmed at Computex 2011 in Taiwan

Posted by – June 8, 2011

I just returned from 10 days video-blogging over 44 videos from Taiwan. Here’s my list of my top-20 best Computex 2011 videos:

1. Pixel Qi launches 10.1″ super thin 1280×800 screen, their first showing of the 1280×800 resolution Pixel Qi screen to be mass manufactured in Q4, they also will mass produce 7″ in Q3, and listen to this video for more talk by Mary Lou Jepsen on the latest status and news on Pixel Qi in the industry.

2. Latest e-ink e-reader news from Freescale, check out the new Android friendly i.MX508 that may be used in the new Nook and Kobo to also use Android as software basis for e-ink e-reader innovation. This video is also featuring the new Acoustic Pulse Recognition (APR) touch screen technology integrated in a prototype e-reader by Tyco Electronics.

3. ShiZhu Technology shows Pixel Qi Tablets, ShiZhu Technology is a big Chinese manufacturer, they can now mass produce Android Tablets with Pixel Qi screens. This video features comparisons of its matte Pixel Qi screen compared with the glossy Archos 70 Internet Tablet screen and with HTC flyer with a matte anti-reflective layer.

4. MHL now in several phones at Computex 2011, the MHL protocol for sending HDMI over Micro-USB is now not only on the best ever smartphone the Samsung Galaxy S2, it’s also now in HTC Sensation, HTC Flyer, Evo 4G and Evo 3D phones and more to come.

5. The whole ARM Powered Tablet or Laptop with Pixel Qi screen can run on a relatively small and cheap $3 1W solar panel, Solar panels could be built-in to the bezel, on the back of tablets or laptops or on a flip-out screen protector to thus be able to power the whole tablet and laptop and charge its battery just from direct or indirect sunlight. This means children in Africa, India, other places with a lot of Sun but little power, could be getting Internet connected ARM Powered devices that can run just on sun power. Pixel Qi is able to demonstrate that this works, but they didn’t have the time to set it up at Computex and the day I was there to film it was half-cloudy in Taipei (it had been raining some of the days during Computex) so perhaps not optimal for filming the actual demonstration. Pixel Qi could be releasing an official video showing pretty soon on their blog proving that this works today.

6. Texas Instruments talks Memory Bandwidth and Desktop Computing performance on the OMAP4430, TI suggests that they may have the fastest memory bandwidth on their OMAP4430, OMAP4460 and on the newly announced OMAP4470 that goes to 1.8Ghz.

7. Cupp Computing turns every Laptop into an ARM Powered laptop with hard drive to SSD replacement module, this is really awesome, it means that all Intel/AMD x86 powered laptops can easily get added an ARM Processor to their motherboards, or added in replacement of the Hard Drive with an SSD, to provide every laptop with the option to run up to 40 hours on a battery on a button switch. Imagine if by a button switch you could automatically resume your x86 work in the ARM version of Windows, thus extending your battery runtime by 10x or more. This could be a great transitional solution from x86 to ARM for people not yet totally confortable with going away from x86.

8. HD Video Conferencing on Texas Instruments OMAP4430, 720p and 1080p SIP and Skype video conferencing is now possible on the modern ARM Powered smartphones and tablets, just amazing.

9. Hands-on with Nvidia Kal-El Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 1.2Ghz (or more) prototype tablet, Nvidia continues their run towards bringing Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 to the market, to be clocked at least with 1.2Ghz maybe more, it may reach the commercial top brand name Honeycomb tablets after August, normally well in time before Christmas. Nvidia has upgraded their graphics and video playback support significantly.

10. ZiiLabs ZMS-20 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, with ZiiLab’s Stemcell alternative to DSP/GPU for massive multi-threaded computing it seems to run Honeycomb smoothly on their Jaguar 10.1″ and 7″ reference design tablets.

11. Nufront Cortex-A9 (up to) 2Ghz runs Ubuntu 11.4 ARM Edition, they show that they have completed their tablet reference design, now just gearing up for commercial announcements for products using their new powerful chip.

12. Qualcomm says their Dual-core strength is in being asynchronous, Qualcomm’s implementation of the ARM Dual-core is about to reach many of the top most powerful ARM Powered devices. With the HTC Senstation coming out now, Asus Memo coming out later and many other smartphones and tablets in preparation.

13. ZTE Light tablet featuring their 7″ Pixel Qi screen (not yet matte, still glossy on that prototype).

14. Asus Memo, worlds first 7″ Honeycomb, Honeycomb looks great on 7″, even with it only being optimized for larger 1280×800 screens for now. Maybe it is too bad that Asus only wants to sell this with a 3D screen and this expensive looking Bluetooth headset/remote control MiMic thing. I also filmed another 7″ Honeycomb tablet, the Viewsonic 7x using Tegra2.

15. Samsung Origen, the new $199 Exynos 4210 development board, possibly the most powerful publicly released ARM Powered development board, to be sold for $199, featuring Samsung’s latest Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Mali-400 graphics, fast DDR3 RAM and other features of fast memory bandwidth.

16. ARM President Tudor Brown Computex 2011 keynote, 15 minutes of his Computex 2011 keynote talking about how ARM is dominating the world.

17. ARM keynote at Computex 2011, Ian Drew is the Executive VP of Marketing at ARM, here’s my recording of most of his keynote speech. Sorry for missing out the first 3 minutes in this video, and my audio volume is a bit low you have to turn up your playback volume to the maximum to hear things clearly enough.Q Which was fun to come right after the Intel keynote. A notable quote from this keynote is this part: “Multiple options is always better than one size fits all”.

18. Qualcomm Dragonboard, $300-$500 Dual-core MSM8660/APQ8060 development board to work on Qualcomm’s Dual-core platform.

19. VIA WonderMedia Prizm WM8710 ARM11 Gingerbread solution, now VIA also has a newer faster DSP-accelerated Gingerbread solution for low-cost Android tablets.

20. ARM Powered Android to lower cost and power consumption of Point-of-sale setups, POSLab shows in this video how they are implementing ARM Powered solutions runing POS software on top of Android to significantly lower the cost and power consumption of Point-of-sale systems to be used by all stores around the world.

ARM Powered Tablets by Shuttle (soon laptops/desktops?)

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Shuttle is one of the major compact motherboard makers, they are now moving a lot of their ressources into making ARM Powered solutions, some may be branded by Shuttle, other might be ODM, based on ARM Processors by Texas Instruments, Nvidia and VIA Wondermedia.

Skytex develops i.MX53 tablets

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Skytex is working on getting more performance in their low cost tablets, using Freescale’s new 1.2Ghz i.MX53 with better video and graphics, the Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 and the new VIA Wondermedia ARM9 with a better DSP.

Expectations for CES next week

Posted by – December 30, 2010

Between January 3rd and 11th, I am going to video-blog from CES 2011, make sure to often refresh my RSS feed and/or subscribe to my YouTube channel, (at last year’s CES I published 75 videos), I’ll try to feature the coolest ARM Powered devices that I can find at the show.

Have you got any scoop or ideas for what I should video-blog at CES? What questions would you like me to ask the representatives of which specific companies? If you read on any other blogs about any interesting products showing at this CES, please post your suggestions for what I should film here in the comments of this post. You can also send me an email: charbax@gmail.com or you can even sms/call me or leave a voicemail between January 3rd and 11th at my US phone number +1 (702) 238 8630 (only active when I am in the USA).

Here are some of the things I am expecting or hoping to video-blog at CES:

– Lots of Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb stuff. Android in everything!

– Several dual-core tablets are rumored. Nvidia’s Tegra2 is rumored could be one of the stars of the show, rumored to be the “reference design” for Honeycomb. Sounds great, but I am also looking forward to all the other upcoming Dual-Core ARM Processor platforms and I am wondering if products featuring these will be shown at this CES already.

– How soon are the Dual-Core smart phones and tablets being released and at what prices? Will LG, Samsung, Motorola or other present phones at CES to beat Nexus S already?

– ARM Powered Chrome OS Laptops and Google TV Set-top-boxes, I will be looking for the first clues of these products.

– Tablets, more tablets? Any new design features to allow tablets to be used more for productivity? Are some Honeycomb designs like Archos without the hardware Android buttons? Designs with foldable/swivel keyboards?

– Pixel Qi 7″, 10.1″, big OEM announcements? Hopefully these LCD screens will be ready for Kindle-LCD, ipad2, samsung galaxy tab2 and more hopefully mass manufactured and everywhere within the next 3 months.

Texas Instruments next generation nHD pico projector in all kinds of phones, tablets and other devices at CES? Or not to be shown before February at Mobil World Congress? I’d like to see this type of pico projector be used together with sensors to detect when touching in user interfaces projected for example on a table (see my video of a table-pico-projector prototype UI demonstrated at CeBIT 2007), this could turn any ARM Powered device, even pocketable, into a large screen computing device.

– New ARM Powered platforms for cheaper and better smart phones, tablets and laptops? Rockchip may show ARM Cortex-A8 RK29xx, Broadcom may show BCM2157 for sub-$75 Android phones, is it time for VIA and Telechips to show new faster or/and cheaper solutions for new cooler low-cost Tablets, Laptops and Set-top-boxes?

– Are the new ARM Processors capable of full 1080p at up to 60fps with full high profile and full high bitrates of every codecs?

– Nintendo 3DS is coming in February/March, any other manufacturers to mass manufacture products to use that parallax barrier 3D screen from Sharp that doesn’t require 3D glasses?

– Are ARM Powered NAS boxes and Pogoplugs/Sheevaplugs going to be powerful enough to download and seed BitTorrents at full speed, allow for full speed gigabit LAN file sharing even on the cheaper solutions?

– How much is going to be LTE, how soon and are anyone showing anything to do with White Spaces yet? How soon could that be deployed and at which cost and with what range and authentication features?

– I’d like to see Sanyo release a HD3000 with WiFi/Bluetooth and optics and sensors closer to that of a DSLR. Or it will be interesting to see more DSLR type optics and sensors in more video camcorders and see how affordable those setups can become. It seems Sony, Panasonic and all other major camera makers are going in that direction for the next generation of best HD camcorders.

Please post your expecations/hopes in the comments or send me an email!

Chrome OS brings $99 laptops

Posted by – December 14, 2010

Chrome OS greatest achievement will be the disruption of the whole Windows/Intel/Apple business models of artificially increasing prices of Laptops year after year, as those old silicon valley giants are always frightened to see their multi-hundred billion dollar industry disappear.

What the One Laptop Per Child successfully initiated after 2006, forcing Intel to introduce the Netbook market segment, thus lowering the average price per laptop consumers would purchase by $100-200 overnight, Google is attempting to do even more aggressively with Chrome OS.

These past 2 years, I reviewed several ARM Powered $99 Laptops already, from such Chinese as Hivision, MenQ, Firstview or Indian AllGo Systems, powered by VIA’s Wondermedia or other of the affordable ARM9 or ARM11 platforms that are available to these manufacturers for affordable implementation at that time. Sure enough, ARM Cortex A8 and A9, more RAM, faster SoCs are more appropriate for full laptop performance. Every 18 months chips are twice as fast or twice cheaper. How much more do you think that a new ARM Cortex-A9 SoC platform with a larger higher resolution LCD screen costs today compared to an ARM9 from 2 years ago? $30 more? The same? These cheap ARM Powered laptops are interesting because they are early products that have been giving us a taste of the ARM Powered laptops that are coming.

Sure the Cr-48 that Google are beta testing is Intel powered. That is just a question of beta testing of software. ARM Powered Chrome OS probably needs ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors to be optimized for large screen laptop computing. The Chrome Browser requires a lot of RAM to be fast. All the I/O and memories on the SoC need to be accelerated to the point the Chrome web browser in a laptop form factor feels 100% as fast on ARM as on Intel.

It may be that the current generation ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 are more suitable for Tablets and Smart Phones than for Laptops and Desktops. More likely, it is that Google has enough to beta test on Intel that they cannot advertise simultaneous beta testing on ARM at this moment as well.

In any ways, it might still be months before mass market Chrome OS laptops are sold to consumers. So clearly the Cr-48 being Intel doesn’t have to be an indication of ARM being “not ready” but instead might be simply a question of Google focusing their beta testing program on Intel for now. ARM and Intel based Chrome OS may still actually be released simultaneously to consumers next year.

Also consider the fact Intel CEO Paul Otelinni is also on the board of directors of Google, mysteriously. And that pressure from Intel on Google might convince Google to do such things as Chrome OS and Google TV with Intel first, all the while Google knows that ARM is the best platform eventually for both projects. Although Google TV is released to consumers, it’s still limited in size to one similar to beta testing, it’s like when Google releases a Nexus phone, they don’t do it to sell many Nexus phones, they do it to push their software platform forward, which always turns out that the industry combined sells more Google based devices than all other.

This is what I think Google plans to achieve with lower hardware pricing:
– $99 Google TV -> turns YouTube into larger share of people’s daily 5-hour TV watching, 10x increase in YouTube bandwidth when succeeded, changes outcome of elections brings more visionary high-tech favorable politicians to power
– $99 Chrome OS laptops -> realizes cloud computing dream, more ads served per user, enterprise all adopt Chrome OS for speed, security and price, brings in ecosystem for pay-per-web-app.
– $99 Pixel Qi Tablet/E-readers -> platform for Google e-books, full web experience on-the-go, more reading, outdoor use, more personal connection to the web
– $99 Gingerbread Smart Phones -> Google Voice true VOIP replaces telcos, eventually White Spaces is brought in to provide free wireless broadband. Google pushes Local services, location-based advertising brings in next hundred billion in revenues.

It only makes sense Google’s platforms will have the absolute largest market share in all these market segments. In all these segments, Google never plans to make profit on hardware, the hardware business is outsourced to manufacturers and brands, Google just plans for their platforms to dominate.

Price of Chrome OS laptops is the true revolution here.

As Google isn’t yet announcing the price, it may be hard for analysts to grasp the potential here.

How can a Google Chrome OS notebook be sold at $99?

1. ARM Powered laptops cost half the price to manufacture compared to Intel, even the Intel one can be sold $199, deduct at least Windows licence and Hard drive costs compared to a “regular” netbook, that’s 5-10 times cheaper than the Macbook air.

2. Removing hard drive, simplifying motherboard lowers cost.

3. Google makes money later on ads. Seriously, do a calculation how much advertising money Google makes on each of their users, divide their yearly reported revenues by the number of users, Chrome OS users will see even more Google ads than other.

4. Google and Telecoms make money later on selling on-demand 3G/4G wireless data. Even as this should be sold without compulsory subscription plan, the pricing and ease of use should be so tempting, a large share of users will potentially spend hundreds of dollars for on-demand wireless data service. This should be built-in, perhaps not even a SIM card slot, allows Google to also negociate 3G/4G bandwidth deals in all countries worldwide. If prices change in other countries, simply click boom to accept and you’ve got on-demand wireless bandwidth.

5. Google and Developers will make money later on selling apps. Eventually monetization of web apps will be more than just ads. Even enterprise stuff like Google Apps, Citrix stuff and other Virtualization of Windows/Mac x86 apps, those kinds of services could generate up to thousands of dollars per user in the enterprise.

Critics of Google’s Chrome OS based cloud computing need to understand a few things about where it is and where it’s going:

– HTML5 apps can work offline and don’t have to be slower because of connectivity. Including Google Docs and potential cloud assisted video and photo editing, all can work offline.

– Native code and powerful 3D will be part of it. This means basicaly all apps you can imagine that are on Windows and Mac can also work here. I expect new cloud based versions of http://youtube.com/editor means even video editing professionals will rather want to use this type of cloud based apps for instant encoding and rendering using the power of thousands of grid processing servers on the cloud.

– WebGL and other advances in web browser technology increases potential complexity of web apps.

– A 32GB SD card costs less than $49, a 500GB 2.5″ external USB hard drive costs $49, both work in Chrome OS, I even envision a Chrome OS laptop design with available slot to insert a 2.5″ hard drive and have it only powered when accessed.

– You can backup and sync your cloud easily on a $49 ARM Powered NAS such as a pogoplug in your home, connect any $99 3.5″ 2TB hard drive to that.

– Citrix has demonstrated, any x86 app you want can be virtualized in Chrome OS to actually run faster thanks to cloud grid app hosting than any local PC.