Category: Chip provider

ARM Cortex-A15

Posted by – October 28, 2011

Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of the new and upcoming ARM Cortex-A15 processor, with its new optimized design it can reach huge new ARM Powered performance.

ARM Mali Graphics news at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by – October 28, 2011

The ARM Media Processing Division’s Jem Davies and Ian Smythe talk about the latest news on the ARM Mali Graphics technology, implementation, performance and the technological direction which we can look forward to.

ARM Cortex-A7, big.LITTLE

Posted by – October 28, 2011

Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of this new ARM Processor announcement with information about how it is designed, how it works, where it can be used.

ARM CTO Mike Muller Keynote

Posted by – October 28, 2011

ARM is launching the 64bit ARMv8 processor. This is the keynote video. I’ll link to the official video if they release it.

Freescale i.MX6 Quad Core at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by – October 28, 2011

Freescale is showcasing the performance of their Quad Core ARM Cortex-A9 i.MX6 Quad processor.

Latest news from Texas Instruments at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by – October 27, 2011

The OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor is taped out, they are about to show impressive samples soon, they will then be tweaking and optimizing it before release in commercial products within about a year. OMAP4 is being launched in the Motorola Razr and in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones, each more awesome than the other. Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 works awesomely on OMAP4, Honeycomb 3.2 tablets like the Archos 101 G9 are being released now, TI is also looking forward to power products such as Laptops that run Chrome OS, Ubuntu and Windows 8.

Marvell Armada PXA2128 processor in a tablet prototype

Posted by – October 27, 2011

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.

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.

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.