Category: OS

Rockchip Rk2918 is the first with Skype/QQ HD video chat hardware decode/encode

Posted by – April 17, 2011

Add a HD capable front-facing camera (1.3Mpix for 720p, 2Mpix for 1080p), and you can have HD video conferencing on a tablet, given also a HD resolution tablet screen, is this awesome? Rockchip says they are the first to hardware accelerate the decoding and encoding of HD video conferencing.

Starworth Freescale Capacitive tablets


Star worth are doing open mold tablets.

JSR MSM7227 Android Smartphone

Posted by – April 17, 2011

JSR is making an MSM7227 based Android Smartphone.

Honeycomb at the Rockchip booth (just keyrings for now..)

Posted by – April 16, 2011

The optimal thing for Rockchip would be that Google provide them with full Honeycomb source code access as soon as possible (if they haven’t already secretly gotten access to that source code), so that they can start working on optimizing the support for Honeycomb on their new RK2918 processor platform.

Gaia Communications Corp does NEC/Renesas Cortex-A9 tablet platforms

Posted by – April 16, 2011

This Taiwanese company designs and develops NEC/Renesas based PCBA for some of these interesting new NEC/Renesas based 533Mhz ARM Cortex-A9 based tablets that are coming out. The price using Gaia’s NEC/Renesas solution can be $110 for the 7″ 800×480 capacitive, and $150 for the 7″ 1024×600 capacitive with 3G when purchased in very large quantities.

Bonux launches ARM Powered Android Set-top-boxes


They have Cortex-A8 and ARM9 based set-top-boxes, with 1080p YouTube streaming support, full codecs support (they claim), Android UI, could possibly upgrade to Google TV UI when that source code is available.

Digilink uses Telechips 8803 Cortex-A8 in capacitive tablets

Posted by – April 16, 2011

Gingerbread on board, capacitive, prices are about $180 with 3G and capacitive, $90 without 3G and resistive.

Malata PC-B1002, Malata PC-B1301, Tegra2 Laptops

Posted by – April 16, 2011

Malata announces new ARM Powered Laptops at HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair. They are not ready to show working prototypes of them yet. There is a 10″ similar to Toshiba AC-100, but also a 13.3″ ARM Powered Laptop! In my opinion, it’s important software for ARM Powered Laptops gets ready also for these products to be commercially viable. Honeycomb might do the trick, with slight Laptop-oriented optimizations and its awesome new large screen optimized multi-tab web browser, but Chrome OS for ARM may be even better for this type of product.

$125 Cortex-A9 Dual-Core 7″ Capacitive Tablet by Livall.cn

Posted by – April 16, 2011

NEC/Renesas 533Mhz Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 based smooth looking capacitive tablet to be sold at $125 for bulk orders (of at least 1000 pieces). They let me buy one sample at $171, so let me know in the comments what you would like me to test in my upcoming video review of this NEC/Renesas Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 based tablet.

Rockchip RK2918 powered Laptop

Posted by – April 16, 2011

OK this is cool. Put a Rockchip RK2918 in a laptop, add Honeycomb or Chrome OS on ARM, and you’ve got possibly one of the most affordable ARM Powered laptops right there.

Rockchip Rk2918 in a Set-top-box


Rockchip now provides a Set-top-box reference design based on their new RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 processor. This could power upcoming Google TV on ARM for cheap.

Alldo Cube $89 Cortex-A9 AmLogic 800Mhz Single Core 7″ resistive tablet

Posted by – April 16, 2011

The ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic 800Mhz Single Core solution seems to be cheap.

United One Telechips Android Set-top-box


They dual-boot a type of embedded Linux for video playback and they also do Android on the TV.

Switek 7″ capacitive Rk2918 tablet

Posted by – April 16, 2011

They are presenting a RK2918 capacitive 7″ tablet.

Winaccord AmLogic 4:3 capacitive tablets

Posted by – April 16, 2011

They make 7″, 8″ and 10″ Android AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 800Mhz Single Core tablets.

KM Technology Marvell and Freescale based tablets

Posted by – April 16, 2011

They make Marvell and Freescale based tablets.

Epudo Telechips Cortex-A8 tablets

Posted by – April 16, 2011

Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 tablets running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Wabook does $60 Android 10″ Laptop (Wondermedia)

Posted by – April 16, 2011

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

Cwlinux.com embedded software and hardware solutions


They provide ARM Powered hardware and software solutions, based on Freescale, Texas Instruments, VIA and other.

Ebot shows NEC/Renesas Cortex-A9 based 7″ capacitive tablet

Posted by – April 15, 2011

Ebot Digital Technology Co Ltd uses a high quality 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, and they are using the new NEC/Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 processor platform.