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.
Category: ARM TechCon
Latest news from Texas Instruments at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Android
TSMC says 28nm is now in volume production
Posted by – October 27, 2011
TSMC plans to make all the way to as small as 7nm processors, they say they have plans to continue overtaking or matching Moore’s law for at least 10 more years. TSMC is the worlds largest independent ARM Processor foundry. Here’s a video about how TSMC makes the processors of the present and the future, they do them for many of the major ARM chip designers such as Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Qualcomm and others.
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.
ARMv8 is 64bit, look for video interviews soon
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Category: ARM TechCon
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
Category: Laptops, Servers, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, ARM TechCon, Ubuntu
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.
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.
Toshiba presents their latest Cortex-M processors
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Toshiba is doing a range of ARM Cortex-M series of processors used in a huge number of devices around the world.
M-Etic Game to showcases ARM Cortex-M0
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here are the parts used and their cost:
4x Linear Actuator – $240
96x RGB LED – $100
1x Infinity Mirror – $20
1x Joystick – $10
1x ARM Cortex-M0 – Less than $1
Raspberry Pi presents the $25 PC at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
They plan mass production and deliveries by Christmas this year of the $25 ARM Powered PC. It’s basically a Broadcom ARM11 based SoC on a PCB with USB host, Ethernet, SD Card slot and a HDMI output.
Live video stream from ARM TechCon
Posted by – October 26, 2011
I have a camera on my head and I will be walking around, hopefully you get smooth enough video, I’m using a T-Mobile 4G hotspot to upload the live video stream. I’m wearing a Kopin Golden-i headmounted computer to try to monitor the live ustream chat. Watch what I see while I video-blog here.
ARM Cortex-A15 processor 20nm tape out, it works!
Posted by – October 26, 2011
Yes this is it, this is the next generation ARM Processor. The ARM Cortex-A15 processor is already being taped out. That means they are able to make the processor. In the next steps they tweak more things, it’ll take a few more months for fully configured ARM Cortex-A15 SoCs to be showcased and another few more months for those to reach products that can be sold to consumers on the market. The performance is huge. At the same clock speed the Cortex-A15 is said to be at least 50% faster than ARM Cortex-A9, but it can be made to run at much higher frequency, all the while using less power. This prototype does not include any GPU, it’s just an unoptimized ARM demo running some non-GPU Android. Look forward to my interviews to be posted during the next days with the ARM representatives talking about the features of this processor.
Cadence at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 26, 2011
Cadence is one of the major EDA solutions provider. All the ARM Processor designers use their software to design the processors and all of the electronics that go inside of smartphones, tablets, laptops and more.
Magma Design Automation at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 26, 2011
Magma is one of the 4 major EDA solutions providers, to provide design tools for chip design companies that make the worlds best ARM Processors. They help design, verify and make them work.
Common Platform technology
Posted by – October 26, 2011
Samsung, IBM and Globalfoundries join forces to create the future of ARM Processors. They share knowledge, research and development costs, to bring amazing new technologies to products faster. They synchronize the process to ensure that customers’ chip designs can be produced at multiple sources in three different continents with no redesign required.
Synopsys EDA tools and IP at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 26, 2011
Synopsys provides tools and IP for ARM chip designers for the ARM Cortex-A15, all the chip makers use their tools to design and verify the SoC.
