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
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
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
ARM CTO Mike Muller keynote starts now.
Metaio Augmented Reality showcase
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
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
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
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
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
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.