Interactive panel discussion on the Internet of Things with panelists including Sony, Samsung, AT&T, Ericsson and the IPSO Alliance. Hosted by Dr Harry Zervos of IDTechEx, and given as part of the IDTechEx event Internet of Things Applications held in Santa Clara on November 20 2014.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Smartphone and Tablet Development Platform reference designs
Posted by – January 5, 2015
6″ 2K OLED, Octa-core 64bit quad-A57 quad-A53, fingerprint, 13megapixel camera, it’s a special development phone for developers to optimize their apps for 64bit big.LITTLE ARM by Qualcomm, with Snapdragon 810 devices to be available soon (check back for more on Snapdragon 810 soon), Qualcomm also has a reference Snapdragon 810 Tablet with a 4K display, with 4 speakers, 9 microphones, ultrasound, HDMI, USB3, dual-3D infrared gesture cam for 3D scanning, first mobile device with DDR4 ultra high speed RAM memory. This is the Snapdragon 810 Mobile Development Platform for $999. You can read more about the 810 Smartphone and Tablet development platform here: https://developer.qualcomm.com/mdp-810-tablet-mdp-810-smartphone
Qualcomm 805/600 Development Boards by Inforce Computing
Posted by – January 5, 2015
Inforce Computing is a Qualcomm partner who makes small form factor single board computers (SBCs) and system on modules (SoM) for the embedded space with Snapdragon 805 and Snapdragon 600 processors, here showing some of the boards that they do. You can read more about their $149 Snapragon 600 development board here: http://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/moreinfo/inforce6410.html and their $249 Snapdragon 805 development board here: http://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/moreinfo/inforce6540.html
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Development Board by Intrinsyc for $499
Posted by – January 5, 2015
Qualcomm launches their Snapdragon 810 64bit APQ8094 octa-core with Quad ARM Cortex-A57 and Quad ARM Cortex-A53 in big.LITTLE. This development board has USB 3, USB 2, HDMI, UFS, audio, bluetooth antennas, GPS antennas, seria ATA, PCI Express, etc. You can read more about it here: http://shop.intrinsyc.com/products/dragonboard-development-kit-based-on-the-qualcomm-snapdragon-810-apq8094-processor
AppliedMicro X-Gene ARM Server Software Status and Performance
Posted by – January 3, 2015
In this video, AppliedMicro’s Kumar Sankaran discusses the software of the X-Gene platform and provides a comparison of X-Gene 1 and 2 against the latest Intel server processors Xeon E5.
Also see Tour at AppliedMicro’s X-Gene Testing Lab
How the AppliedMicro X-Gene ARM Server Processors are designed
and AppliedMicro launching X-C1 Dev Board for 64bit Android development
You can order AppliedMicro’s 64bit ARMv8 development board here: https://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-c1-development-kits/
My 2015 Predictions
Posted by – January 2, 2015
Category: Opinions
– During this year, we’ll get sub-$150 and sub-$100 Chromebooks, of course ARM Powered and it’ll definitely prove Chromebooks have overtaken Windows/Mac on the global market. Offline/accelerated web apps galore, including offline HTML5 video-editing.
– We’ll get sub-$50 Chromesticks, different front Chromecast as these will do full ARM Powered Chrome OS on a stick.
– Chromecast 2 incoming, this time will support streaming of every video and audio codec. Support MHL 3 or 4 with 4K playback built-in, Ethernet port!
– Android One to come to all Countries in the form of sub-$20 Android phones, Android One to support Spreadtrum lowest cost Android chip.
– Google will actually ship real hardware out of Google X! Hopefully this including innovative display technologies, feeding all Android ecosystem with lower power consuming better visibility at a lower cost. Google Powered Giant Displays possible too.
– Robots take over… the marketing. We should see child-sized Robots trend at trade shows, and launched by tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook.
– Smart home makes sense. How to make sense of it, will have to do with ultra low cost, ultra long battery powered, easy to use stuff.
– Phablet becomes the best of high end to low end. Most consumers of the world will love the 6-7″ form factor as ultimate productivity at portability.
– VR mass market is Smartphone powered, with new 3D camera systems, becomes new media experience.
– Next-gen Android is Tango, IR sensors with 3D depth cameras on all Smartphones and tablets, enable amazingly accurate indoor positioning, object recognition, a vision for the blind, a new set of eyes for the Internet, a new digital understanding of everything.
– Massive Innovation required in industry as smart devices industry consolidates, as prices for basic smart devices goes down to minimum. Though market grows also as 2 Billion new consumers can afford to acquire these cheaper smart devices during the year.
– 4K is the spec to make TVs and projectors more profitable.
– Giant tech corporations better used by Governments to improve society. Including to improve transportation, housing, social interactions, jobs, food, commerce, finance and everything else.
– Year of the smartwatch. Especially the ones with low power always-on display.
Unuiga Company Introduction at Factory in Huizhou
Posted by – January 2, 2015
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Rockchip, AmLogic, Nvidia, Unuiga, Android
Unuiga expands factory capacity to a maximum of 1 Million Set-top-boxes and HDMI Sticks to be manufactured per month, into their new mass manufacturing facility in Huizhou China. You can see some of the products Unuiga is able to make in this factory here: Android Router, A80 Set-top-box, DVB-T2 Android Box, RK3288 Projector, RK3288 Box and more, see at the Unuiga category
Distributors can contact Unuiga directly for more details:
Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: +86 755 86110143
Fax: +86 755 86330445
Cell: +86 18038133940
Web : http://www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976
Aikun talks Tablet market opportunities and challenges, Differentiates with their Solely Tab S
Posted by – December 31, 2014
Aikun talks about the current opportunities for innovation in the tablet market, to counter some of the challenges with the lowest cost lowest quality tablets coming out of China. Aikun now mass produces their Aikun Solely Tab S, with innovative magnetic charging features, un-scratchable kevlar like back design, Rob and Rami of Aikun talk about the status in the Tablet market.
You can contact Aikun here (please only contact if you’re a serious distributor):
Mail : celia@aikun-china.com / master@atek-china.com / rob@aikun-china.com
Website : www.aikun.co
Contact information : http://www.aikun.co/html/about/contactus/
Tel.: (+86) 6110 2468 – 6110 2858
Factory Address:
A2 building, Lianhe Industrial Park, Fengtang Road,
Fuyong, Baoan, Shenzhen, China
Merry Christmas from Denmark
Posted by – December 26, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Tourism
A walk around Denmark on Christmas day, Merry Christmas everyone! Check back for many new videos to be posted in the days to come and for all the news from CES in the weeks to come!
Marrakech 4K Galaxy Note 4 samples, Spices, Market, Festival, Taxi and Streets
Posted by – December 17, 2014
Here are some video samples filmed in 4K using the Galaxy Note 4 Powered by MHL 3 in Marrakech Morroco, showing Spices, the Kasbah Market, the Marrakech Film Festival and walking around the streets of Marrakech. I also posted a couple of videos filmed on a Camel ride. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 records video in 4K at 50mbitps in 30fps, which can be output to a 4K TV using MHL 3, this is how it looks on YouTube in 4K:
Mantis Vision MV4D 3D engine in Google Project Tango
Posted by – December 12, 2014
This is possibly the future of Android. Mantis Vision shows their amazing technology creating 3D from cameras with infrared beam/sensors in real-time using the Nvidia Tegra K1 powered Project Tango based tablet as Google’s development platform. Mantis Vision is changing the way the world creates, uses, and experiences in 3D. Imagine transforming everything you film with your smartphone into a 3D model and adding it all in real-time to a user-generated streetview of the world indoor and outdoor. Mantis Vision provides the 3D sensing platform, consisting of flash projector hardware components and Mantis Vision’s core MV4D technology which includes structured light-based depth sensing algorithms, bringing this amazing technology to the mass market. Through Project Tango, can be used for indoor navigation, augmented reality, indoor position estimation and more.
How the AppliedMicro X-Gene ARM Server Processors are designed
Posted by – December 11, 2014
AppliedMicro gives an overview of X-Gene, providing the different design components as well the various benefits in using X-Gene for compute server, storage and high performance computing. AppliedMicro is one of the initial partners with ARM in developing the ARMv8 64bit architecture, and customizing it for high performance server computing.
Also see Tour at AppliedMicro’s X-Gene Testing Lab
and AppliedMicro launching X-C1 Dev Board for 64bit Android development
Rob Savoye, developer of Gnash, Tech Lead at the Linaro Toolchain Working Group
Posted by – December 11, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Rob Savoye has been working on GCC since 1987, on the team that originally made it, started programming computers in 1977 using Fortran 4. Rob Savoye is a Tech Lead in Support Maintenance at http://linaro.org Also see my previous video with Rob Savoye here.
Charbax on Camel in Marrakech Desert
I take the Camel across the desert outside of Marrakech Morocco, here are two video samples filmed in 4K using the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Powered by MHL 3
Christian Reis aka Kiko, VP Hyperscale at Canonical, Mythology and Potential of the ARM Server
Posted by – December 10, 2014
ARM is the most interesting thing that could happen to servers in decades: a chance to redefine system architecture, form-factor, hardware acceleration, power consumption and the supplier ecosystem. It’s also a chance to throw away legacy and build the ideal platform for a post-cloud world (whatever that means) — if we keep our eyes on that goal. This is Kiko’s view on where we are and where we need to be in order to turn opportunity into industry-defining success.
Christian Reis – VP Hyperscale at Canonical, Kiko is responsible for next-generation server engagements & technology, including Ubuntu Server for ARM and the provisioning solution MAAS. Prior to this role, Kiko was assigned as VP Engineering to Linaro, where he participated in the organization’s conceptualization and creation. Kiko holds an MSc in Software Engineering from USP and resides in São Carlos, Brazil.
Here’s Kiko’s keynote video: “Mythology and Potential of the ARM Server”:
AppliedMicro Lab Tour, X-Gene 2 ARM Server
Posted by – December 9, 2014
AppliedMicro’s Gaurav Singh gives us a sneak peek into the development labs of X-Gene 2 showing a live demonstration ready for production, with AppliedMicro X-Gene 2 coming out for ARM Servers in 2015.
Newsun Factory Tour, Portable DVD Players, Power Banks and Bluetooth Speakers
Posted by – December 4, 2014
This is my 22 minute tour of the http://www.sznewsun.net.cn Newsun Portable DVD Player and Power Bank factory. Newsun has been manufacturing these Portable DVD Players for 8 years, they manufacture 150 thousand of them per month. They also make power banks and bluetooth speakers. This is a tour around their sales offices, the R&D engineering room, and a tour of the assembly, warehouse and more. They ship many of these to South America, Middle-east, South-East Asia and more.
You can contact the company here:
Shenzhen Newsun Digital Technology Co.,Ltd.
Phone: +86 755 61180088
sznewsun@sznewsun.net.cn
http://www.sznewsun.net.cn
Address: Block A, Newsun Technology Park (Lianhe Industrial District), West of Fengtang Ave, Fuyong town, Bao’an District, Shenzhen, China
Newsun Portable DVD Players, Bluetooth Speakers and more
Posted by – December 4, 2014
Newsun is one of the worldwide leaders making Portable DVD Players, selling millions in countries like middle-east, south-east asia, south america and more. Price is for example $35 in bulk. They also sell Bluetooth speakers at from about $11 in bulk. They sell 150 thousand portabe DVD players per month. 50 thousand Bluetooth speakers per month and 200 thousand power banks per month.
64bit AppliedMicro X-C1 Dev Board for 64bit Android and ARM Server Development available now
Posted by – December 4, 2014
World’s first 64bit ARMv8 development board (you can order it here: https://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-c1-development-kits/) based on the Octa Core X-Gene 2.4Ghz running in SMP mode available for anyone to buy today. It’s built for Servers, supports 64bit Android development, featured in the HP Moonshot ARM Server product. Designed for cloud computing and next-generation data centers, featuring custom high-performance ARMv8 cores, AppliedMicro X-Gene is the first to couple an advanced 64-bit ARM architecture with unique network and storage offload engines, as well as integrated Ethernet. The highly integrated, purpose-built X-Gene solution delivers the highest performance and lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for private cloud, public cloud, and enterprise applications.
4K sample filmed with Samsung Galaxy Note 4 outputting 4K using MHL 3
Posted by – December 4, 2014
This video was filmed using the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that records 4K video, this is the built-in 4K encode at 50mbitps, using the built-in microphone. Perhaps there is some good Bluetooth Microphone system that could be used for lapel-microphone and for handheld microphone, perhaps also a good shotgun microphone. Let me know in the comments if you know any good of these that could be used with 4K smartphones to record highest quality audio. I also would like to upgrade my camera on the steadicam to 4K, I like the idea of perhaps trying out the Samsung NX1 that can encode 4K in H265 at 40mbitps, or perhaps I’ll wait for some other high performance 4K H265 camera, the idea being for the 4K footage to be compressed well enough in the camera so that the videos can be uploaded to YouTube directly. It seems though that http://youtube.com/editor doesn’t support 4K rendering yet (meaning that when someone tries to join/split 4K videos with YouTube editor, it outputs only a 1080p maximum file? Can someone please report this to Google? Otherwise perhaps there would be a camera to offer native 4K H265 in-camera basic join/split editing, perhaps even also with support to automatically add intros, outros, overlay transparent watermark branding (even animated watermark branding). Dual SD card recording for backup (when SD cards break, which has happened too often for me).
