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My Top-12 videos filmed at the ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by – November 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun video-blogging 30 videos from the ARM Technology Conference in Santa Clara California from November 9th to November 11th. Because it can be a lot of work for you to navigate through all these videos, here is my list of top-12 videos that I filmed during this event. If you have other favorites, please post them in the comments.

1. Simon Segars, Executive VP and General Manager ARM Physical IP Division, interview with one of the board members of ARM, I try to ask some questions about how the company was founded and where the industry is going.

2. Marvell Armada XP Quad-core ARM Powered Servers, here’s an insight into how ARM Powered servers could power most of the cloud much more efficiently.

3. Gary Smith EDA on the future of Chip Design, an insight into software development, chip design, ARM, EDA and how the industry works.

4. ARM Mali-T604, the next generation GPU for ARM Powered devices, this is the big announcement from ARM during the conference. It’s the next generation GPU to go with the next-generation ARM Cortex-A15 processor, designs becoming available next year, and it takes at least a year or two for chip makers to implement those next-generation designs.

5. Linaro Graphics Group, an interview about how graphics acceleration is important in the open source Linux for ARM developments. I also interviewed George Grey the Linaro CEO.

6. John Bruggeman of Cadence on EDA360, some interesting talk about how the industry needs to collaborate on some points to better innovate on other points more efficiently.

7. Nufront ARM Cortex-A9 can run at 2Ghz for Desktop and Laptop usage, this Chinese chip maker is preparing upward 2Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 processor to power Desktops, Laptops, Thin Clients. They want the price to be below $200 to the end consumer, this is awesome.

8. PandaBoard, Texas Instruments ARM Cortex-A9, a first look at the next-generation Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor in the PandaBoard.org development kit. Will full speed web browsing be optimized using Neon acceleration and other hardware acceleration?

9. Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core performance for web browsing, it’s interesting to see how the second core in ARM Cortex-A9 chips allow for faster web browsing in Android.

10. Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 and Mali-400 shown for the first time, so far my most popular video from the conference. This chip will probably power the next generation Samsung Galaxy S/Tab devices, including also possibly Samsung’s Google TV and some of Samsung’s future laptop and netbook products. I also filmed some 3D games demonstrated running on this Orion processor.

11. ST Ericsson U8500 ARM Cortex-A9, they are also doing some interesting implementation of ARM Cortex-A9, presenting their demo with Meego developed in combination with the help from the Linaro project.

12. Freescale Kinetis Tower System now sampling, the Freescale Tower Systems look to be some fun development kits.

Backstage at Leo Laporte’s Twit Cottage

Posted by – November 19, 2010

A few days ago, I visited Leo Laporte’s Twit Cottage to bring him some Archos tablets (featured thus far in This Week In Google 69 and MacBreak Weekly 221) and I filmed these few seconds back stage as they were finishing the recording of the quite funny This Week In Tech episode 274. This has got to be one of the most advanced, most successful and most famous live and on-demand video podcasting studios in the world at the moment. They are expanding the Twit Network and moving into even larger studios soon.

ARM Powered Google TV coming

Posted by – November 19, 2010

I already guessed it (2, 3, 4), logically, Google is working with ARM to prepare the ARM Powered Google TV boxes to come probably around early next year, by the same time Google TV OS is open sourced. This will allow for cheaper Google TV, probably down towards the $99 price point, depending on some versions of Google TV excluding the HDMI input and IR Blasters features. Here are my guesses for what good value ARM Powered Google TV should be sold at early next year:

Google TV on ARM Cortex-A9, full 1080p playback support, including high bitrates, high profile, h264 in MKV and other containers.

Output only version: $99

Input/Output + IR version: $149

“We are talking to Google, but we have nothing to announce right now,” said Tudor Brown, president of ARM, at a technology conference in Taipei on Thursday.

Brown said ARM’s latest processors are less expensive and require less power than Intel’s Atom processor. “If Google TV is to be mainstream, it must be built on a lower power system, …on lower cost technology,” he said.

This way, all HDTV’s shipping with ARM Cortex-A9 will be able to include the full Google TV features for just the additional cost of $25 or a bit more for making each HDTV Smart as Marvell’s CEO Dr. Sehat Sutardja explained in his keynote from ARM Techcon.

Source: IDG News PC World
Found via: techmeme.com

Archos 70 Internet Tablet on Leo Laporte’s This Week In Google episode 69

Posted by – November 19, 2010

As I told you in yesterday’s MacBreak weekly 221 post, last Sunday as I was in the Silicon Valley to video blog the ARM Technology Conference for my http://ARMdevices.net site, I had fun traveling up to Petaluma and bring Leo Laporte some of the Archos Gen8 tablets (70, 43 and 32) so he could test them out and let his Twit gang also play with them. So that they could compare those with Apple and Samsung tablets. The time code in this “This Week In Google” episode 69 where they start talking about Archos is around the 5th minute.

You can discuss this video in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=40903

I want a Bluetooth remote on my watch for my tablets, yes 50€ Sony Ericsson LiveView is here

Posted by – November 19, 2010
Category: Other, Archos, Android

It’s out now on Amazon.de for 50€, I want something like this. This could be perfect with my Archos 70 Internet Tablet and my $48 Sony DR-BT100CX Bluetooth Stereo Headset. The idea is to answer VOIP calls on the wrist watch and use the Bluetooth headset without having to take out the Android Tablet from the pocket.

Tudor Brown, President of ARM, keynote at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by – November 18, 2010

Tudor Brown announces Mali-T604 and explains the status of the ARM industry. I will link to the full length video once I find the link.

Archos 7 Home Tablet teared down by EETimes at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by – November 18, 2010

Before interviewing me on my interests in ARM Devices, EETimes editors Brian Fuller and Patrick Mannion went ahead and opened up the Archos 7 Home Tablet in front of a large audience of about 100 people at the ARM Techcon 2010 exhibitor area theater stage. They talked about the features of some of the processors that are used.

Dr. Sehat Sutardja Marvell CEO keynote at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by – November 18, 2010

Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marvell, talks about the ARM industry, how he decided to bet on ARM Technology when he founded Marvell about 15 years ago. How he sees performance of ARM Processors increase to levels that support PC/Desktop applications. I will link to the full length keynote video once I find the link. Please post the video link in the comments if you find it.

Jensen Tjeng keynote at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by – November 18, 2010

Introduced by Simon Segars, as the very first keynote speech of the ARM Techcon 2010, is Jensen Tjeng, Director of Engineering in Processor Design, Marvell. This is just short parts of the keynote, I will link to the full length keynote video once I find it online. Please post in the comments if you know where to find it. It might not have been posted yet.

Archos 70, 43, 32 Internet Tablets on MacBreak Weekly 221

Posted by – November 18, 2010

As I was in California to video-blog the ARM Technology Conference in Santa Clara on my http://ARMdevices.net, I thought I’d suggest Archos send me some extra Gen8 so that I could use those as excuse to bring them to the Twit Cottage in Petaluma, as I am a fan of the Twit podcasting network, the most advanced high quality production quality podcast network, I watched most of the Twit and Twig shows since 2006. The weekly Twit podcasts (they do about 20 weekly, some even daily podcasts!) are some of the most influential and popular technology audio and video podcasts worldwide.

In this episode of MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Merlin Mann and Andy Ihnatko discuss the Archos 70 Internet Tablets versus the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. In the embed below of MacBreak Weekly episode 221, I forward the video to about the 1h01m30s time code when they start talking about the Archos tablets (they mention the Archos 7 Home Tablet Amazon pricing for a few minutes).

You can discuss this video in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=40794

ARM President Tudor Brown video interviewed on NBC Press Here TV

Posted by – November 17, 2010
Category: ARM TechCon, ARM

I asked (a bit too late) for an interview with ARM President Tudor Brown as he was checking out of the hotel on the last day of the ARM Techcon, but he had to hurry to be on this bit more important NBC Bay Area Press Here TV broadcast:

This video was posted at: pressheretv.com
Found via: ARMCommunity on Twitter

NXP Cortex-M series solutions

Posted by – November 17, 2010

NXP offers as wide variety of Cortex-M products from Cortex-M0 to Cortex-M4, here in this video are some demonstrations.

QNX car info cluster software solutions

Posted by – November 17, 2010

Here demonstrated in a nice Corvette, you can do a bunch of interactive things with these new ARM Cortex-A8 Freescale i.MX51 powered digital information clusters and infotainment systems that are coming in different configurations to more and more cars soon.

I’m going to the LeWeb10 conference in Paris December 8-9th

Posted by – November 17, 2010
Category: LeWeb

I’m looking forward to going to the LeWeb conference on December 8th and 9th in Paris. Especially for the opportunity to meet some of the most influential people in the tech industry. At the last couple years of LeWeb, I was lucky to meet and video interview cool people like Kevin Marks (ex-Googler now at British Telecom), Martin Varsavsky (founder of FON), Chris Pirillo, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington (founder of Techcrunch) and Marc Canter.

Most of these influential people of the US and EU tech blogosphere and tech industry will be there again, as well as Shai Agassi (founder of revolutionizing electric car Project Better Place), Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress), Leo Laporte (founder of worlds most influential tech podcast This Week In Tech), Gabe Rivera (founder of one the most influential tech sites Techmeme.com), Ryan Block (one of the founders of Engadget), Veronica Belmont, MG Siegler (top Apple fanboy on Techcrunch), David Hornik and many more people that you can find on the participants list.

A lot of Googlers attend the event as it’s partly sponsored by Google and there will be a full day of Google workshops on December 8th: http://www.leweb.net/agenda/2010/workshops. By the time LeWeb starts, I expect we might have seen more official announcements about Gingerbread, Chrome OS, Google Me, Nexus S and more, that these Google workshops should be absolutely fascinating! And if you have any questions to Google people, this is the opportunity to ask them! Marissa Mayer will do her Fireside chat with Michael Arrington as she does each year. Salim Ismail Executive Director of the Google-funded Singularity University will do a talk. Chang Kim is Google product manager on Blogging products will be there too.

Top people from Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo will also be there if you want to talk to them or watch their keynotes.

Look forward to my extensive video coverage from this event. I will try to video interview all the people I just mentioned and many more. Cool product demonstrations happen there as well, people showing off gadgets and websites at the exhibition area so I will video-blog those on here: http://138.2.152.197/category/tradeshows/leweb/

That’s what a conference is for. Meeting people. So if you are in the Europe area and you want a chance to meet those people you should register.

Gary Smith EDA on the future of Chip Design

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Gary Smith talks about ARM and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and where the industry is heading as processors keep getting more and more complicated, smaller and smaller, more and more costly to develop while prices of ARM Powered devices keep getting lower and lower. Gary Smith is the founder and Chief Analyst for Gary Smith EDA. Previously, he was the Managing Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Electronic Design Automation Service, Design & Engineering Cluster at Gartner Dataquest.

ARM Mali-T604, the next generation GPU for ARM Powered devices

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Interview with Jem Davies and Ian Smythe on the ARM Mali-T604, the next generation graphics processor. Look forward to some insanely powerful graphics processors with the ARM Cortex-A15 processors that will start to be designed next year and available in consumer products the year after that.

ARM Powered Lego Rubiks Cube

Posted by – November 13, 2010

ARM engineer David Gilday does this just as his hobby. Completely awesome.

PandaBoard, Texas Instruments OMAP4 ARM Cortex-A9


It is released now, available for $174 to developers at http://pandaboard.org deliveries starting at the end of this month.

Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 3D Games in Android demo

Posted by – November 13, 2010

While the games that will be optimized for the faster graphics processing of Mali-400 will look even better, it’s still cool to see some 3D stuff running on this upcoming Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 processor platform.

Nufront ARM Cortex-A9 can run at 2Ghz for Desktop and Laptop usage

Posted by – November 13, 2010

Beijing based Nufront is presenting their ARM Cortex-A9 processor which they plan to launch in commercial ARM Powered desktop and laptop solutions soon. Here are some demonstrations of it powering an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and a Quake 3 game.