AMD Huskyboard 96boards Enterprise Edition available soon and the SoftIron Overdrive 3000 ARMv8 64bit server board. AMD also shows what they are doing for NFV Network Function Virtualization, developing solutions to power advanced networking.
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Panasonic AG-DVX200, 60p 4K Camcorder
Posted by – November 16, 2015
Panasonic finally has released the DVX200 ($4200 on Amazon) which records “real 4K” 4:2:0 8bit 60fps, it can record 4:2:2 10bit with an Atomos external recorder. Built-in 13x zoom lens with wide-angle 28mm, it can record 4K 4096×2160 at 24p, UHD 4K 3840×2160 (60p/30p/24p) and 1080p at (120fps and 24p). The 4K UHD 60p/50p recording is at 150mbit/s and 30p/25p/24p is at 100mbit/s, it can record both UHD 30p and FHD onto two separate SD cards, approximately 160 minutes of 4K/24p or UHD/25p/30p data can be recorded onto a 128GB SD card, or about 110 minutes of UHD/60p data.
JVC GY-LS300, 4K camcorder Super 35mm Sensor with Micro Four Thirds Lens Mount
Posted by – November 16, 2015
JVC GY-LS300 ($3500 at Amazon without the lens) features a JVCKENWOOD AltaSens 4K CMOS Super 35 high sensitivity image sensor combined with an industry standard Micro Four Thirds (MFT) lens mount. The single chip CMOS sensor has approximately 13.5 megapixels and achieves a standard sensitivity of ISO 400 with a total of 12 stops of exposure latitude. Super 35 Cinema lenses may be used and will retain their native angle of view. When the camera is used with MFT, Super 16 and other size lenses, JVC’s proprietary Variable Scan Mapping feature will maintain the lens’s native angle of view. This gives filmmakers the flexibility of using widely available MFT lenses as well as high end cinema lenses. It is also possible to attach the camera to microscopes and other devices using a MFT/C-mount adaptor. The unique combination of the MFT mount, the larger S35 image sensor and Variable Scan Mapping give the camera nearly limitless lens options.
Ikegami SHK-810 8K Hand-held TV Camera System
Posted by – November 16, 2015
Ikegami shows what they say is the World’s First Hand-Held 8K TV Camera System, with a Single 33megapixel Super 35 CMOS sensor, 4000 horizontal TV lines, Dual-green SHV Color arrangement, 8K Focus assist, for now to be used by Japanese TV stations, possibly expanding to the whole world, to whomever wants to upgrade to 8K.
8K HDR at 120Hz by NHK
Posted by – November 16, 2015
NHK skips 4K and brings Japan directly to 8K with HDR, requiring extra bandwidth for HDR but it’s not double, it’s effective enough to fit the HDR information within the 100mbit/s 8K transmittion bandwidth. See my previous NHK 8K interview
EKT Plug Set-top-box on ALi M3733 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
Posted by – November 16, 2015
EKT launches their EKT Plug Set-top-box, running on the ALi M3733 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400MP2 GPU with a performance of 5000DMIPS, video transcoding, playback, running EKT’s special software.
ARM Cortex-A35
Posted by – November 13, 2015
ARM announces that 50% of the Smartphones sold in 2015 are 64bit already. This is a phenomenal success for ARM’s 64bit deployment. At ARM TechCon 2015, ARM announces ARM Cortex-A35, an upgrade for ARM Cortex-A7 which is currently the most popular ARM Cortex-A core shipping in most of the current low-end to mid-range Smartphones, at 10% lower power consumption, ARM Cortex-A35 brings up to 40% higher performance compared to ARM Cortex-A7! This will bring 64bit to even more Smartphones for the entry-level to mid-range markets starting before the end of 2016. ARM Mali-470 is a good power efficient GPU to use with ARM Cortex-A35, and it can be used in big.LITTLE configurations together with ARM Cortex-A72, ARM Cortex-A57 or ARM Cortex-A53.
James McNiven, General Manager, ARM CPU Group
Posted by – November 13, 2015
James McNiven talks about running ARM’s CPU team, managing the engineering, the marketing and operations to deliver the ARM CPUs to ARM’s partners around the world.
ARM IoT Security Strategy in ARMv8-M
Posted by – November 12, 2015
Milosch Meriac, ARM IoT Security Engineer, talks about the strategy ARM is working on to make Internet of Things secure. ARM is convinced that many IoT security problems can be solved with standardised building blocks. ARM is developing the uVisor, a self-contained software hypervisor that creates independent secure domains on ARM Cortex-M3 and M4 microcontrollers (M0+ will follow). Its function is to increase resilience against malware and to protect secrets from leaking even among different modules of the same application. The uVisor is one of these basic building blocks – complementary to other important blocks like robust communication stacks, safe firmware updates and secure crypto libraries. The design philosophy of uVisor is to provide hardware-enforced compartments (sandboxes) for individual code blocks by limiting access to memories and peripherals using the existing hardware security features of the Cortex-M microcontrollers. Breaking the established flat security model of microcontrollers into compartmentalised building blocks results in high security levels, as the reach of flaws or external attacks can be limited to less sensitive function blocks. A basic example of uVisor is preventing unauthorised access to flash memory from faulty or compromised code. This not only prevents malware from getting resident on the device, but also enables protection of device secrets like cryptographic keys. Services built on top of ARM’s security layer can safely depend on an unclonable trusted identity, secure access to internet services and benefit from encryption key protection.
https://github.com/ARMmbed/uvisor (uVisor documentation and sources)
https://github.com/ARMmbed/uvisor-lib/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md (API docs)
https://github.com/ARMmbed/uvisor-lib (integration in ARMmbed)
Slideshow Milosch Meriac presented at ARM TechCon: Resilient IoT Security The end of flat security models
ARM Mali-470
Posted by – November 12, 2015
ARM Mali-470 is the newest Mali-400 family GPU by ARM, it is the most energy efficient GPU from ARM, it supports the latest Android versions, optimized to extend battery life for wearables and Android Wear.
Nathan Brookwood assesses whether 64bit ARM servers can take 25% of the market by 2020
Posted by – November 12, 2015
Nathan Brookwood has been following the microprocessor and SoC markets since 1995. He has been involved in the high technology industry since his days at Univac, where he had the opportunity to walk inside the central processor of an early mainframe system. He presently serves as the research fellow at Insight 64, an organization he founded in 1998 to monitor and report on the computer industry’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit platforms. You can contact Nathan Brookwood at Nathan@Insight64.com
4K content with HDR coming from 20th Century Fox
Posted by – November 12, 2015
Danny Kaye of 20th Century Fox talks about how his studio and Hollywood are bringing 4K HDR movie content to people in the near future and it has already started. Talking about the Vidity 4K HDR DRM solution running on ARM TrustZone devices, like TV Boxes, the 4K HDR TVs themselves, running on Western Digital Hard Drives and Sandisk SSDs, soon consumers will be able to watch hundreds of movies on their 4K HDR TVs, using streaming, downloading or plugging the physical hard drives to the USB port of the 4K TV.
Keynote: ARM Cortex-A35, ARMv8-M, Cryptocell, mbed connector announced by ARM CTO Mike Muller
Posted by – November 11, 2015
ARM CTO Mike Muller announces ARM Cortex-A35 to power the future of Low to Mid-range Smartphones and is also good for Wearables and Embedded, 20% higher performance and 10% lower power consumption compared to ARM Cortex-A7. ARMv8-M which is the next generation architecture for ARM Cortex-M microcontroller devices shipping into Billions of devices per year. Mike Muller talks about ARM’s big work on security for IoT and to connect IoT with the Cloud, ARM launches the mbed connector service and shows mbed OS 3.0.
Qualcomm Open Source on Dragonboard 410c
Posted by – November 11, 2015
Qualcomm talks about their Open Source Software Strategy, getting upstream support in the Linux Kernel for the Qualcomm based Development Boards like the Dragonboard 410c. Supporting Linux, Android, supporting Freedreno the Open Source GPU driver for Qualcomm processors, working towards support of OpenCL and more.
Rockchip Light Biz OS official video
Posted by – October 31, 2015
Rockchip’s Light Biz OS is Android 5.1 modified and with a Launcher optimized for Productivity, Multi-tasking, for Android Laptops, Android Desktops, Android Projectors, any Android device for doing work.
$37 iPhone 6S clone, $25 cheapest Android phone, $44-49 Quad-core SC7731/MT6580, $81 MT6735 LTE
Posted by – October 25, 2015
These are some of the latest cheap Smartphones in China based on the MediaTek MT6580, MT6735, Spreadtrum SC7731 and SC7715. Here’s a $37 iPhone 6S clone with a removable back case to support removable battery, 3G dual-sim, it runs a 5″ qHD display on a Spreadtrum SC7731 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 (I say A5 in the video by mistake, it’s actually A7). 512MB RAM and 4GB Flash but expandable by MicroSD slot. One of the world’s cheapest Android phones is the $25 SC7715 single-core ARM Cortex-A7 phone with 3.5″ display. A little higher specced are Huawei Mate 7 and Huawei P8 clones at $44 on Spreadtrum SC7731 and for $49 you get 5.5″ qHD and 5″ HD phones on the MediaTek MT6580 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7. For LTE I found a 5.5″ qHD IPS on 64bit MediaTek MT6735 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with 1GB RAM and 8GB Flash. Sorry I didn’t prepare this video well I say many wrong things about the CPUs, prices, Android versions etc check the annotations I try to fix it there.
Reeman Robot on RK3288 Android with Artificial Intelligence, 10″ touchscreen, sensors
Posted by – October 25, 2015
Reeman is a Robotics startup in Shenzhen making a $500 Robot for kids to play, to video-chat with their parents at work, for parents to video-monitor their kids at any time remotely, for kids to learn and play. Reeman Robot has advanced features based on the Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with ARM Mali-T760 GPU, it also has 3 micro-controllers, motors, sonar and infrared sensors, 3D camera sensors (to map and recognize where it is in rooms and spaces!), stereo microphones (to know where sound is coming from!), built-in speakers, camera, a 10.1″ capacitive touch-screen, it’s able to go back to the charger to charge itself automatically! An ex-employee from IBM is developing an artificial intelligence system for it to learn and react intelligently to an unlimited number of situations, questions and sentences in Chinese. Reeman has a team of 20 engineers now working hard to ship this robot on the Chinese market at $500 (2999rmb) in the first quarter of next year!
Reeman is very interested to find a partner to help develop English-language AI system with English voice-recognition, apps and educational/gaming content so this robot can be sold outside of China also! (hello Google/Alphabet? Can you make them a Robotics APK for Android with APIs for all sensors etc?) Interested partners, developers, distributors can contact Reeman below:
Jerry Gao, CEO
Jerry.Gao@reeman.cn
Mobile: +86 18902468056
Phone: +86 75586239429
http://www.reeman.cn/?_l=en
96Boards IoT Starter Kit with UART and Arduino-compatible Sensors Platform
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Grant Likely of Linaro introduces the http://96Boards.org IoT Starter Kit with retail price aimed at around $45 which includes the 96Boards UART also available at http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/96Boards-UART-p-2525.html and the Arduino-compatible 96Boards Sensors adapter board.
$79 Android Wear on MTK2601 (mockup), MT6753 XTouch, MT6735 X550 by Bluboo
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Category: Smartphones, Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Bluboo shows mockup of their upcoming Android Wear smartwatch to be powered by MediaTek MTK2601 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, with a round shape display, 512MB RAM and 4GB ROM, supports SIM cards, bluetooth 4.0 to be priced at $79, mass production will be ready on November. Bluboo also shows their full Smartphone product line from MT6735 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 to MT6753 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53, Full HD screens, big batteries up to 5300mAh. Prices ranging from $120 to $149.
You can contact Blueboo for more info (let them know you watched my video):
Candy, Sales Director
Candy@bluboo.com.cn
Mobile: +86 136 31535501
Skype: candywong68
