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.
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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
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.
PandaBoard, Texas Instruments OMAP4 ARM Cortex-A9
Posted by – November 13, 2010
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.
Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core performance for web browsing
Posted by – November 13, 2010
Here’s a demonstration showing that the second core in ARM Cortex-A9 processors allow for at least 50% performance improvement for such applications as the web browser in Android.
Revo 1 by Revolution Robotics Java Standard Edition based robot
Posted by – November 13, 2010
This is a robot system based on the Marvell Armada plug computer system. Find out more at http://revolution-robotics.com
ST Ericsson U8500 ARM Cortex-A9
Posted by – November 13, 2010
Check out the Meego OS running on this nice new super powerful ARM Cortex-A9 processor and some talk with a representative about the performance and potential of this processor platform.
Marvell Armada XP Quad-core ARM Powered Servers
Posted by – November 11, 2010
A discussion with Marvell about their ARM Powered Servers which could take over the whole cloud computing servers market.
Marvell Armada 100 and 600 for Tablets
Posted by – November 11, 2010
Marvell shows the Armada 100 and Armada 600, explains the differences in price, performance, target markets. Also shows off the Marvell 168 powered Gplug D, the first Guruplug with a HDMI output. The big question I have is which platform will OLPC choose to use for the OLPC XO-3 tablet platform, if it will be one of these or if the timing allows for the even newer and more powerful Marvell Armada 628 Tri-Core processor to be used.
Samsung Orion ARM Cortex-A9 and Mali-400 shown for the first time
Posted by – November 11, 2010
This is Samsung’s new ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Probably, I expect, the processor that will be in the next generation of Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab type of products from Samsung and from manufacturers who will want to use Samsung’s processor in their products. My guess is it may also be fast enough to power Samsung laptops with Chrome OS or some other type of embedded Linux. It seems also to be the first demonstration of Mali-400, to be confirmed. Samsung representatives were not able to confirm anything on this processor at this point.
Freescale Kinetis Tower System now sampling
Posted by – November 11, 2010
The Freescale Tower systems are development kits providing for many of Freescale’s sensors and processing features in a cube. The new Freescale Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 processor and this Kinetis Tower System just started sampling now.
netbooknews.com: LG Optimus P500 Android Smartphone
Posted by – November 5, 2010
Nicole of Netbooknews reports from the LG Optimus press conference in Taiwan. The phone is a 480×320 3.2″ Android phone to retail unlocked for about $332 in Taiwan. It uses the 600Mhz ARM11 Qualcomm MSM7227 processor.
This video was released by: netbooknews.com
OLPC XO-3 unbreakable Pixel Qi to show after CES
OLPC is working to design an unbreakable screen and thus may not have the XO-3 prototypes ready to show at CES in January. Marvell and its partners will likely have lots of tablets to show by then though. An unbreakable and sunlight readable Pixel Qi screen is an important feature of the XO-3 to make it a viable option for developing countries, as well as its abilities to be used for full productivity and for fast text input.
Source: pcworld.com
Super AMOLED 7″ to come next year
Samsung will show the Super AMOLED screen in 2 weeks at the FPD-International exhibition in Japan, but production won’t start before middle of next year when Samsung’s upcoming new Super AMOLED factory is ready to produce larger amounts of these new screens.
Super AMOLED is pretty awesome screen quality, though by then, I would like to also see 4″, 5″, 7″, 10″, 11″, 13″ Pixel Qi LCDs in all tablets, laptops, turning them all into perfect e-readers for outdoor use and with battery runtime upwards 50 hours.
The big question is how much more expensive is Super AMOLED compared to LCD and how much difference in price will it have next year? If people keep buying $500 devices next year, then Samsung can use Super AMOLED and absorb the price difference as a differentiator as those prices are so high. But if $100 Android tablets are common by then, then possibly there won’t be enough demand to justify a 7″ Super AMOLED screen if the manufacturing price is more than double the price of good capacitive Pixel Qi LCD screens.
Mark Shuttleworth loves the Toshiba AC100
The CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, highlighted ARM Servers by Smooth-stone and Tegra2 Powered Toshiba AC100 at his keynote speech at the Ubuntu Developer Conference. He mentions the cool work done to port Ubuntu 10.10 to it: http://ac100.gudinna.com/. Hopefully Nvidia, Canonical people and the open source community will bring about full hardware acceleration for all aspects of Ubuntu 10.10 on this ARM Cortex-A9 laptop design.
Found via: blogarm.net
