Hexiwear platform enables IoT edge node and wearable development. Completely open-source and developed by MikroElektronika in partnership with NXP. The Hexiwear hardware includes the low power, high performance Kinetis K6x Microcontroller based on ARM Cortex-M4 core, the Kinetis KW40Z multimode radio SoC, supporting BLE in Hexiwear. The Hardware features included 6 on-board sensors such as Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Accelerometer and Magnetometer, Gyroscope, Temperature, Humidity, light and Pressure sensors. Hexiwear also includes Color OLED Display, Rechargeable battery and External flash memory. Hexiwear is supported with its own application for Android and iOS, so users can connect the device to the cloud straight out of the box, without any additional software development required. Hexiwear uses FreeRTOS, the Kinetis software development kit (SDK) and the Kinetis Design Studio IDE. It’s available for $49 at http://www.hexiwear.com/shop/
Category: Chip provider
ARM Cortex-M33, ARM Cortex-M23, ARMv8-M, TrustZone, IoT Technology Suite
ARM launches their first ARM Cortex-M processors based on ARMv8-M architecture with ARM TrustZone technology,
IoT subsystem with ARM CoreLink system IP for fastest, lowest-risk path to silicon, Secure SoC designs fortified by TrustZone CryptoCell technology, Complete wireless solution with ARM Cordio radio IP for 802.15.4 and Bluetooth 5, Cloud-based service for secure management of IoT devices via ARM mbed Cloud, Optimized implementation on ARM Artisan IoT POP IP for the TSMC 40ULP process.
ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 are the first embedded processors based on the ARMv8-M architecture, bringing the proven secure foundation of ARM TrustZone to the most constrained IoT nodes. The majority of the top ten global MCU suppliers have already licensed one or both processors. Lead partners include Analog Devices, Microchip, Nuvoton, NXP, Renesas, Silicon Labs and STMicroelectronics.
The highly versatile Cortex-M33 features configuration options including a coprocessor interface, DSP and floating point computation, with increased performance and efficiency relative to Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4. The Cortex-M23 takes security to the most constrained devices, building on the standard set by Cortex-M0+ as an ultra-low power microprocessor in a tiny footprint
The new Cortex-M processors are backwards compatible with ARMv6-M and ARMv7-M architectures for direct and fast porting, accelerating product development. TrustZone CryptoCell-312 fortifies the SoC with a rich set of security features protecting the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of code and data.
Read the full press release here: https://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-accelerates-secure-iot-from-chip-to-cloud.php
Acer Chromebook R13 on MediaTek MT8173C dual ARM Cortex-A72 and dual ARM Cortex-A53
The first ARM Cortex-A72 powered Chromebook, the first MediaTek Chromebook, powered by the Quad-core big.LITTLE MediaTek MT8173C Dual ARM Cortex-A72 and Dual ARM Cortex-A53 with PowerVR GX6250 GPU. This Acer Chromebook R13 is priced currently at $399, available now in the USA, soon should also be available in Europe. It looks great with a full sized HDMI, USB3 port, one USB Type-C port and a headset port. I am tempted to buy one, but I think I’ll wait and see which Chromebooks will be released in the days/weeks to come, especially the rumored Rockchip RK3399 Powered Samsung Chromebook Pro.
ARM mbed cloud with IBM Watson Internet of Things
Doug Anson, ARM IoT Solutions Architect talks about how ARM has worked with IBM to integrate ARM mbed with IBM Watson IoT platform on Bluemix Cloud Platform. The demo uses ARM Cordio Bluetooth sending a Google Physical Web URL to the Chrome Browser in the smartphone, creating an ability for the Chrome browser to interact with Bluetooth, enabling payment for parking meters by Bluetooth from the parking meter. Hooking up with the backend through IBM Watson, integrating with IBM’s payment service and blockchain service.
malideveloper.arm.com Vulkan, GPU Compute
ARM shows Vulkan API support on the Exynos 8890 Quad-core Samsung M1 (custom big core by Samsung), Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Also showing computer vision deep neural network database by Luxosft that allows detection of objects offline that uses GPU Compute for optimal performance
Augmented Pixels, enabling fully autonomous Drones, Robots, Augmented VR
Vitaliy Goncharuk is the Founder of Augmented Pixels, explains how his company’s technology can enable computer vision for fully autonomous drones, robots on ARM Processors, providing the SLAM SDK to enable real-time obstacle avoidance, object/person follow tracking and more on basic ARM Processors, even on ARM Cortex-M based processors, enabling DJI Phantom 4 like features on sub-$100 ARM Powered Drones, maybe.
Latest Allwinner products, Laptops, 2-in-1, VR, Tablets, IoT, Robots, Drones, Car DVRs
Tour of the Allwinner showroom at China Sourcing Fair 2016, with Damien from the Allwinner Business Development group (industry insiders can contact him at Damien@allwinnertech.com), showing the latest products powered by Allwinner on the market, such as the Phoenix OS based Laptop, Double OS (dual UI of Android) for 2-in-1 market developed in partnership with the Phoenix OS team, the latest Android Marshmallow tablets, including the Aikun Morphus X300 powered by Allwinner. Here also are presented the latest Allwinner powered all-in-one VR devices starting with Allwinner A33 and support for A83T and A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Allwinner also shows some Smart Home IoT type products powered by Allwinner such as smart vacuum cleaner, smart home robot and smart wifi speaker (Amazon Alexa or Google Home possibly possible), talking about next year’s successor of the Allwinner A33 for the tablet market, which they might do on a lower nanometer to lower power consumption and optimize the low-cost Tablet market further. Allwinner shows some of their Phablets released in partnership with qualcomm, where Allwinner is helping to get shipped Qualcomm based LTE tablets on Snapdragon 200 and 400 series working with the design houses and factories in Shenzhen to get them done more. Allwinner has a big position in the auto market with after market smart Android powered smart mirrors, smart car dashboard and Smart car-dvr products which are quite popular in China, adding object recognition, car parking support, lane departure and car distance alerts and more. Allwinner is also in Drones with their camera chip, in E Ink Android based e-readers, smart speakers (with multi-room sync), and web-TV Karaoke tablets popular in the Chinese market.
Neostra VR Headsets and Laptops
Neostra’s Virtual reality headset supports full hd 1080p resolution and runs on a Rockship rk3288 with options for higher resolutions and other processors. The 1080p virtual reality headset sells for 105 USD 125 for 2k resolution.
Neostra also makes ultra portable laptops based Intel z8300 processors.
Neostra also makes tablets and other devices for companies such as Acer and Hewlett Packard.
Eken 360 dual lens camera
Eken is a Chinese manufacturer of Cameras. Eken makes the 360 camera which supports 4k and a full array of connectivity options.
Yuko RK3399, RK3288, RK3126 VR Headsets
Yuko makes a Virtual Reality headset with a Rockchip RK3399 processor and a resolution of 2k on a screen size of 5.5″. Yuko VR headsets run on modified Android systems. Yuko VR also can be used with bluetooth controllers. Yuko also produces a lower end VR headset with a Fullhd resolutiona Rockchip Rk3288. Yuko also makes a VR heaset with a 720p resolution and a Rockchip RK3126 processor. The 2k VR headset 150 USD, the 720p model is 48 USD, and the fullhd model is 93 USD, all in quantities of 1,000 pieces or more. Yuko also makes stand alone headsets with no components built in which attach to smartphones in various designs.
Distributors can contact YUKO here:
Sunny Wang, Sales Director
sunny@sc-digital.cn
$139 Elephone S7 and R9, MediaTek deca-core Helio X20 with 5.5″ FHD JDI bezel-less display
Elephone S7 is a beautiful phone starting at $139 are showing their newest 5.5″ FHD 1080p JDI curved-to-sides bezel-less display, running on the MediaTek Helio X20 MTK6797, tri-cluster dual ARM Cortex-A72, quad high frequency ARM Cortex-A53 and quad low frequency ARM Cortex-A53. Runs Android 6.0, has Front 5.0MP + Rear 13.0MP with AF and flash light, BT4.0, GPS, Hotknot, OTG, OTA, Iris Recognition, Smart gestures, Wake Gesture, 3000mAh, Dual nano SIM dual standby. Comes with 2GB/3GB and 4GB RAM with 16/32/64GB Flash. You can pre-order this phone at http://www.elephone.hk
the official video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYl8fEywmY
Aikun welcomes Nintendo Switch
Aikun has patented the Morphus X300 design, and is happy to see Nintendo join them in the same direction for the future of gaming. Aikun encourages Nintendo to reach out and to officially release all the back-catalog of Nintendo games from Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES officially into the Google Play, into an officially Nintendo-supported 3D-display enabled, controller optimized Nintendo games emulator for Android. For example, Nintendo could offer a $5/month or $10/month fee for unlimited gaming on Android/Switch, that could be perfect, and it could be very lucrative for Nintendo, to make all their games compatible with the 3 Billion Android devices that are shipped every year. We definitely expect that Nintendo Switch is also Android based and offers an LTE Sim card slot version, also possibly leading the way for a Nintendo Phone, Nintendo HDMI Stick TV Dongle and more. Android Smart TVs could have the Nintendo Switch Android app pre-loaded (with a 3-months free trial). Nintendo should also program and release all their Nintendo Switch games to be compatible with all modern Android devices, not to only run on Nintendo’s own hardware. Game developers only need to program their games once for Android, and that should make the games also available on all other Android devices shipped in the world. At the same time also Nintendo can release high quality well designed side game controller Bluetooth accessories to be used using with any sized smartphone and with any tablet, to add high quality game controls on each side of any Android or iOS device. Right now, Aikun encourages all gaming fans to consider buying the Aikun Morphus X300 which is immediately available on https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017CWO2CK and on http://aikun.co/index.php?ac=article&at=list&tid=114 (with Amazon.com ($249), Amazon.de (249€), Amazon.fr (249€) and Amazon.jp (28999¥) links and stock to be available by November)
JmGO S1 Laser TV, JmGO X1 1080p DLP Projector with auto-focus
JmGO shows their latest short-throw 4000lumen DLP Laser projector, projecting on a 100″ screen, it can also project to 120″ in FHD. It has a built-in Mstar6A828 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Quad-core Mali450 GPU running JmGO’s custom UI on Android 5. The projector offers an extremely large and bright image projected at a very short distance, with 50000″1 contract ratio, supporting a clear image size up to 300 inches, the system supports many codecs decoded at up to 4K, Ethernet, Miracast, Airplay, DLNA and more. The price is about $3755.
JmGO X1 is JmGO’s new 1080p projector with auto-focus, using a smart camera system or sensor it automatically can focus regardless the distance it is at from the wall, at 950Lumen, it costs about $751 in China. Also running the Mstar6A828 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali450 GPU, also comes with an amazingly awesome remote control with a clickable scroll wheel well placed for thumb usage.
Here you can also see JmGO’s official presentation videos for JmGO S1:
and for the JmGO X1:
$69 Gole2 on Indiegogo, Intel Z8350 Windows10 or Allwinner A64 Phoenix OS
Introducing Gole2 on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/at/gole2 starts at $69 (early bird for the Allwinner A64 ARM Powered version), here I show off both the Intel Cherrytrail Z8350 Windows 10 based Gole2 and the Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Phoenix OS Android based Gole2. It comes with 1xUSB3, 2xUSB2, HDMI, Ethernet, Mini-Jack, MicroSD and more.
Gole’s official website: http://gole.tech
Drone Lead-Go smartphones with MTK6735P, MTK6572/6582
Drone Lead-go (HK) Digit Technology Co., Ltd is a HongKong-based manufacturer of that shows here their DLG502 smartphone running a 5†720p display, MediaTek MTK6735P chipset, 1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, 8MP + 2MP front/rear camera configuration, and LTE connectivity for Chinese TDD bands. It sells for US$52 at an MoQ of 3000 units. The DLG5W5 uses MTK6582, 5†TN LCD display (854x480px), 512MB RAM, VGA+2MP camera configuration, 4GB ROM and 3G connectivity for US$33. Their 3G tablet with an 8†display costs US$39.
$15 Pine64 Development Board on 64bit Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
Pine64 is one of the most successful 64bit ARM development boards yet, raising $1.7 Million on Kickstarter, shipping to 36,781 backers, it’s released as a $15 development board, featuring the 64bit Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with ARM Mali400 MP2 GPU. Allwinner announces their partnership with Microsoft to get Windows 10 Azure IoT to run on this development board. It can also run several Linux, Android and more.
Allwinner Partner Conference 2016
Here’s a tour at the Allwinner Partner Conference 2016 in Shenzhen China. Where Allwinner joins with their partners in Shenzhen to discuss and develop the roadmap for the future of Allwinner powered devices, showing examples of devices powered by Allwinner such as Bluetooth and WiFi speakers, Allwinner powered machine learning software, home karaoke machine, Allwinner powered Drone potentially soon with obstacle avoidance and follow object tracking features, portable TV player, educational tablet, video-conferencing device, digital photo frame, 2-in-1 tablet laptop convertible, point-of-sale device. Allwinner is also pushing strongly into the all-in-one VR segment, Remix OS Laptops and Desktop, Set-top-box aiming for OTT Set-top-box solutions for the operator to deploy.
Allwinner Partner Conference 2016 introduction
Allwinner organises their Partnership Conference in Shenzhen, talking about some of the new and upcoming technologies powered by Allwinner. Trying to guide the ecosystem in the right direction, deciding the roadmap for the future. Allwinner is not just tablets, it’s now also expanding into new areas such as VR, IoT, Laptops, Desktops, Set-top-boxes, Windows Azure and more. Industry insiders who want to develop new projects with Allwinner can contact Damien of the Business Development department at Allwinner here: Damien@allwinnertech.com
