Category: Chip provider

ARM Linux Linaro hangout with Zach Pfeffer

Posted by Charbax – November 27, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Samsung, Android

Hanging out with Zach Pfeffer, Android lead at http://linaro.org, they are working to optimize Linux on ARM.

Would you like to join the next Google+ Hangout? Post a comment here with a link to your Google+ Profile or comment under the Google+ Post and I’ll invite you to the next Google+ Hangout on Air! The next one is tonight midnight Copenhagen/Paris/Berlin time, 11PM UK time, 6PM EST, 3PM PST. Make sure I have circled you then look at my Google+ Profile Page at that time to see the Hangout invite. The topic is going to be the stories of the day at http://techmeme.com but it can also be any other technology news topics that you’d like to talk about!

laptopmag.com: Cotton Candy FXI-Tech Exynos4210 HDMI Stick reviewed

Posted by Charbax – November 20, 2012
Category: HDMI Sticks, Allwinner, Rockchip, Freescale, AmLogic, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Telechips, Android

I think the Norwegian guys at Cotton Candy FXI-Tech actually kind of invented the HDMI stick market, when they first showed a prototype of the Cotton Candy exactly a year ago in November 2011. Since then, tons of other ARM SoCs have been shown and released to the worldwide market:
January 2012: Allways Innovating shows OMAP4 on HDMI Stick (not released yet as far as I know),
March 2012: Telechips Cortex-A5 ultra compact HDMI sticks (2, 3) appears (probably still the most compact)
May 2012: The Allwinner A10 Mk802 appears, has taken most of the market, appearing for $74 but now available for $25 from Shenzhen, a version is $40 with free worldwide shipping in the ARMdevices.net members store.
June 2012: Geniatech shows AmLogic single-core Cortex-A9 in HDMI Stick (available for $49 with worldwide shipping in the ARMdevices.net members store)
September 2012: RK3066 is ready for dual-core HDMI sticks
October 2012: The dual-core AmLogic MX HDMI stick and $99 with worldwide shipping the ARMdevices.net members store).
More RK3066 HDMI Sticks shown, the one with Bluetooth, mini-jack audio out and female HDMI port selling for $60 including worldwide shipping the ARMdevices.net members store.
And now perhaps the most powerful HDMI stick on the market is the i.MX6 Quad-core HDMI stick (2), available for $89 including worldwide shipping hopefully starting later today on the ARMdevices.net Members Store.

Read the full review of the Cotton Candy FXI-Tech HDMI Stick with many pictures here: http://blog.laptopmag.com/cotton-candy-tested-fastest-pc-on-a-stick-can-take-over-any-screen

Re-watch my overview video of the latest HDMI Sticks from Shenzhen:

Pierre Cardin’s latest Rockchip RK3066 and RK2928 tablets

Posted by Charbax – November 17, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Pierre Cardin is one of the top Rockchip based tablet makers in Shenzhen China. Here are some of their latest Rockchip based tablets.

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Jon Masters of Red Hat talks about LEG Linaro Enterprise Group, porting Linux on the 64bit ARMv8

Posted by Charbax – November 13, 2012
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Ampere, ARM TechCon, Linaro Connect

Red Hat is working on getting Fedora Linux up and running on ARMv8, Jon Masters talks about LEG Linaro Enterprise Group and getting the full Fedora Linux stack to work on 64bit ARMv8 server hardware from now and during next year as 64bit ARMv8 hardware becomes available. AMD, AppliedMicro, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell and Red Hat join existing Linaro members ARM, HiSilicon, Samsung and ST-Ericsson to form new group focused on accelerating Linux development for ARM servers.

AppliedMicro Shows ARM 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip Hardware and Software

Posted by Charbax – November 3, 2012
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Ampere, ARM TechCon, Ubuntu

Vinay Ravuri, Vice President and General Manager, Server Products at AppliedMicro gives an update on the 64bit ARM X-Gene Server Platform. At ARM Techcon 2012, AppliedMicro, ARM and several open-source software providers gave updates on their support of the ARM 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip Platform.

ARM Powered Chromebook by Samsung

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Laptops, Exclusive videos, Samsung, ARM TechCon, Chrome OS

This is the most awesome device in the world. First Exynos5250 ARM Cortex-A15 Mali-T604 device on the market. I ordered 3 that I’ll hopefully receive tomorrow from Amazon, and that I can video-review over several videos in the days to come. I plan to use this ARM Cortex-A15 Powered Chromebook as my main laptop for all my video-blogging work going forward. I only use YouTube video editor anyway, and I expect to have my 2TB USB3 portable 2.5″ hard drives work quite fine to backup SD cards from the camera, I expect the USB Ethernet adapter to work fine, I expect the performance to be good enough also on a 720p or 1080p external 42″ HDTV as external monitor with external mouse and keyboard, I expect to find FTP support, and hopefully my favorite VPN service providers (especially when I need YouTube while in China) can also be used, perhaps there’s VPN support in extensions. I really look forward to see what performance and battery life optimizations can be made in the weeks and months to come. This isn’t big.LITTLE yet and the battery is ultra thin and light, but I still expect/wonder if this device can be optimized utilizing full Mali-T604 hardware acceleration to reach 10 hours battery life in the months to come.

Testing out Microsoft Surface and Windows RT

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Nvidia, ARM TechCon, Windows

Here’s my first playing around with the $599 Microsoft Surface with Touch Keyboard and other new Windows RT devices from Dell, Asus and Lenovo that are being released to the market.

I think the $599 is a bit expensive, and I’d like a full Chrome browser on RT, I’d like remote access to all x86 apps streamed over a cloud based x86 app hosting service, I’d like Google Search and Google Maps instead of Bing Search and Bing Maps, but otherwise I think the Surface is pretty cool! Lenovo also shows a pretty impressive 11.6″ Windows RT laptop, the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11, but at $799 it’s quite expensive.

InSignal ArndaleBoard Exynos5250 ARM Cortex-A15 Mali-T604 Development Board

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Samsung, ARM TechCon, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu

The $249 http://arndaleboard.org is the worlds most powerful ARM based development board, providing developers with an ARM Cortex-A15 with Mali-T604 Samsung Exynos5250 development platform. It includes Android support now, Chrome OS and Ubuntu support to come soon and more also later. This video includes an unboxing of the development board bundled with the optional $250 7″ touch-screen.

Intrinsyc shows Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A based DragonBoard Development Kit

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, ARM TechCon, Android

The DragonBoard includes:
– The OPEN-Q™ main board with the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A processor with dual-core CPUs, Android 4.0 operating system, WLAN/Bluetooth®/FM (WCN3660), GPS (WGR7640), 1GB SDRAM, 16GB eMMC, Connectors: micro SD, Micro HDMI, mini-USB.
– A carrier board with SIM slot, Audio codec (WCD9310), USB, Dual SATA, Dual USB & Ethernet, JTAG & RS 232, 5.1 Audio Surround, Expansion Connectors.
– A peripheral kit which includes a battery, a 4” MIPI Display Capacitive MultiTouch screen Daughter Board, and a MIPI 8MP Camera Daughter Board

You can read more about it at: http://intrinsyc.com/products/qualcomm/dragonboard.aspx

ARM Techcon Keynote: Samsung Industry Address: Enabling the Super Devices of Tomorrow

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, Samsung, ARM TechCon, Android, Chrome OS

John Kalkman, Vice President, System LSI, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Abstract: Mobile computing devices are evolving faster than today’s process technology can support. The solution is in the total system design. By employing a wide range of innovative system centric technologies, we can enable tomorrows workloads today.

Speaker Bio: John Kalkman is Vice President of Marketing for Samsung Semiconductor Inc’s business in the Americas. As a senior member of the development team, John is responsible for setting the strategic direction for Samsung Semiconductor overall System LSI business which includes all logic business including application processor, image sensor and several other contributing silicon. With key target markets such as smartphones, tablets and notebooks, this division is gaining attention throughout the industry for its award-winning Exynos application processors as well as market-leading CMOS image sensor products.

Freescale Kinetis L Series: Freescale Freedom Platform, $12.95 Cortex-M0+ Arduino development board

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon

The FRDM-KL25Z is an ultra-low-cost development platform enabled by Kinetis L Series KL1 and KL2 MCUs families built on ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor. Features include easy access to MCU I/O, battery-ready, low-power operation, a standard-based form factor with expansion board options and a built-in debug interface for flash programming and run-control. The FRDM-KL25Z is supported by a range of Freescale and third-party development software.
Features:
– MKL25Z128VLK4 MCU — 48 MHz, 128 KB flash, 16 KB SRAM, USB OTG (FS), 80LQFP
– Capacitive touch “slider,” MMA8451Q accelerometer, tri-color LED
– Easy access to MCU I/O
– Sophisticated OpenSDA debug interface
– Mass storage device flash programming interface (default) — no tool installation required to evaluate demo apps
– P&E Multilink interface provides run-control debugging and compatibility with IDE tools
– Open-source data logging application provides an example for customer, partner and enthusiast development on the OpenSDA circuit

You can read more about it at: http://freescale.com/frdm-kl25z

Freescale Kinetis K70 on Tower with integrated display control unit

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon

The K70 MCU family includes 512KB-1MB of flash memory, a single precision floating point unit, Graphic LCD Controller, IEEE 1588 Ethernet, full- and high-speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go with device charge detect, hardware encryption, tamper detection capabilities and a NAND flash controller.

256-pin devices include a DRAM controller for system expansion. The Kinetis K70 family is available in 196 and 256 pin MAPBGA packages.

More info: http://freescale.com/k70

Marvell Armada XP Server Platform in the Mitac GFX

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2012
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon, Ubuntu

Marvell is in production with their Armada XP ARM server processor platform, here demonstrated in the Mitac GFX server. You can also watch my Mitac server videos filmed last Computex:
MiTAC GFX ARM Server Launch: Gary Rumney and Ian Ferguson talk about ARM Powered Servers
MiTAC GFX ARM Server

HardKernel Odroid-X2, Exynos4412 1.7Ghz 2GB RAM development board

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Samsung, ARM TechCon, Android, Ubuntu

HardKernel presents their latest update to the ODROID-X Exynos4412 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 development board. This new ODROID-X2 ships with the 1.7Ghz (1.8Ghz over-clockable) Exynos4412 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, with 2GB RAM, and a higher clocked 533Mhz Mali-400 quad-core GPU. The price is $149, the 16GB eMMC memory (4x to 5x faster than booting/running from SD Card) is $39 extra, the $9 power adapter is recommended also, then also add about $30 for shipping. Here is Ubuntu running, with support for doing things like compiling the Linux kernel on this ARM powered device supposedly with a performance superior to the first generation Intel Core i3 processor. Mali-400 hardware acceleration for Ubuntu should be coming soon, it’s already there for Android of course. The ODROID-X2 should start shipping from http://hardkernel.com by the end of November.

Pictures of their catalog, click for full size:

OLPC XO-4 Touch to be Marvell Armada PXA2128 Powered

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon, OLPC

The One Laptop Per Child project is going to release the Marvell Armada PXA2128 ARM Powered Laptop in Q1 2013, thus with Marvell’s new tri-core processor and touch screen support.

Marvell Classroom 3.0 SMILE Plug

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon

This is the Marvell powered Stanford’s Mobile Inquiry Based Learning Environment (SMILE), it’s an ARM Powered Plug Server and WiFi hotspot for classrooms around the world. One of these can support up to 60 devices over WiFi, synchronize all learning data and server school exercises.

Here’s the official SMILE project video:

TSMC at ARM Techcon 2012

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, TSMC, ARM TechCon

TSMC talks about 10nm and the upcoming technologies that they are implementing with their customers to fabricate newer faster ARM processors for everyone.

AMD makes ARM Cortex-A57 64bit Server Processor

Posted by Charbax – October 31, 2012
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, AMD, ARM TechCon

AMD has announced that they are launching a new ARM Cortex-A57 64bit ARMv8 Processor in 2014, targetted for the servers market. This is an interview with Andrew Feldman, VP and GM of Data Center Server Solutions Group at AMD. Do you have any more questions you may want to ask AMD about the release of their first ARM Processor? Let me know in the comments, and I can try to ask them again here at ARM Techcon in Santa Clara during the next couple of days.

ARM Keynote: ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 64bit ARMv8 processors launched

Posted by Charbax – October 31, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Servers, Exclusive videos, Samsung, AMD, Broadcom, ARM TechCon, ARM

Full 1 hour 9 minutes video of the ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 launch keynote here at the ARM Techcon in Santa Clara.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fireside Chat at ARM Techcon 2012

Posted by Charbax – October 31, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, GlobalFoundries, ARM TechCon

Fireside chat with ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES at ARM Techcon 2012 in Santa Clara.

“The insatiable need for functional and feature integration on to Mobile SoCs, coupled with ever increasing performance demands has challenged the Foundries and Fabless Semiconductor companies alike. While the diminishing geometries of the process technologies have kept pace to address this challenge, the solutions for leakage power dissipation continued to fall behind threatening to thwart the advances in Mobility. The ground-breaking FinFET technology is the right low-power solution and will serve as an inflection point to further enable SoC-level integration and technological advances in this exciting era of Extreme Mobility. The panel will discuss how the next generation of FinFET technology will change the mobile revolution again.”

Speakers

Dean Freeman, Research VP, Gartner Research
Bruce Kleinman, VP, Product Marketing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Subramani Kengeri, Vice President, Technology Architecture Office of the CTO, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Srinivas Nori, Director. SOC Innovation, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Dipesh Patel, Deputy General Manager of the Physical IP Division, ARM