This is the big announcement from Asus at this Computex. They add a screen, which significantly reduces the battery life (if both screens are in use at the same time). This announcement sounds to me like a usual type of announcement for Asus, last year it was the Asus PadPhone. I think none are going to be popular. The form factors just seem to be wrong, price too high, power consumption too high, usability non-seamless. Intel/Microsoft are just not the right combination for success anymore.
Category: Chip provider
Patrik Klinger Program Manager of the ST-Ericsson Snowball development platform at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 3, 2012
Amber Graner interviews Patrik Klinger at Linaro Connect.
Linaro improvements to Android 4.0.4 performance on the Pandaboard TI OMAP4430 platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Bernhard Rosenkränzer who is the Android Toolchain expert at Linaro shows how Linaro’s version of Android 4.0.4 runs about twice as fast as stock Android 4.0.4 on the TI OMAP4430 Powered Pandaboard.
Ricardo Salveti shows Unity 3D working on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
It’s the OpenGL ES port that they have been working on for quite a while.
Headmounted augmented-reality game and brain activity robot remote controller
Posted by – June 1, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura Director of the OESF lets me try some of his latest projects which are the headmounted Android on Pandaboard computer system that has augmented reality application that turns real people into shoot them up characters and that allows for brain activity based robot remote-controlling.
Tizen prototype
Posted by – May 31, 2012
I’m checking out a Tizen development kit prototype for the first time. I’m not sure I understand the meaning of it, it seems there is not coming much out of Maemo, Meego, Limo, Bada etc. At least not yet. This looks to be a semi-continuation of Intel’s and Nokia’s open source project which makes me extra dubious.
Mathieu Poirier of the ST-Ericsson Landing Team at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Mathieu Poirier talks about how Android came up on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform.
Rockchip RK3066 is now Google Certified
Rockchip announces:
RK3066 is ready for Google GMS on Android 4.0.4
– Android CTS ALL PASSED
detail: http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html
– Google WIDEVINE DRM Supported
detail: http://www.widevine.com/
– OTA (over-the-air) Update Supported
Dell unveils ARM Powered servers
Check out the articles on Google News.
The 3U rackmount chassis has 48 ARM servers with a total of 192 processor cores, with each ARM server drawing a maximum of 15 watts of power. Each server uses Marvell’s quad-core Armada XP 78460 chip, which runs at 1.6GHz, and has error correction features, networking and storage components.
Related articles
- See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers (gigaom.com)
Paul McKenney of IBM at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 29, 2012
Paul McKenney talks about the ARM big.LITTLE Linux kernel work.
$74 Boxchip A10 HDMI stick
Posted by – May 28, 2012
This Boxchip based HDMI stick has been talked about over the past couple weeks on some blogs under the names MK802, Zero Devices Z802 etc. The Bill of Materials for this device might be as low as $20 but it’s being sold at around $70 at retail at the moment. Here’s a link to buy it for $70 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/MVjdxQ
Related articles
- $74 PC-on-the-go released, ICS on board (thegadgetsite.com)
- A $74 micro PC ‘MK802’ runs Android 4.0 and Linux (ibnlive.in.com)
- 74 USD AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 Mini PC (electronics-lab.com)
- $74 Android PC on a Stick Sells Out, Stock to Return in June (hothardware.com)
- New $74 Android mini computer is slightly larger than a thumb drive (arstechnica.com)
- $74 MK802 Android micro-PC take on the Cotton Candy, RasPi (geek.com)
- $74 Android 4.0 powered PC on a stick goes on sale (electronista.com)
- $74 PC on a USB Stick Sold Out (for Now) (scientificamerican.com)
- $74 MK802 PC-on-a-stick beats Cotton Candy to market, has ICS on board (engadget.com)
Patrik Klinger of ST-Ericsson at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
ST-Ericsson ramps up their work with Linaro. Patrik Klinger, Program Manager at ST-Ericsson talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about ST-Ericsson’s work with Linaro to improve development on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball development platform.
AllWinner Boxchip software engineers at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
3 engineers from http://www.allwinnertech.com talk about how they are using Linaro, what they are looking to get from Linaro, how they want to work with Linaro at the Linaro Connect Q2 2012 conference.
$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour
Posted by – May 27, 2012
Watch this 7-minute Shenzhen factory tour, see how they are assembling the $55 (soon $49) Boxchip A13 7″ Capacitive tablet. This Shenzhen factory assembly line currently cranks out about 4000 such tablets in a days work. If you like this video, you should also watch my Shenzhen Speakers Factory video that I posted last month.
$55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 SMT line, mass producing the Boxchip A13 PCB
Posted by – May 27, 2012
Here they are cranking out a few thousand Boxchip A13 and Boxchip A10 motherboards every day.
Yooe F4, Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core 9.7″ Tablet, $220-$250, mass manufacturing next month
Posted by – May 27, 2012
The new Quad-core ARM Corte-A9 processor from Freescale is about to be launched in devices, as shown here at the PCB design house in Shenzhen that is currently working on the PCB optimizations/finalizations before mass manufacturing of this i.MX6 Quad-core based ICS Android tablet. Yooe plans to sell it for somewhere between $220-$250 depending on their final target manufacturing price. 100 samples are to be manufactured in June, and at least 5000 should be made in July. You’ll soon be able to buy samples of this device on ARMdevices.net, check back for info on that.
Gemei G9T, 9.7″ AmLogic AML8726-MX ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This new Dual-core 9.7″ tablet sells now for around $200 in Shenzhen.
Pelec Industrial Company Limited sells $150 Rockchip RK2918 based 9.7″ tablet
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This company sells thousands of the Rockchip RK2918 9.7″ IPS tablet for around $150 each.
Rockchip Shenzhen Headquarters entrance
Posted by – May 27, 2012
The Rockchip offices in Shenzhen are top secret, hundreds of engineers work there, I have not yet gotten the permission to film with the engineers nor to film further than the entrance, but I’ll try to get that permission again in a week or two.
