Archos is showing a preview of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the OMAP4 based Archos G9 tablets to be finalized during Q1 of 2012. They still have to finish the hardware acceleration for video support, Samba/Upnp, 3G stick support and all of the other specific features that Archos provides on top of Android.
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Archos Home Connect
Posted by – December 6, 2011
$129 Android webradio alarm clock, this can be a nice to have next to your bed. It can wake you up with your Google Music playlists, with your Spotify favorites, with your Pandora, Last.fm, you can use Tune In webradio tuner. It can display trafic informations on a map for your region, show you news healines, pull RSS feed items etc.
Archos Smart Home Phone
Posted by – December 6, 2011
This is perhaps the coolest landline dect phone, because it runs Android, supports not only landline calling functionality, it can integrate with Skype, SIP, Google Voice and more over the WiFi at home and each set costs $149, you can have up to 5 of them running on the same dect network in your home.
ARM Mali-T658 announced
Posted by – November 10, 2011
ARM Media Processing Division’s Jem Davies and Ian Smythe talk about the launch of the new Mali-T658 GPU. It can start to appear in devices by the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013. This is like having a 250 Gigaflops super computer in your pocket. The performance is anywhere from 2x to 4x faster than the Mali-T604 announced last year. Now supporting configurations up to 8 cores. It easilly supports 4K resolutions. It’s compatible with the newly announced ARMv8 64-bit architecture. The Mali-T658 delivers desktop-class performance, achieved by doubling the number of GPU cores, doubling the number of arithmetic pipelines within each core and improving the compiler and pipeline efficiency. Find more information at http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardware/mali-t658.php
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$5 Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 and BeagleBone
Posted by – November 1, 2011
Texas Instruments is launching a $5 ARM Cortex-A8, it’s re-optimized for specific tasks, it can go in tablets, but it can also be used in industrial and medical applications, and certain custom uses, where this can be thought of a high-end microprocessor yet very low cost, it starts at $5 for ordering 100 thousand units. It’s an ARM Cortex-A8 performance for industrial applications at the cost and power usage of ARM9 Microprocessor. TI’s Beagleboard.org community is launching the new $89 BeagleBone to develop on this platform. Watch this 20-minute presentation of this project by TI’s Jakob Alamat, director of marketing for TI’s ARM Microprocessor Sitara platform:
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MHL Consortium shows some of the latest MHL features
Posted by – October 30, 2011
There are now 2 HDTVs that are MHL compliant, the Toshiba WL800A and the Samsung UN46D7000 now also got a firmware update that ads MHL support. Possibly that all new HDTVs will include this functionality. It allows for charging MHL compliant phones and tablets and to remote control them with the TV remote through one simple cable and one Micro-USB connector. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich might add new MHL features to the UI, otherwise the MHL Consortium is trying to convince app developers and smart phone makers to design the apps and the OS to take advantage of the 1920×1080 resolution of the HDTV when using the HDMI output, to provide higher resolution user interfaces, higher resolution games, the ARM Processors and GPU in those phones and tablets are now getting powerful enough to output full 1080p UIs, videos and graphics, it’s time for the industry to take advantage of that! One pocketable phone can now combine the features of Android, Chrome OS and Google TV, it’s now a phone, a desktop, a set-top-box and a home console all in one!
OLPC XO-1.75 hands-on
Posted by – October 30, 2011
I got to play with the new Marvell Armada PXA618 powered One Laptop Per Child XO-1.75 laptop during the ARM Technology Conference. It seems to already be very stable and run very fast, although this is still a beta prototype, with beta software, OLPC, Red Hat, Marvell still have some work to do to optimize the software and complete the hardware so that it can be mass produced and shipped to children around the world starting early next year. Here in this video I walk around with it outdoors for a few minutes and show you some of how it looks like.
B Labs demonstrates Virtualizating 2 OS on ARM
Posted by – October 30, 2011
B Labs can run 2x Android OS, for example one secure business install and one for personal use, or to run Android and a version of Linux.
FirstView pre-approves outsourcing partners in India for US
Posted by – October 30, 2011
FirstView pre-approves potential outsourcing partners and suppliers in India and elsewhere, to enable reliable outsourcing of ARM related PCB design and other ARM optimizations work, tablet, set-top-box designs and more.
ST Microelectronics STM32F4
Posted by – October 30, 2011
ST is the current leader in ARM Cortex-M series shipments, those microprocessors go into everything.
Marvell Armada 618 in the Vizio V-Tab 8″ capacitive sub-$200 tablet
Posted by – October 30, 2011
Marvell provides this low leakage highly optimized single core Armada 618 now in end consumer products and reaching sub-$200 pricing.
ARM Cortex-M4 hardware accelerated Mp3 playback
Posted by – October 30, 2011
ARM Cortex-M4 with a DSP in the Freescale K60 Tower Board to demonstrate hardware accelerated Mp3 playback.
Update on the ST Ericsson SNOWBALL ARM Cortex-A9 development board
Posted by – October 30, 2011
The SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL has been available as a development board for the ST Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 processor for about 4 months now. Here’s an update on how they are doing. Find more at http://igloocommunity.org
Ericsson HSPA+ and LTE modems
Posted by – October 30, 2011
Ericsson is one of the leaders in cellular network infrastructure, for the past 4 years they also make HSDPA, HSPA+ and now also LTE modems to embed in Tablets, Laptops and more.
Mike Muller, ARM CTO, ARMv8 64-bit launch interview
Posted by – October 28, 2011
ARM launches the 64bit ARMv8 Architecture. Here’s my interview with ARM’s CTO Mike Muller on the day of the announcement.
Simon Segars, ARM Inc President, Interview at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 28, 2011
Simon Segars is the President of the US division of ARM. Here’s an interview with him at ARM TechCon 2011 about the state of the ARM industry.
ARM Cortex-A15
Posted by – October 28, 2011
Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of the new and upcoming ARM Cortex-A15 processor, with its new optimized design it can reach huge new ARM Powered performance.
ARM Mali Graphics news at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 28, 2011
The ARM Media Processing Division’s Jem Davies and Ian Smythe talk about the latest news on the ARM Mali Graphics technology, implementation, performance and the technological direction which we can look forward to.
ARM Cortex-A7, big.LITTLE
Posted by – October 28, 2011
Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of this new ARM Processor announcement with information about how it is designed, how it works, where it can be used.
Gary Smith EDA talks about the state of the ARM industry
Posted by – October 28, 2011
Gary Smith is an industry expert at http://garysmitheda.com
