ARM announces the establishment of a new CPU Design Center in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan. This is ARM’s first CPU Design Center in Asia, and it will focus on the design, verification and delivery of the ARM Cortex-M processor series targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and embedded applications markets.
Here’s my Interview with Noel Hurley about ARM Processor Design Strategy.
Allwinner A80 is now getting into customer tablet designs here Allwinner is showing the reference design using the iPad Air Retina 9.7″ display, enabling thinner, lighter high performance Allwinner tablets, with thinner bezel, thinner form factor overall, powered by Allwinner’s upcoming Octa Core big.LITTLE ARM Cortex-A15 and ARM Cortex-A7 with the PowerVR 6230 64-core GPU. Over 8 hours of battery life, potentially over 10 hours of battery life is possible. Allwinner shows how their 8-core big.LITTLE processor has superior performance over every other consumer ARM Processor on the market today. Demonstrating also the new PowerVR 6230 GPU performance, enabling better games, Allwinner A80 potentially plays games as nicely as 3rd generation home consoles on the tablet, on the TV Box home console and more. Allwinner also demonstrates how the big.LITTLE design enables for longer battery life and higher performance as needed.
AAPPAA shows their latest range of Smartphones, starting with the $43 4″ FWVGA IPS MT6572, $60 6″ FWVGA MT6572, $79 5″ qHD IPS MT6582 to the $140 5.5″ FHD IPS with OGS MT6592. Shenzhen AAPPAA is looking for distributors worldwide about distributing AAPPAA’s own brand.
You can contact Shenzhen AAPPAA here (please only contact them if you are a serious distributor/brand, and you can tell them you saw this video):
Summer Liu, Sales Director
summer@aappaa.com
Skype: bobyin2020
Phone: +86 18123748816
E Ink showing off some of the latest most awesome E Ink devices yet released and demonstrated on the market. Taking advantage of the low power high readable E Ink display technology. This includes E Ink Smartwatches, E Ink Carta E-readers, the Sony 13.3″ flexible ultra-light E Ink Digital Paper and more.
Cavium launches the world’s fastest ARM Processor in their family of workload optimized ThunderX 64bit ARMv8 Server Processors (including ThunderX_CP for Cloud, ThunderX_ST for Storage, ThunderX_SC for Security and ThunderX_NT for Networking), for a range of applications in the cloud and data center. With 48 cores running at 2.5GHz each, ThunderX is the world’s highest performing low-power 64-bit ARMv8 SoC family of workload optimized processors with a range of SKUs and form factors for high performance volume compute, storage, secure compute and networking specific workloads. Analysts predict that the global data center infrastructure market, including servers, storage, networking, security and virtualization, will reach $128 billion in 2014. Cavium is hereby taking their share of that market by releasing their extremely high performance custom design ARM Server processor.
This product family is based on highly efficient full custom processor cores designed by Cavium in 28nm process technology under architectural license from ARM. It is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture as well as ARM’s Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) standard while bringing to market dramatic enhancements that include:
-The first ARM based SoC that scales up to 48 cores with up to 2.5 GHz core frequency with 78K of I-Cache and 32K of D-Cache along with 16MB of L2 cache.
– The first ARM based SOC to be fully cache coherent across dual sockets using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™)
– Integrated I/O capacity with 100s of Gigabits of I/O bandwidth
– Four DDR3/4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting 2400 MHz memories with 1TB of memory in a dual socket configuration
– Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization applications.
– Standard based low latency Ethernet fabric interconnecting thousands of ThunderX™ nodes in 2D and 3D configurations and enabling fabric monitoring and SLA enforcements with awareness and policy enforcement for virtualized networks.
– Virtualization everywhere with Cavium virtSOC™ technology – Full system virtualization for low latency from virtual machine to I/O.
– Best in class performance per watt and performance per dollar for the target applications
Where DVB-T2 is yet deployed, in South Asia, Russia and Northern Europe, the Geniatech PT360 enables any Android Phone or Tablet with USB Host and Android 4.1 or above, to connect this on the MicroUSB port to get DVB-T2 support. Geniatech also shows an ARM PC, using ARM PCB Boards instead of the X86 based motherboards, one can just replace the X86 motherboard by Geniatech’s motherboard for industrial use.
With the new quad core ARM Cortex A9 Mstar 9180 chipset, here’s a new model of MeLE Android TV Box with 4K output. It supports decode and output in 4K, which is available now for users to enjoy the 4K (3840*2160) videos on TV. Full video and audio format supported, not only H.265 but also H.264, DTS ,Dolby pass-though. It provides HDMI IN, HDMI out, USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 hosts for external USB drive (up to 3TB). First mass production is scheduled for the end of June.
You can contact MeLE directly here:
OEM & ODM Brand for Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Tina Zhang Email: sales14@mele.cn Skype: tina.zhang703
Contact: Coco Jiang Email: sales8@mele.cn Skype: melecoco
Distributor & Reseller for MeLE Brand of Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Gennie Peng Email: sales10@mele.cn Skype: apvell091
Contact: Isaac Long Email: sales5@mele.cn Skype: isaac_520320
The Allwinner A33 is sampling now, and the first commercially available devices using A33 can be expected around July. The Allwinner A33 is an extremely power efficient processor based on a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali400MP2 GPU. It is pin compatible with the previously released A23 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, greatly speeding up the product time to market. Allwinner claims it has an even lower power consumption level than the dual-core Allwinner A23, while speeding up performance, by offering a balanced combination of the low power ARM Cortex-A7 CPU architecture, advanced fabrication process, optimized DDR technology, hardware 1080p video process support, low power Talking standby mode support during voice call applications, low power MIPI DSI interface, and more. Allwinner A33 features enhanced SmartColor display technology capable of image saturation enhancement and skin tone protection to deliver a better visual effect on tablets, 1080p video playback and capture, Integrated MIPI DSI controller, up to 1280×800 and Integrated Hi-Fi audio codec.
ARM ecosystem innovation enabled by developers having access to low-cost development boards to develop for the Internet of Things, Wearable devices, the Cloud, and more. At Computex 2014, ARM announces the setup of a new CPU Design Center in Taiwan to develop new processors for the Internet of Things and Wearables market.
13.3″ RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A12 with Mali-T764 Powered Chromium OS Laptop. Meet some from the team working on Chrome OS at Rockchip, finalizing Chromium OS optimizations for the RK3288 ARM platform, with commercial Rockchip Chromebooks launching worldwide in Q3 of this year. What do you think is going to be the price for this ARM Powered Chromebook? $149? $179? $199? How is the performance? Battery life? I test a bit of web browsing and the Fish Tank benchmark at the end of this video. I will try to test it more and post some more web browser tests in another video to be posted soon, let me know of anything else you would like to see tested on the RK3288 Chromebook.
Asus shows their $1200 laptop/tablet/phone combination device, with an Intel processor in the Phone (with LTE support) and another Intel processor in the Tablet, with a keyboard dock. They say battery life is fine, we’ll see about that. Price I think is around $1200 or $1300, since they say it costs something like a $1000 laptop + their zenphone. Asus has been showing a lot of Intel devices for many years, but I don’t think they have been selling many.
Movon makes a PCB module based computer which is primarily designed for in vehicle purposes. The module computer runs an embedded Linux operating system. The processor technology is a Arm Cortex A5 from atmel. Movon’s technology is being used by car companies such as TATA. Movon also does testing for other companies such as Samsung. Movon will in the future be developing a driverless car system.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014
The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)‘s portable interactive surface can carried anywhere and enables you to project a fully function from a variety of different devices such as Android devices. The surface can be as large as 20″. The device received a Hong Kong ICT award for 2014. Astri also makes a headmounted display. Unfortunately the demo is somewhat buggy.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014
Adreamer makes a 6.95″ (1024×600) tablet with a dual core mtk 8312 processor, 3g (Dual Sim), and a thin bezel. The 6.95″ tablet sells for 60 USD in bulk. Adreamer also makes a 13.3″ (1280×800) tablet with a Rockchip 3188 processor. The 13.3 model sells for 140 USD in bulk. Adreamer also makes a 8″ (1024×768) tablet with an unspecified MTK dual core Cortex A7 processor. The 8″ model sells for 80 USD in bulk and an extra 10 dollars for IPS screens. Adreamer also makes another 8″ IPS (1280×800) tablet with a MTK 8382 processor and sells for 108 USD in bulk.
A new miracast dongle from MeLE, the MeLE Cast S1. It is a chocolate-sized media streaming device plugging into the HDMI port on your TV. Easy connected by WiFi and easy setup by the EZCast app on your mobile phone or tablet. It allows you to share favorite online shows, movies, music ,documents and more to your TV from your smart devices or notebook. It supports EZcast, Miracast, Airplay, AirMirroring and DLNA, compatible with iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.
You can contact MeLE directly here:
OEM & ODM Brand for Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Tina Zhang Email: sales14@mele.cn Skype: tina.zhang703
Contact: Coco Jiang Email: sales8@mele.cn Skype: melecoco
Distributor & Reseller for MeLE Brand of Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Gennie Peng Email: sales10@mele.cn Skype: apvell091
Contact: Isaac Long Email: sales5@mele.cn Skype: isaac_520320
Keapjoy makes a 7″ Android handheld game console with a Rockchip RK3188 for 75 USD and a 5″ version for 63 USD. Keapjoy makes a durable child tablet with a Rockchip 3026 for 46 USD.
Ation makes a variety of smartwatches that connect via bluetooth. The smartwatches sell for 55 USD for 500 pieces. Ation also makes an Android tablet called the BC-312b with a 7″ (800×480 or 1024×600) display, 512 mb of ram, and a Rockchip 3026 processor. The BC-312b sells for under 40 USD. The BC-315 has a 7″ (1024×600), 512mb or 1gb ram, MTK 8312 processor, and dual sim 3g functionality with phone calling. Ation sells about 100,000 tablets a month.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014
Smartphone manufacturer Maysun shows Android smartwatches with bluetooth in different designs and sizes, some designed by Maysun while others are designed by different companies. Maysun also shows their smartphones with octa core, quad core, and dual core MTK processers in various sizes ranging from 3.5″ to 5.5″. Maysun will also have a LTE smartphone available as soon as MTK makes a chip capable of using LTE.
Contact Maysun (serious importers/distributors only please, tell them you watched the video):
Maysun Info Technology Co Ltd
Sophia, Vice President sophia@chinamaysun.com
Mobile phone: +86 13713890591
Phone: +86 755 88323763 http://www.maysuncn.com
Topwatch is a Shenzhen based manufacturer of wearable devices such as smartwatches and watchphones. Most models contain either a MTK processor or Texas Instruments processor and offer bluetooth functionality. Topwatch sells a Android based smartwatch with a 1.5″ screen and a MTK 6577. The price of the Android smartwatch is 120 USD for 500 units.
Meetion has a device that lets you send music to speakers from devices connected through a wifi network. The device works with both Android and iOS. The wifi player sells for 15 USD in bulk. So far Meetion has sold 10,000 wifi music players a month. Meetion also sells a wireless charger for 7 USD.