This video shows one of the GPU tuning tools (PVRTune) used during A80 development. To run the tests, an A80T tablet is hooked up to a host computer running PVRTune. A tester can then operate different use cases on the tablet (scrolling through the GUI, playing games, etc) while seeing how GPU load is affected on the host computer’s PVRTune display window. In this video, we see how the GPU’s 3D engine is loaded while scrolling through Android’s stock GUI. When performance bottlenecks are spotted, this tool can help engineers better distinguish CPU/GPU root causes, increasing debugging efficiency.
Allwinner A80T Onda V989 Tablet now shipping! new Smart features!
Posted by – July 17, 2014
The first tablet based on the Allwinner A80 is now shipping out of China! It’s the Onda V989, using the nice ultra slim iPad Air display, this tablet looks extremely sleek and nice. Here Allwinner is showing off some of their new Smart features, including the cool “always on” sensor that wakes the device up with just a double-touch of the display (similar to LG knock-on feature, and similar somewhat to previous Moto X sensor fusion stuff), they also have a few head-tracking Smart functions that they added in settings, taking advantage of their hardware accelerated head-tracking feature: Smart Pause pauses video when you look away from the screen, Smart Rotate does not rotate the screen when you for example lie down on the bed, Smart Stay means the screen always stays on if you are still looking at it when the dimming setting kicks in (it overrides screen dimming). More specs, pricing, and other stuff to follow, let me know what you might like me to test on this tablet in a next video about it.
Onda V989 Specs, Price:
Ultra-light, extremely narrow bezel 9.7” 2048×1536 IPS LCD
OctaCore A7/A15 CPU
64-Core PowerVR G6230 GPU
2GB LPDDR3
32BG eMMC
G-Sensor, Gyroscope, USB 3.0
WiFi + BT 4.0
0.3MP/5MP
China Market Price 1099 RMB
Allwinner Headquarters Entrance in Zhuhai China!
Posted by – July 17, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Allwinner
Here at the Allwinner Headquarters in Zhuhai China, few months before they open their brand new giant R&D headquarters just next to the one they are currently at. Their new headquarters can include more than 1000 employees, 85% of their employees at their Zhuhai headquarters are engineers, working on chip design, PCB optimization, Android optimization/updates/features, product development, customer support and much more! Check back on http://ARMdevices.net in the next few days for a range of videos filmed at the Allwinner headquarters!
Unuiga TV-Mounted Video-conferencing RK3188 Android Set-top-box
Posted by – July 12, 2014
Unuiga sells this RK3188 Powered TV-Mounted Android TV Box, configured for video-conferencing, with an RF Air Mouse (with built-in microphone and headphones), the back side includes 4 USB Host ports, HDMI port, AV Out, Optical out, Ethernet port, Dual-antenna, built-in front-facing video camera. Unuiga are working also on RK3288 at their PCB Design House and Factory and SMT. You can also watch this video about Unuiga’s company history.
You can contact Unuiga here:
Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976
Netronix E Ink Smartwatch
Posted by – July 12, 2014
Netronix is showing their upcoming new flexible E Ink Smartwatch design, using the E Ink display means the display remains always-on, and it has Bluetooth 4.0 features with Android 4.4 and iOS7, 77grams, 4-6 days battery life, the price can be around $70-$80. Netronix is a Taiwan based design house, they deliver E Ink based ARM Powered devices for customers that buy bulk and brand it.
MediaTek LinkIt Aster MT2502, new SoC for entry-level Smartwatches
Posted by – July 12, 2014
MediaTek launches the Linkit platform called Aster MT2502, combining the MCU, PMIC, Bluetooth, Memory and Modem all into one chip. Lowering the power consumption, lowering the size, and even lowering the cost, MediaTek also introduces the Tiny System that kicks-in to standby mode on a lowered 26Mhz CPU frequency, down from a peak of 260Mhz that this MT2502 is designed to run at. When the Smartwatch is in use, it runs on RTOS Nucleus OS, running basic Smart functions with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy. Thus lower power (runs up to 4 days) compared to the existing MediaTek MT6260 platform which already runs a whole range of sub-$30 Smartwatches on the market. Supports QVGA 320×240 displays only, MediaTek is working with all kinds of different display providers including also E Ink. To accelerate development on their Linkit, MediaTek launches the MediaTek Labs providing a development board with SDK, find more information at http://www.mediatek.com/en/labs/
MediaTek MT6592 with LTE MT6290 and big.LITTLE MT6595 with LTE
Posted by – July 11, 2014
Here’s the MediaTek MT6592 with LTE Support, ripping out the modem part and adding MediaTek’s Multimode Worldwide Cat4 LTE modem 150mbit/150mbit, it’s thus packaged together. This is MediaTek entering the LTE market, power consumption being optimized, the next generation big.LITTLE MT6595 with integrated LTE is four ARM Cortex-A15 and four ARM Cortex-A7 where the modem part is using ARM Cortex-R4 arriving in Q3. MediaTek’s 64bit SoC may also be available as soon as the end of this year.
Bluetimes cooperate with Realtek Realease wirless transmission solution based on RTD1185PA-GR & RTL8192DU/RTL8188CUS
Posted by – July 8, 2014
Bluetimes and Realtek launch a wireless transmission screen solution based on chip RTD1185 system & RTL8192DU or RTL8188CUS Wifi chipset. This works with consumer products such as computers, tablet, mobile phones and provides Miracast, DLNA, Intel WIDI to satisfy users for portable devices with larger screen with high quality and low latency between the wireless transmission of screen application demand.
Advantages of this solution :
1. RTD1185 system chip and RTL8192DU double-frequency 2 x2 wi-fi chip set of wireless transmission solution to become the first screen Miracast certification test platform.
• 2. BOM highly integrated DDR (ETN, HDMI, 128 m).
• 3. Support on the market all the Wifi display technology: Intel WiDi, Miracast, DLNA, as well as the self-developed Airfun.
, 4. RTD1185 format for the whole decoding multimedia chip, IC leading manufacturer for the multimedia player, so-called Full hd media player can encode any formats with movie.
• 5. Membership Realtek netcom department, to provide a complete set of main chip and the Wifi chip solutions.
• 6. Strong BLUETIMES FAE engineering team to provide hardware/software engineering support.
• CPU: 500MHz
• HD MPEG 1/2/4 & HD JPEG Decoder
• HD H.264, VC1, RM/RMVB, AVS Decoder
• AV Streaming/Transmission via Ethernet & WiFi
• TV Encoder with CVBS/S- Video/YPbPr/SCART Out
• HDMI v1.3 with CEC
• I2S, SPDIF Out
• USB2.0 Host & PHY
• USB2.0 Device & PHY
• 10/100 Ethernet MAC & PHY
• Gigabit Ethernet MAC
• PCI-Express
• Card Reader (SD/MMC)
If you are interesting with Bluetimes Mircast Full hd media player or other product pls email sales1@ebluetimes.com. Direct phone line +86 755 27318811 to Alex Dou.
My father’s funeral – part 3 of 3
Posted by – July 6, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos
A year ago, my father was buried here. This has been the hardest year of my life, without him guiding me, without his comment and without him telling me what to do. Nobody to sit in his chair, nobody to see what he would have seen, a mystery of his past.
$69 Game Box X8 with Joystick from MeLE
Posted by – July 4, 2014
Latest android game box X8 with unique remote control and joystick from MeLE, it comes with 2G DDR3 RAM and 8GB ROM. It is powered by Allwinner A31 chipset and PowerVR SGX 544MP2. It comes with latest new shinning red casing and WiFi allowing you to enjoy games on TV at home. MeLE has already tuned and made 100 games compatible and workable on MeLE X8, they will keep working on that and will invite developers to support and benefit from it. For only 69 USD retail price, shipping since 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
Official Company Website: http://www.mele.cn
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/meleofficialstore
Official Aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968
All inquiries will be reviewed and responded promptly (in 24 hours)
If you have any urgent questions you can call +86 18675512024
$29 Wireless Audio Adapter from MeLE
Posted by – July 4, 2014
A brand new smart device from MeLE, the Wireless Audio Adapter. It is a bridge allowing for streaming music from phones, tablets to speakers and amplifers. It is all controlled by AirFun app on your mobile devices through 2.4G wireless, which is easy to setup and enjoy. There are audio output jack, micro USB host for charging and also USB 2.0 host for playing music from external USB drive. The sound is solid and stable. $29 is the suggested retail price.
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
Official Company Website: http://www.mele.cn
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/meleofficialstore
Official Aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968
All inquiries will be reviewed and responded promptly (in 24 hours)
If you have any urgent questions you can call +86 18675512024
MHL Laptop Dock from AmTRAN
Posted by – June 27, 2014
Using MHL 2.0 and 3.0, these ultra thin ultra-book looking Laptop Dock shells, here AmTRAN shows the upcoming extremely nice looking 11.6″ MHL Laptop Dock, with an MHL input along with drivers to run the display, a sleek keyboard, mousepad, and USB Host ports to connect more if you want. Then your MHL enabled Smartphone reconfigures the Android home UI to optimize for a Laptop usage, for productivity. MHL 3.0 Laptop Docks are also going to be released with faster input/output bandwidth from the phone, 4K, touch screen and more functionality. The idea is to bundle the MediaTek MT6582 Quad-core phone with this 11.6″ Laptop Dock for sub-$300, all inclusive, no contracts needed. MediaTek among other ARM Chip makers are working with MHL to optimize Smartphones and Laptop dock designs for MHL Laptop productivity.
ARM Seamless Smart Home IoT Connected Day demonstration
Posted by – June 23, 2014
ARM demonstrates what it will be like to have a Smart Home, some of how it’ll feel like to have many different things in your home connected through Internet of Things to your Smartphone.
Actions Semiconductor Headquarters Tour in Zhuhai China
Posted by – June 18, 2014
Tour at the headquarters of Actions Semiconductors in Zhuhai near Shenzhen in China includes a look at their wafer and package testing systems on location that enables them to manage production quality and peak production capacity, shipping around 10 million processors per month, Actions Semi is ramps up their output with their new Actions ATM7039 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 solution with a high level of integration on the SoC design with SGX544MP, also providing Actions ATM7021, ATM7029B providing SGX540 graphics with dual and quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 for the entry-level to mid-range tablet market.
Crave 6.95″ quad-core Smartphone and 3G 10.1″ octa-core Tablet
Posted by – June 17, 2014
Crave shows their latest range of smartphones and tablets. One of their 3G smartphones has a 6.95″ 1280×1000 resolution display and is powered by a MTK quad-core CPU. A 10.1″ tablet with MTK octa-core CPU and dual sim 3G built-in is also one of their new products. They are launching a new line of Intel-powered tablets and a kid’s line with different case colors and kid’s software Crave is based in Shenzhen, China and produce around 200k units per month.
Intelink tracking solutions for pets and phone camera lenses
Posted by – June 17, 2014
Intelink is a company that offers tracking solutions and phone camera micro lenses. They make GPS trackers for pets, prisoners and other The dog tracker costs $50 and offers around 8 hours of battery life. The location is updated every 5 minutes in the GPS modules on the trackers. A detachable phone camera lens that straps on different of devices costs $3.
Teamforce Endoscope Cameras
Posted by – June 17, 2014
Teamforce showing their Car Inspection Cameras, Video Borescope and Wireless Endoscope Cameras. They make many different device models. Some of them have LED lights for better view on dark places. The camera lens are so tiny and some of the devices have interchangeable camera module cables with different lengths. Some models have a SD card slot and can be connected with the computer using a USB cable. Some have a waterproof housing. The battery life is around 4 hours and the price range for these is from $120 to $130 retail price.
6 different RK3288 Tablets and Set-top-box ready from Pipo
Posted by – June 15, 2014
Pipo shows a whole range of RK3288 Tablets, they are ready to ship into mass production as soon as Rockchip is mass producing the RK3288 processor, which may be imminently. In this video, Pipo shows 6 designs of Tablets to be released with the RK3288 as well as one Set-top-box.
Noel Hurley, ARM Deputy General Manager, CPU Group
Posted by – June 10, 2014
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 with iPad Air display (thinner, lighter Retina 9.7″ tablets)
Posted by – June 8, 2014
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.
