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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
Jon Masters is in charge of Red Hat Fedora on ARM, he’s at Linaro Connect to discuss Linux on ARM Bootloaders and other Linux on ARM issues.
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.
Paul McKenney talks about the ARM big.LITTLE Linux kernel work.
Noritsuna Imamura of OESF hacks a heart rate sensor for Android and Akira Tsukamoto reaches out to open source developers at Linaro in Japan.
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
Bernhard Rosenkränzer (bero on IRC) works on the Toolchain for Linaro Android. In this video, he talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about the work being done on the Linaro Android Toolchain.
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.
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.
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.
Here they are cranking out a few thousand Boxchip A13 and Boxchip A10 motherboards every day.
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.
This new Dual-core 9.7″ tablet sells now for around $200 in Shenzhen.
This company sells thousands of the Rockchip RK2918 9.7″ IPS tablet for around $150 each.
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.
This is the 5″ WVGA MT6575 phone, now selling out of Shenzhen for around $200. For now it’s a bit expensive (it should be closer to $150) perhaps because it’s not yet in full mass production.
This 7″ MiuMiu tablet design seems nice featuring the new AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 procesor with a Mali-400 GPU.
This is the new dual-core RK3066 9.7″ IPS tablet from http://yuandaocn.com. I previously filmed this review of the previous RK2918 based 5″ N5Zero from the same company.
This is the latest ARM platform from VIA, this time it’s ARM Cortex-A9, single-core up to 1.2Ghz with a Dual-core Mali-400 GPU.
This one does’t run ICS yet, but there may be an ICS firmware update for it somewhere online.
