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.
Charbax Cyborg: How I video-blog, Live and On-demand
Posted by – October 29, 2011
This is how I was walking around the ARM TechCon 2011, with the OMAP3530 Powered Kopin Golden-i Headmounted display (voice-controlled and with head-tracking) to monitor the live Ustream IRC chat, a USB webcam on my head streaming live video to Ustream through the Marvell Armada 618 Powered OLPC XO-1.75 in my bag (using another netbook when Marvell was showcasing the XO-1.75 at their booth), a T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot ($50/3GB/month/prepaid/$141-Mifi), and my nearly 4-year old Sanyo HD1000 (9mbitps 720p) with the external Sennheiser MKE400 shotgun microphone.
Source: ti.com
I also have the new higher quality JVC GC-PX10 but its 24/36mbitps 1080p50 recording bitrate is too high to upload on the relatively slow upload speed at this conference. At the San Francisco Downtown University Campus last weekend, the upload speed was 100mbitps so there I filmed all 16 videos at the OLPC Summit with that camera, for most of which you can even download the full original camera sample video file using Google Docs separately linked under each video.
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
ARM CTO Mike Muller Keynote
Posted by – October 28, 2011
ARM is launching the 64bit ARMv8 processor. This is the keynote video. I’ll link to the official video if they release it.
Freescale i.MX6 Quad Core at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 28, 2011
Freescale is showcasing the performance of their Quad Core ARM Cortex-A9 i.MX6 Quad processor.
Latest news from Texas Instruments at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Android
The OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor is taped out, they are about to show impressive samples soon, they will then be tweaking and optimizing it before release in commercial products within about a year. OMAP4 is being launched in the Motorola Razr and in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones, each more awesome than the other. Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 works awesomely on OMAP4, Honeycomb 3.2 tablets like the Archos 101 G9 are being released now, TI is also looking forward to power products such as Laptops that run Chrome OS, Ubuntu and Windows 8.
TSMC says 28nm is now in volume production
Posted by – October 27, 2011
TSMC plans to make all the way to as small as 7nm processors, they say they have plans to continue overtaking or matching Moore’s law for at least 10 more years. TSMC is the worlds largest independent ARM Processor foundry. Here’s a video about how TSMC makes the processors of the present and the future, they do them for many of the major ARM chip designers such as Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Qualcomm and others.
Marvell Armada PXA2128 processor in a tablet prototype
Posted by – October 27, 2011
This is the first time that Marvell is showing the PXA2128 in a workable tablet prototype form factor. This is the new high-end processor from Marvell with a 1.2Ghz Dual-core doing the intensive tasks and a slower lower power co-processor doing the basic background tasks, providing a solution that can peak at high performance and go back to low power mode automatically.
ARMv8 is 64bit, look for video interviews soon
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Category: ARM TechCon
ARM announced the ARM v8 for 64bit computing. I was streaming Mike Muller’s keynote on that and I will post the full keynote video later today. I’ll try to interview ARM representatives and journalists now about what that means, check back later for that. Let me know in the comments here which questions I should ask.
Microsemi Smart Fusion Custumizable SoC
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Rajiv Nema, product line manager, describes how Microsemi’s Smart Fusion works, to combined the ARM Cortex-M3 with FPGA to provide for customizable system on chip.
Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Mentor Graphics is one of the major EDA providers of the ARM industry. At their booth they are showing some impressive 3D graphical user interfaces that they say is easy and cheap to implement on ARM Powered devices to make them more appealing and to differentiate in the UI design, and they are also showing an auto-balancing lego robot built using Texas Instruments Sitara microcontrollers and the nucleus real-time software.
Ubuntu at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Category: Laptops, Servers, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, ARM TechCon, Ubuntu
They are showing Ubuntu 11.10 running on the Toshiba AC100, and Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition running on the OMAP4 Pandaboard.
