Freescale dominates the e-ink e-reader market. Their next generation i.MX508 e-ink e-reader processor allows for more performance, faster refresh rates (limited by e-ink technology), lower cost (e-ink readers could be sold at half the price, $99 e-ink e-readers are now possible), most cool is Freescale works to provide Android support on these next generation e-ink e-readers. This is cool because Android support can provide cool useful apps such as news readers, rss readers, chrome to phone functionality and more.
Color e-ink powered by Freescale i.MX508
Posted by – January 7, 2011
The new Freescale i.MX508 can power color e-ink screen devices.
Dell Looking Glass 7″ Nvidia Tegra2 Tablet
Posted by – January 7, 2011
Here’s Dell’s new 7″ capacitive Android tablet powered by the Nvidia dual-core Tegra2 platform.
Mary-Lou Jepsen gives an update on Pixel Qi at CES 2011
Will it be in iPad2? Will it be in Kindle4? Of course she can’t say anything about it, but I really hope so. Was Pixel Qi delayed a bit because of the success of the iPad slowing down potential investments in Netbook screens? How did they manage financing their startup through the economic turmoils of the past couple of years? Pixel Qi introduces a 7″ model that is going to be mass manufactured by CPT after February, after the Chinese new year celebrations. The 10.1″ 16/9 and the 9.7″ 4:3 screens also are due to be mass manufactured soon.
Rohan Shravan gives an update on Notion Ink at CES 2011
CEO and founder of Notion Ink shows the Pixel Qi version of his Nvidia Tegra2 tablet. Explains what his company has been working on and documenting on http://notionink.wordpress.com/ the development of an awesome dual-mode dual-core Android tablet. This tablet is due to be shipping now soon to customers who can pre-order their tablets on http://notionink.com
Pixel Qi in the Genesi ARM Powered Laptop
This is the ultimate combination for the future of laptops, ARM Power and Pixel Qi display for 40-50 hours battery runtime. This Genesi laptop uses the Freescale i.MX51 processor.
Archos 101 Home Tablet, possibly cheapest 10″ capacitive ARM Cortex-A8 tablet
Rockchip RK29xx based 10.1″ capacitive Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet. It may cost something like $199 at retail, price is to be confirmed by Archos once this product is ready to be released. Release depends approximately on Rockchip being able to mass manufacture and deliver their new RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 high performance yet affordable processor.
RIM BlackBerry Playbook Tablet UI showcased
Posted by – January 7, 2011
It’s actually a pretty cool impressive user interface, well managing multi-tasking, navigating between multiple tasks, apps, tabs, features and managing things on a tablet screen. It may be powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP4430 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, to be confirmed (please post in the comments if you have a confirmation).
Rockchip presents RK2818 and RK29xx series Processors at CES 2011
Posted by – January 7, 2011
Rockchip is doing some awesome work to provide ARM Processor platforms highly integrated with stable turn key solution Android software at very cost effective prices, thus they are powering many of the cheap affordable and usable Android tablets and other devices coming up including Laptops, Set-top-boxes, Mobile Phones and more.
Freescale i.MX51 Powered Tablets at CES 2011
Posted by – January 7, 2011
Robert Thompson, Director of Smart Mobile Devices at Freescale, gives us a 14 minute presentation of the dozens of Freescale Powered Android tablet form factors and devices that are on the market or that are going to be on the market soon.
General Imaging GE PJ1, pico-projector in a camera
Posted by – January 7, 2011
In the future, every camera, every phone, everything will integrate built-in projectors. Basically to make a big screen on any wall or table out of any pocketable device. It uses the new nHD pico projector technology by Texas Instruments at 640×360 resolution and around 15 lumen output.
Seco srl presents Pico Projector in a Lamp concept
Posted by – January 7, 2011
Check this out cause it’s actually awesome. This is a concept device, integrating a Texas Instruments OMAP3530 processor platform running Android, WiFi, Bluetooth, into a lamp that takes power from any lamp. It’s a lamp, but it projects Android and apps to the wall, any video. Find more information about Seco at http://seco.it
Seco Q7 OMAP4 dual-core module
Posted by – January 7, 2011
This is the first OMAP4 dual-core module for the embedded form factor market for theindustrial environment for the mobile and automotive markets. Thanks to Seco’s pression on the q7 consortium, people can now swap the x86 module for an ARM architecture, it works for Windows, Android and Linux OS. Find more information at http://www.seco.it/
Freescale Powered MyFord Touch
Freescale is powering the Ford Sync system called MyFord Touch, there is an i.MX51 processor in there and Windows CE based user interfaces and features providing in-car system for the Ford cars. This type of ARM Powered solution for the car, voice activated, is becoming a large part of what allows car makers to differentiate their cars in the market.
Motorola Atrix 4G
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Here’s an interview with the Product manager on Motorola Atrix 4G, Seang Chau, where he talks about how it was designed and how it works. This may be the coolest ARM Powered device ever shown at CES, Motorola promotes this as a full Laptop replacement! Yeah!
Microsoft shows full Windows for ARM Powered devices
Check this out. This is the full Windows on ARM platforms developed by Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and Nvidia. Microsoft demonstrates a recompiled version of Microsoft Office for ARM, some other apps, talks about how it will support all the apps on ARM, this is awesome.
Honeycomb user interface demo
I’m not really supposed to try to film this, but here it is. I try to click around in this pre-release Honeycomb Motorola Xoom tablet pre-production prototype instead of only letting it play the animated prepared UI videos from the gallery. Google is doing some awesome work in making software optimized for tablets. Like Archos has been doing it, they decided there’s no need for hardware Android buttons on Tablets. Other aspects of this UI suggests UI design that’s really being designed for high resolution touch screen devices.
Nvidia Project Denver
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces Nvidia Project Denver. Nvidia is investing big time in ARM Processor development. As Tegra1 and Tegra2 have already been quite huge contribution to the ARM ecosystem, now Nvidia is announcing it’s next big project called Project Denver, to build ARM Processors not only for Mobile Computing applications, but also for full desktop computing, cloud computing servers and even for super computers.
Related articles
- Project Denver: Nvidia Is Finally Making Its Own Processor [Nvidia] (gizmodo.com)
- Nvidia unveils ‘Denver,’ its first CPU for PCs (infoworld.com)
- Project Denver puts Windows on Nvidia chips (ces.cnet.com)
- NVIDIA chief confirms Windows coming to ARM chips (electronista.com)
- NVIDIA’s “Project Denver” to Build Custom CPU Cores for Personal Computers & Supercomputers (slashgear.com)
Nvidia’s Mike Rayfield talks Project Denver, Tegra2 devices
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Do you wonder what’s the status of software on the Toshiba AC100, what delayed Tegra2 devices, what to expect from Nvidia Project Denver? Mike Rayfield, General Product Manager of the mobile business unit at Nvidia provides some informations on these things and more. I’ll look for much more informations at the manufacturers booths in the coming days.
Samsung Infuse 4G at CES 2011
Posted by – January 6, 2011
For now they don’t want to show the new Super Amoled Plus screen yet. And they don’t say on this video if this uses a new Honeycomb or the ARM Cortex-A9 Orion processor already.
