Articles Tagged “ARM”

Windows 8 Tablets to Cost Twice as Much as High-End Android Tablets ($600-$900)

by Lucian Armasu on Jan 16, 2012 4 Comments">4

I can’t say this comes as a completely surprise to me, but Digitimes reports that Intel-powered Windows 8 tablets will cost anywhere between $600 and $900. The reason this doesn’t come off as a surprise is because I knew x86 hardware, and especially Intel hardware, will add significantly to the cost of the tablets. Just look at what it has done to the original Google TV set top box, and also to the Chromebooks. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that all smart TV makers want to use ARM instead. Intel hardware is just much more expensive than ARM hardware, …

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ARM (Finally) Adopts the 64-Bit Architecture

by Lucian Armasu on Oct 27, 2011 1 Comments">1

When ARM announced Cortex A15 last year, they said Cortex A15 is a high-performance chip that can be used not only in smartphones and tablets, but also in notebooks, PC’s and even servers. It was very clear from the beginning that they intended to make ARM popular in the server market with this powerful chip. But one thing that was surprising and also a little disappointing was that they didn’t make this chip 64-bit. This means that any device can’t use more than 4 GB’s of RAM if the architecture only supports 32-bit. They did, however, add an extension for …

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HUGE: Samsung Exynos to Use big.Little Tech with Cortex A7/Cortex A15 in 2012

by Lucian Armasu on Oct 27, 2011 10 Comments">10

Now this is a piece of news you won’t forget very easily. A few days ago ARM announced that we are going to see the ultra-low-power Cortex A7 sometimes in 2013-2014, and paired up with their high-performance (but still reasonable power consumption) Cortex A15, in a big.Little configuration, to save power when doing normal tasks, or to achieve maximum performance when browsing or playing games. Imagine my surprise when I read that Samsung is going to use this in their Exynos chip as early as next year, way before anyone else. This week’s ARM TechCon 2001 John Kalkman, VP LSI, Samsung Electronics …

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Samsung Galaxy S II Is the Fastest Smartphone On the Market (Still) By Far

by Matthew Sabatini on Sep 25, 2011 9 Comments">9

With smartphone competition at an all-time high, more manufacturers than ever vying for the top spot to to make the fastest and best device(s) available. One of the newest high end devices around is the Samsung Galaxy S II. The phone packs a 1.2ghz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 (CPU), and an ARM Mali-400 (GPU). Recently, AnandTech put the device to the test. The results, well, are simply astonishing. Clocking in at a 42.5, second only to the iPad 2, is the Samsung Galaxy S II. Although second place may not seem so hot, the list in not only compiled of smartphones, …

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Nvidia’s Tegra 3 CPU Maybe Android’s Ace Against Apple’s A5

by Aerol Bibat on Jun 01, 2011 10 Comments">10

Right now, one of the main advantages that iOS products have over Android ones is the fact they’ve got the A5 backing them. Apple maybe focused on aesthetic design but they’re no slouch in the engineering department either. The current generation of Tegra 2′s ca’t even compare to the A5. Well, that’s about to change. Nvidia has already started showing off its Tegra 3 CPU, code-named Kal-el, and like the Kryptonian it’s named after, it looks to be super-strong, featuring four processing cores, twelve GeForce graphics units and stereoscopic 3D support. The tech demo for the Tegra 3’s capabilities is …

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IBM and ARM to Create World’s Smallest Mobile Processor

by Darcy LaCouvee on Feb 03, 2011 1 Comments">1

While IBM isn’t necessarily known as a maker of consumer electronics, it’s still the company behind some of the great tech you know and love. They are an incredible company, with significant experience and acumen in numerous sectors and industries. Many know that they are also the ones that brought the processing power to the PS3, in the form of the once state-of-the-art cell processor. A new collaborative effort between Big Blue and British chip designer ARM was announced very recently, with some exciting developments to soon follow. The market for tablets is growing by leaps and bounds, with leading …

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Bsquare still claim Flash is coming soon

by James Tromans on Jun 30, 2009 0 Comments">0

Back in March, we brought you an article detailing Bsquare’s intentions to port Adobe Flash to the Android operating system. Since then, things have been quite quiet from the Bsquare camp, and given Adobe’s recent announcements and of course the news from HTC showing the Hero running Flash, it seems like Bqaure had to make some form of announcement, regardless. Afterall, it is not clear that these Flash exploits are anything to do with them. Naturally, they have made positive noises, stating that an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for Android running on ARM-based devices is coming soon. In all honesty, …

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NVIDIA to run Windows CE and not Android on Tegra-based Smartbooks, for now

by James Tromans on Jun 19, 2009 0 Comments">0

NVIDIA have snuggled up tightly with Microsoft and expressed that they will be working on optimizing Windows CE for Tegra-based “smartbooks” (something between a smarphone and a netbook), as opposed to Android. According to an article over at ComputerWorld, Mike Rayfield from NVIDIA was quite clear and specific about the differences between Android and Windows Mobile, and has clearly taken ‘sides’ – at least for now. We say this because there is also news that NVIDIA is working with Google to accelerate Android when running on Tegra hardware. The downside being that it will take about a year before anything …

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Android based digital photo frame

by James Tromans on May 14, 2009 0 Comments">0

Japanese news site Techon is reporting that Fujitsu Software Technologies Ltd and Japanese firm Macnica Inc (developer and marketer of semiconductors and network devices) have come up with something called the “Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frame” based on Android. Why, I hear you ask? I think the real question is why not? This photo frame is an example of a digital home appliance that incorporates Android as an embedded platform, allowing this product to go on display from the 13th of May at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo (ESEC2009) in Tokyo. Indeed, Macnica are taking the device …

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Android on your desktop! Android ported to Beagleboard

by Hamish Robertson on Nov 20, 2008 1 Comments">1

Rupesh Gujare over at Beagleboard.org has managed to port the Android OS to the Beagleboard development computer. A Beagleboard is an impressive 3 by 3 inch mainboard with a fanless 600mhz ARM CPU, 128MB RAM, graphics chip, video out, headphone jacks, SD/MMS card slot and USB: essentially everything you need for a basic computer. Android is definitely working but we’re not sure how well just yet. You can watch a video of it after the jump. If you’re feeling hardcore, go buy a Beagleboard, download the Android file system and let us know how you do.

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