Articles about ARM

Marvel is not necessary a known name by consumers in the IT industry but that doesn't mean it's not the producer of many of the chip found today inside smartphones and other mobile devices. They're the ones making the Snapdragon 1GHz CPUs found in the latest smartphones. They've announced a few months ago the Armada chipset, specially designed for slim tablets that can run mobile OSes like Android, Chrome OS, not desktop versions like Windows 7.Now Marvell even has a prototype up and running...

ARM CPUs are traditionally specially designed for mobile phones, smartphones, MIDs and such, but not for big screen computing. It seems that things are going to change with the Mali 200 chipset, that's on its way to compete with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform. The Mali 200 features graphics processing capabilities that can power huge HD displays and render objects in Open GL, can accept multi touch gestures like pinch and zoom and can compute physics interactions.We have below a video demo, filme...

You all know the big players when it comes to touch tablet PCs, but there are always small manufacturers that can deliver a desirable product which stands out somehow in front of the competition by either price or features. That's the case with the iMito IM7 slate type tablet. If you're wondering why iMito IM7 is cool just look at the pictures.It's iPad like but it's nothing like the iPad, even if it uses similar hardware. The screen is smaller at 7 inches, it supports 32 GB microSD cards an...

One of the main reasons we're hearing so much about touch tablet these days is not because users are interested in them but because the cost of manufacturing is low enough for powerful hardware to be put inside tablets to make them worthwhile. Marvel is one of the big manufacturers of ARM architecture CPUs, used in most of the smartphones we buy today.Recently they've presented during Future of Publishing Summit a working prototype of the Armada ARM architecture, a low cost and low power (co...

If past touch tablets were ridiculous expensive there is also the other side of the coin: too cheap. But how cheap? Well, the Hivision SpeedPad will retail for around 100$, or at least that's the projected price. If this news seems unbelievable for something to be worth your attention think again: it's got everything you need, 7 inch screen, Samsung ARM11 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 2GB internal storage, Android 1.6 OS, WiFi, support for external Bluetooth, 3G, GPS modules and 6 hours battery life,...

As expected, once Apple announced their iPad slate tablet Chinese manufacturers rushed to bring their own interpretation of this design to market. One of them even claimed Apple copied the iPad design from China, but that's another story. In the current story we're showing you early samples of a 7 inch tablet (800 x 480 pixels resolution) running Android OS.Just like the iPad, the core CPU is based on ARM architecture, in this case a 600 MHz RK2808 CPU. Unlike the iPad tough there's a front ...

As you might probably already know Symbian OS went fully open source a few days ago which means everyone can download the source code and modify it. As in Android's case this move proved successful, and the CEO of Symbian Foundation told the press he sees Symbian OS powering future tablet devices and even netbooks as many manufacturers showed interest in putting ARM architecture at work together with the already proven Symbian OS that has powered in 10 years since it launched more than 300 milli...