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LG licenses ARM processor technology for home and mobile market push

Shane McGlaun, Apr 26th 2011 Discuss [8]

When it comes to the mobile market for tablets and smartphones, ARM is the biggest name on the block for mobile processors and GPUs. ARM has some competition from NVIDIA with the Tegra line, but ARM is certainly the more popular of the two. Intel has no significant presence in the Tablet and smartphone market thanks to the fact that its line of processors tend to consume too much power for lightweight portable devices. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 36 2010

Shane McGlaun, Sep 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Welcome to the latest edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Monday we found out that the Samsung Galaxy Tab would cost in the area of $200 to $400 depending on subsidies from wireless carriers. We can assume that the Galaxy Tab will cost on the higher end of that range. Later in the day on Monday the pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Germany surfaced via Amazon. The price of the Tab sans contract was listed at €799 or about $1,030 here in the States. Read The Full Story

ARM Cortex A15 “Eagle” detailed: 2.5GHz quadcore chip

Chris Davies, Sep 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

ARM has been muttering about their upcoming Eagle processor for some time, and now the chip has made its official debut. Confirmed as the ARM Cortex A15, it's a quad-core processor running at up to 2.5GHz and offers, ARM reckon, five times the performance of current generation smartphone chipsets. Read The Full Story

iPad Apple A4 SoC a single Cortex A8 chip?

Chris Davies, Mar 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Just what's lurking inside Apple's iPad? We know the company have developed their own SoC, the Apple A4, but so far there's plenty of mystery around what exactly that chipset entails. Over at ArsTechnica they reckon it's a single 1GHz Cortex A8 core and a PowerVR SGX GPU (the latter quietly confirmed last week) based on information from multiple sources. In fact, they go on to suggest, the magic of the Apple A4 SoC is not what it brings to the table, but what it leaves out. Read The Full Story

ARM Cortex-M4 processor launches

Shane McGlaun, Feb 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Processors from ARM end up in all sorts of products from smartphones to automobiles and a myriad of other devices. The company seems to have a processor for just about every need. The latest processor from ARM is the Cortex-M4 that has been unveiled for digital signal control markets. Read The Full Story

Direct Insight TRITON-TX51 squeezes Cortex A8 computer onto a SODIMM module

Chris Davies, Dec 4th 2009 Discuss [2]

Just how much can you squeeze onto a SODIMM-sized module? If you're Direct Insight, you can fit an entire 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 based computer onto there: the TRITON-TX51 uses Freescale's i.MX515 system-on-chip (SoC) as well as 128MB each of RAM and NAND flash memory, two SDIO/SD Card ports, an LCD touchscreen controller capable of driving displays at up to 1,280 x 768 resolution, plus PAL/NTSC out. Read The Full Story

Sony Ericsson Kurara packs PowerVR and Cortex A8

Chris Davies, Nov 19th 2009 Discuss [0]

Sony Ericsson's as-yet unannounced Kurara touchscreen smartphone has stayed still for long enough to get a non-blurry photo, and as you might have guessed it's mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin responsible for the shot. The Kurara was originally described as a more entry-level version of the Sony Ericsson Satio, but according to Mutazin there's actually a whole lot more to it than that: squeezed inside is an ARM Cortex A8 CPU complete with PowerVR GPU. Read The Full Story

ST-Ericsson U8500 Cortex-A9 smartphone platform debuts [Video]

Chris Davies, Nov 3rd 2009 Discuss [0]

The ST-Ericsson partnership between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson may only be young - the two firms founded the wireless semiconductor development project in February 2009 - but they're already showing off some interesting wares. The ST-Ericsson U8500 uses an ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore SMP dual-core processor paired with the ARM Mali-400 OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG1.1 GPU; together, they're capable of outputting 1080p HD video in a smartphone form-factor. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

ARM officially launches Cortex-A5 MPCore processor for embedded applications

Shane McGlaun, Oct 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

ARM makes processors that are found and a wide range of the gadgets and consumer electronics devices that we use. Today ARM has announced the official launch of its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor. ARM claims that the new processor is the smallest and lowest power ARM multicore processor that can deliver the Internet to a range of devices. Read The Full Story