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CES 2012 Smart TV Round-Up

Chris Davies, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [1]

If ultrabooks and smartphones led the charge for your credit card in mobile gadgetry at CES 2012 this week, Smart TV did the same for living room scale tech. Google TV made its new strike on the market, having rallied for a second scuffle after its embarrassing first-gen flop, while homegrown smart TV systems did their level best to compete. All that was wrapped up with oversized LCD and plasma panels or in slick set-top boxes, with the promise of a world of video-on-demand, cloud-gaming and more just waiting at the end of your broadband pipe. Confusing times, perhaps, but not if you head on through to the SlashGear Smart TV round-up!

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Marvel Armada 1500 Google TV Hands on

Michael Crider, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google announced a major shift for its Google TV last week: a shift to the same ARM-based architecture that runs Android smartphones and tablets. The first partner to jump on board is chip maker Marvell. Their new Armada platform is an integrated ARM solution that it will deliver to OEM partners to include in set-top boxes and all-in-one Google TV televisions. They were showing off the new Armada system at CES, and we snuck in to get a look. Read The Full Story

Marvell’s SMILE Plug brings each classroom its own micro cloud

Rue Liu, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Marvell is rolling out a nifty new device called the SMILE Plug that allows teachers to create a "micro cloud" for their classrooms. The SMILE Plug is part of Marvell's "Classroom 3.0" initiative to revolutionize learning environments by making it simple to introduce technology and connectivity to classrooms around the world. Read The Full Story

CES Live

OLPC XO-3 Hands-on

Chris Burns, Jan 8th 2012 Discuss [1]

This week a tablet has been announced by OLPC called the XO-3, one made for the education base and made to be functional in so many environments it’ll make your head spin. Inside this device you’ll find a Marvell ARMADA PXA618 processor, a half-gig of RAM, and an 8-inch display at 1024 x 768 resolution, complete with a solar panel and the ability to work with a crank that’ll power it up, no sweat. At CES 2012 we’ve gotten the opportunity to take a peek at the device in an early iteration.

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OLPC XO-3 tablet revealed

Chris Davies, Jan 7th 2012 Discuss [2]

OLPC had already announced it was bringing along its XO-3 tablet to CES this coming week; now we know what the new education-focused slate will look like. Less slimline than the older concepts and nowhere near as space-age as the earlier dual-screen XO-2 renders, the new silicone-clad XO-3 does at least have the bonus of actually fitting inside the Marvell ARMADA PXA618 processor and half gig of RAM we're expecting. Read The Full Story

OLPC unveiling XO 3.0 tablet at CES 2012

Christen McGregor, Jan 7th 2012 Discuss [4]

The OLPC project are finally ready for the launch of their next XO Tablet. The XO 3.0, which has been in limbo for some time, will be shown off at CES next week. Marvell and OLPC have collaborated on previous models that are currently in the hands of over 2.4 million children in 42 countries. Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Edward McNierney stated the XO 3.0 is a "natural successor" for their current laptops. Read The Full Story

Samsung, Sony and Vizio bringing Google TVs to CES

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

Samsung, Sony and Vizio will have new Google TV hardware at CES next week, while the platform will make its long-awaited international debut in 2012, with Google confirming its key partners alongside LG's new smart TV kit. Meanwhile, Marvell's ARMADA 1500 chipset - integral to Google TV now that the search giant has jumped from x86 to ARM - will share the stage with chip company MediaTek, which will also be supplying SoCs to power Google TV set-top boxes. Read The Full Story

Panasonic Toughpad A1 and Toughpad B1 Android tablets revealed

Chris Burns, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

This week the folks at Panasonic have revealed one tablet and named a second, the first being the Toughpad A1, a 10.1-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet with a processor from no less than Marvell, the most elusive chipmaker of all. Of course Marvell has appeared in mobile devices before, but the last time we spoke about them in regards to a mobile device was in the Vizio Tablet, then before that was a Chinese smartphone and on the Chumby 8. Here we see Marvell sitting inside the tablet with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, this aside 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a microSD card slot for expansion up to 32GB more. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Vizio Tablet Review

Rue Liu, Aug 6th 2011 Discuss [60]

The Vizio Tablet is a pleasant surprise. Vizio is known more for affordable TVs and it has entered the tablet market with a similar value-oriented mindset, offering an 8-inch Android slate that delivers a well thought out consumer-centric experience along with unique features that even the most discriminating tablet enthusiasts can appreciate. It has its drawbacks, but if you’re budget-conscious and want to find your first tablet that’s the best bang for the buck, then do read on for our full review.

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BlackBerry PlayBook dumped Marvell for TI chip (and six month delay)?

Chris Davies, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's obviously chipset roundabout day, with word that Apple is ditching Samsung for the Apple A5 SoC in the iPad 2 followed by news that Texas Instruments scooped Marvell on the BlackBerry PlayBook processor six months into its RIM contract. According to TechEye's source at Marvell, the 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP4430 at the heart of the PlayBook was not RIM's first choice, and in fact the Canadian company had been working for over half a year with the chipset rival. Read The Full Story

Marvell and Asus team up for Chinese market TD-SCDMA smartphones

Shane McGlaun, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Marvell and Asus have announced that they have teamed up to offer smartphones for the Chinese market that run on the Chinese TD-SCDMA smartphone network using the Marvell PXA920 single-chip solution for the network. The PXA920 is the first single chip solution for the TD-SCDMA market. Read The Full Story

Featured

Why Multi-Cores in Mobility is Important

Ben Bajarin, Feb 16th 2011 Discuss [24]

If we take a look back at the past 30+ years of computing we can honestly say one technological advancement has constantly driven computing forward, that one thing is the microprocessor. Intel has led much of this computing revolution creating the world’s fastest microprocessors for computers. Today, bringing faster and more powerful microprocessors beyond computers and to mobile devices is the central focus of many. This time however Intel is not leading the charge.