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.
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‘Marvell’ Stories
BlackBerry PlayBook dumped Marvell for TI chip (and six month delay)?
Marvell and Asus team up for Chinese market TD-SCDMA smartphones
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.
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Why Multi-Cores in Mobility is Important
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.
ASUS Eee Note EA800 gets video unboxing; user-guide goes live
ASUS' Eee Note EA800 note-taking tablet is a curious device, opting for monochrome LCD instead of the usual frugal E Ink display, and positioned by the company as a resolutely niche, companion device rather than a converged do-anything slate. NetbookNews have snagged one of the first, managed to get ASUS to re-flash it with English firmware rather than Chinese, and then wasted no time before unboxing and demonstrating it on video.
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ASUS 12-inch Eee Note due Jan 2011; Eee Note EA800 priced sub-$293
ASUS' 8-inch Eee Note EA800 ereader/tablet hybrid will launch in December with a roughly $261 to $293 price tag in Taiwan, and be followed by a larger, 12-inch version hitting the market in January 2011. The 12-inch Eee Note - which will be officially announced next month, DigiTimes claims - will presumably also use a grayscale LCD display and have an active digitizer and camera for digital notetaking.
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The Daily Slash: November 23 2010
Oh you beast, Acer, you are such a beast. How dare you sillies release a slew of tablets right before a holiday when I'm going to get so much good food to eat? I can't believe it! But we'll still write about it. All of it, in a row. Then we've got a fancy review of the rough and ready Motorola Defy, a hands-on video of Marvell's Android tablet, a questioning article pondering designer 3D glasses, and another review on the Droid Pro! Android beats out Symbian in Asia, Skyfire 3.0 launches with Facebook Connect, and our big huge "A Week With" NOOKcolor continues with what might be the most important part of the whole device: reading! All this and MORE on The Daily Slash!
Also World War III may have just started in North and South Korea. No biggie.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 23 2010
Dunk it in! This morning over at Android Community (or was it late last night?) Vincent reviewed the Motorola Defy - a rugged piece of machinery that'll get wet and keep on clickin. There's some 3D modeling and studying of flying snakes on SlashGear, a hands on with the Marvell Android tablet, and a gaming computer employing cooled liquid to get it down to some sub-zero temps. And then, and then! Apple announces they're going to have some Black Friday sales at their stores. Holy holiday ham! What a strange day it's turning out to be here on SlashGear Morning Wrap-up!
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Marvell Android tablet hands-on [Video]
Marvell has been showing off its ARMADA 600-based Android tablet reference design, ahead of what the company says will be several manufacturer-branded products using the 1080p-capable chipset launched at CES 2011 early next year. The demo slate has a 10.1-inch 1280 x 720 capacitive touchscreen and runs Android 2.2 Froyo, and was shown simultaneously driving its own display and an external HDTV over HDMI.
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Marvell unveils 1.6GHz quad-core Armada XP processor for cloud computing
Marvell has unveiled a new processor that it is aiming at cloud computing and other applications. The new processor is called the Armada XP and it is the industry's first quad-core ARM processor for enterprise applications.
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OLPC gets $5.6m Marvell grant; XO-3 tablet not due until 2012
Marvell and the OLPC project have already announced they plan to work together on the upcoming XO-3 slate, and now money is changing hands too. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte has apparently confirmed to Xconomy that Marvell has pledged a $5.6m grant in return for using their chips in the new tablet.
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The Daily Slash: September 24th 2010
Welcome to the Friday edition of The Daily Slash. Hopefully your week went by well, and fast. The weekend is just about on us, but we have just one last bit to get through. Tonight, in our story from around the Web, we've got a robot that learns something not so good (but it's awesome). And then, follow us as we wrap up what's been going on around the R3 Media Network.
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Marvell unleashes tri-core Armada 628 processor for smartphones and tablets
Marvell is content to let the other companies on the smartphone and tablet processor market smile about their dual-core offerings as it tosses the world's first tri-core processor for smartphones and tablets into the spotlight. The new processor is called the Armada 628. The new processor is a SoC design that has three high-performance ARM cores and operates as the world's first commercially available heterogeneous, multi-core applications processor.
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