Freescale announced an heir to its i.MX51 family of ARM Cortex-A8 SoCs that boosts video decode performance to 1080p HD. The i.MX535 processor offers 720p video encode, up to 2GB of external memory, and improved peripheral support including new DDR3, SATA, and LVDS, and is compatible with Android, Linux, Windows Embedded CE, and Chromium....
ARM announced a new Mali graphics processing unit (GPU) and related interconnect IP, designed to work with its recently announced 2.5GHz Cortex-A15 MPCore processor design. The Mali-T604 delivers up to five times the performance of current Mali GPUs, and the CoreLink 400 interconnect offers high-speed cache sharing between the Cortex-A15 and the Mali-T604, says the company....
Amlogic has begun sampling a new system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, an ARM Mali-400 GPU, and Amlogic's proprietary HD video decoding engine. Targeting next-generation consumer electronics running Linux and Android 2.2, the AML8726-M supports full 1080p HD video capabilities and a range of connectivity options, says the company....
Freescale Semiconductor announced a system on chip (SoC) platform, combining a Linux-ready ARM Cortex-A5 application processor with a Cortex-M4 microcontroller intended to run a real-time operating system (RTOS).
Globalscale Technologies announced a $249, mini-PC hardware/software development kit based on the Marvell PXA510 -- a new ARMv7, 1GHz processor capable of 1080p video. The D2Plug clocks the PXA510 at 800MHz, and offers 1GB DDR3 RAM, 8GB flash, a full set of peripherals including 802.11n and Bluetooth 3.0, plus Ubuntu Linux and Android 2.2 support, says the company....
Next week at Computex, Via Technologies' WonderMedia Technologies subsidiary will demonstrate low-cost Android-based tablets based on the ARM9-based, 600MHz WonderMedia Prizm processor and related & SmartTouch& reference designs. The tablets will be manufactured by a variety of Chinese manufacturers, and sold for as low as $100 in the U.S. later this year, says Bloomberg....
After the success of Raspberry Pi, it seems mini PCs that run Linux has become a technology trend. Recently, 2 new mini Linux-enabled PCs have joined the party.
The Oval Elephant
This is the first time I have ever heard about Linaro Linux but this is the distro that Oval Elephant can run ( although the default OS will be Android).
Renesas announced a new member of its R-Car series of automotive systems on chip (SoCs). The R-Car H1 has four ARM Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1GHz, offering up to 11,650 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) performance, plus a Imagination Technologies' SGX-543-MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU) and an optional real-time multimedia engine (MME) based on Renesas' SH4A core....
BlueChip Technology announced an ARM Cortex-A8-based SBC (single board computer) aimed at embedded HMI (human machine interface) applications. Clocked at up to 720MHz, the RE2 offers support for a range of display kits and wireless expansion modules, plus standard features including Ethernet, USB, serial, and camera interfaces, says the company....
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