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When made available for purchase, devices that pack ARM processors and run under Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system will have to offer features and capabilities similar to those available for x86/64 Windows 8.
Among these, we can count the inclusion of Office applications that have been designed specifica... |
10 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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One of the main focuses Microsoft has announced for the next flavor of its desktop client, Windows 8, is the availability of a consistent experience across all devices.
That also includes the development of applications for Windows on ARM, which is now to be the same as when it comes to building apps for x86 archit... |
10 February 2012
08:49 GMT |
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It looks like analysts really are enthusiastic about the chances of tablets, with Transparency having even issued an official announcement in which it makes predictions regarding the next four years.
Transparency Market Research believes that the level of annual tablet sales will grow by around 38.8 percent every y... |
10 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Windows 8, the first version of the desktop client to arrive with enhancements meant for mobile devices and with expanded support for touchscreens, will also be the first to be loaded on ARM architectures.
Dubbed WOA (Windows on ARM), the platform will offer the same features and capabilities that Windows 8 will o... |
10 February 2012
07:27 GMT |
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The user agent profile for the Samsung GT-P3100 has emerged, answering certain questions that have surely circulated all over the web ever since the rumors about an 11.6-Inch 2560 x 1600 tablet started. Some time after the info about that super tablet leaked, another piece of info came to the Internet's attent... |
9 February 2012
03:13 GMT |
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It appears that even the latest low-power CPUs and APUs released by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices haven't won the hearts of notebook makers. There are things afoot on the mobile consumer electronics market, things that don't paint a promising picture for AMD and Intel. According to Digitimes, neither ... |
8 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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AMD has said in the past, several times, that it is fully committed to x86, but this no longer seems to mean that a partnership with ARM is totally impossible.
Advanced Micro Devices has always been a rival to Intel on the market for central processing units based on the x86 architecture.
However, the ARM archite... |
6 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Intel has been lobbying for a strong position on the market of consumer electronics devices, especially portable ones, and the Atom Berryville chip line may be just the ticket it needs.
Intel may not have gotten to the point where it is ready to release the Berryville CPUs (central processing units), but informatio... |
6 February 2012
05:28 GMT |
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Processors licensor ARM Holdings, has recently disclosed the code names of its upcoming CPUs based on the company’s v8 architecture which are the first ARM cores to bring support for the 64-bit instruction set. ARM has chosen to go with a pair of classical names from the Greek mythology for its next-generation... |
2 February 2012
21:01 GMT |
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When made available on mobile devices later this year, Windows 8 will have a great advantage over rival solutions, namely it will build on the success Windows benefits from. ARM CEO Warren East believes that, and he might have an idea or two of what is happening in the mobile space, since most of the smartphones and... |
1 February 2012
14:11 GMT |
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According to PhoneArena, Samsung is preparing more than the still unannounced Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip.
In fact, the company is building something called the Exynos 5450, a quad-core platform operating at 2GHz (the cores themselves are Cortex-A15).
The report also mentions the Mali-658 as the graphics processing ... |
1 February 2012
11:29 GMT |
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system is bringing along support for ARM chipsets, among other great new features.
The platform is increasingly stable on ARM configurations, and Microsoft is quite happy with the way things evolve. In fact, the company is so content, that it plans on pushing the plat... |
30 January 2012
05:30 GMT |
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If anyone was still wondering whether or not tablets have secured a spot in the hearts of people from the United States, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Pew Internet and American Life Project conducted a survey, of sorts, in regards to the state of the tablet market before and after the recent winter ... |
23 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Looks like Quanta has scored manufacturing deals with Lenovo and Toshiba for the production of their tablets, which have ARM as a hardware platform and Windows 8 as the operating system.
As previously reported, sales will only begin at some point during the first quarter of 2013.
In the meantime, the companies are ... |
19 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Raspberry Pi, a miniature computer with an estimate cost of just $25 (€18.5) and that will most probably run a Linux distro or RISC OS, has entered mass production, according to one of its creators, Eben Upton. Raspberry Pi is being developed in UK and build in China and the first shipment should number in the... |
17 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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This year, we should see the first Windows 8 tablet PCs hitting the market, though it appears they won’t be cheap.
Recent reports suggest that they might be priced at over $600 (475 Euros) when made available. The most expensive of them will cost $900 (710 Euros).
A recent article on DigiTimes suggests tha... |
16 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 is the first version of Microsoft’s platform that brings along support for touchscreen displays and offers optimizations for tablet PCs. The platform will arrive on the market before the end of the year, and will be loaded on Intel-based devices. Next year, however, we should see Windows 8 loaded... |
16 January 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Windows 8 will arrive with support for far more processor types than its predecessors. Microsoft said that before, and came to CES 2012 in Las Vegas with its pockets full of devices capable of proving so.
The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show offered Microsoft the possibility to show some of the capabil... |
14 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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There used to be a time when $200 (157 Euro) tablets and $50 (39 Euro) gadgets were considered low-cost, but perception has begun to change with the rise of absurdly cheap personal computers. Rhombus Tech has just announced a product that will give the credit card-sized PC Raspberry Pi a run for its money. It isn... |
12 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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2012 is expected to bring to shelves the first Intel-based tablet PCs running under Windows 8, and some first steps in this direction have already been made. Intel brought to the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, a Windows 8 tablet that was powered by its 32nm Clover Trail processor and confirmed that ... |
12 January 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Among the products that were showcased at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night during Steve Ballmer’s keynote, we can count the Windows 8 operating system.
The platform, made official in September last year, during the BUILD conference, is expected to become commercially a... |
10 January 2012
10:09 GMT |
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The report about ASUS and its 3G Transformer Prime tablet held a tidbit of information some may not have been expecting, possibly because it conflicts with statements from another company. According to SlashGear, ASUS has 150 people working on a tablet running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. ... |
7 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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SmartDevices has climbed on the cheap tablet train and settled into its seat so well that one might consider its device the cheapest there is, for its kind.
The slate that the company has just revealed is called SmartQ Ten2 Plus T13 and relies on an ARM Cortex CPU.
More specifically, an ARM Cortex A9 chip with a ... |
3 January 2012
10:46 GMT |
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One would think that the Aakash tablet would be enough to fill the spot of a super-affordable tablet, but the Indian government is not of the same opinion.India just revealed a new slate that customers will start using at some point in the near future.Since it is not possible to suddenly provide Indian schools with ... |
27 December 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP at Linaro, announced last week that an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) ARM port of the OpenJDK 6.0 package for Ubuntu is available for download and testing. "Matthias has just landed in the Precise repositories an updated version of OpenJDK that comes with a newly updated Z... |
27 December 2011
06:19 GMT |
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NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers.
The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy efficient means of... |
21 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Anyone thinking that NVIDIA was going to settle for dominance on the Android tablet would be wrong, as the company is setting up, or has already set up, an alliance for the spreading of Tegra in a certain other field.Digitimes just made another on of its reports, one of those that may or may not be true.Considering ... |
19 December 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Point of View decided it was serious about its plans to enter the tablet market, so it put together the ProTab2 XXL, which might just be the cheapest tablet yet.
Granted, a tablet can be called the cheapest only as long as one disregards the paradox known as the HP TouchPad and the $35 Aakash.
To make things clea... |
13 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Coby could have made one tablet to test the waters and only then tried for more, but it looks like its first act is going to be big. Where other companies only launched one, or two, tablets at a time (for the most part), Coby will release five in early 2012. This might allow for some time, albeit short, to pass be... |
10 December 2011
04:17 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 9.0 RC3. According to the developers, this iteration should be the last release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 9.0. The final release builds should be available in a week or so."The third an... |
9 December 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Nvidia seems pretty confident that the high energy efficiency of the ARM architecture makes it a much better alternative for HPC computing than x86 and therefore is currently working on bringing this arch in the high-performance computing and server markets.In an interview with EETimes, Sumit Gupta, Director for High... |
8 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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ARM wants, and just might, get a foothold in the server market starting next year, as an omen of things to come, but Intel really doesn't seem amenable to the idea.
In fact, seeing that ARM PCs are an interesting idea to 40% of PC makers, and with ARM's server goal public knowledge, Intel acted.
In come... |
7 December 2011
09:32 GMT |
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It appears that NVIDIA is about to do great things on the market for Windows on ARM products, thanks to the advantages that only experience can provide. Intel may have managed to lock NVIDIA out of the PC chipset market, but the experience accumulated by the latter in that field is something it can't take away... |
6 December 2011
02:42 GMT |
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At Microsoft's direction, the three primary makers of ARM chipsets have each chosen one major partner and a minor one for development.
Microsoft is making the Windows 8 operating system, the one that will support the ARM architecture, so it has to work with the ones that actually make the chips.
That said, i... |
5 December 2011
07:37 GMT |
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When made available on the first tablet PCs packing ARM processors, Windows 8 might provide a completely different experience when compared to what is available today on x86 devices. One of the main differences would be the lack of a desktop mode on these devices, although nothing is officially confirmed on the ma... |
2 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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The ARM architecture may be a bit tricky to implement on the enterprise sector, but the consumer front is somewhat more manageable and, from what surveys suggest, system makers feel the same way.
Financial services firm Morgan Stanley, according to Focus Taiwan, recently conducted a survey on this very matter.
The... |
1 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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When released, Windows 8 might prove just the thing that Microsoft needed to enter more market areas, and partner companies tend to believe so. Featuring a touch user interface and other enhancements that make it fit for the mobile space, Windows 8 is seen as a valid option for those who are looking for a change in ... |
30 November 2011
12:35 GMT |
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Despite all the hype that has surrounded Windows 8 and ARM lately, the first notebooks and tablets running Microsoft’s upcoming operating system to be powered by system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices using ARM’s processing cores aren’t expected to come out until mid-2013.The platform itself is supposed to ... |
29 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 is meant to arrive on a wider range of devices than previous flavors of the platform, including the lightweight and highly mobile tablet PCs; yet, it seems that the client might not prove as successful as intended in this market segment.
Microsoft has already made all of the necessary preparations for ma... |
29 November 2011
10:26 GMT |
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The tablet market can be a harsh place for emerging devices, but that only spurns companies towards doing their best to prepare prospective buyers for the arrival of their inventions, in this case, the Acer Iconia Tab A200.
The Iconia Tab A200 is one of those few slates that will actually try to be accessible, pric... |
28 November 2011
05:59 GMT |
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It might not exactly be quite as small as the idea originally intended, but the Raspberry Pi will probably make jaws drop regardless. The idea used to be for a flash drive-sized computer, but the concept has since evolved, somewhat grown in size, but not by much. Besides, when someone sees something this small, t... |
25 November 2011
03:42 GMT |
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ARM and TSMC are moving quite fast to transition the former Cortex A15 processor core to the advanced 20nm production node and ARM has already established a process team in Taiwan that is expected to help with this move.The design centre was opened in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park and it features a team of eight... |
22 November 2011
05:13 GMT |
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ARM has been doing a lot of things lately, but the latest act on its part, or one of them, was the setting up of a new production facility.
ARM is said to have announced the opening of a new factory in Taiwan.
One thing the new design center will do is tighten the relationship with ARNM's Taiwan-based partne... |
18 November 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Strange things can happen in the technology world which can turn even the most bitter rivals into allies if they both share a similar goal.This is exactly what rumored to happen with Intel and ARM, as a Notebook Italia report suggest the former is interested in licensing the Mail T658 graphics core from ARM.The Santa... |
15 November 2011
18:51 GMT |
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The web is the place where some information surfaced on a future tablet that may or may not turn out to be the same as the Lenovo ThinkPad X1.
Engadget claims to have gotten an exclusive scoop at what will, eventually, be Lenovo's Kal-El-powered tablet.
This also seems to be a somewhat more informative leak ... |
14 November 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Many people may not have thought much of it before tablets set themselves loose, but it seems Intel and ARM are both, to some extent, reaching into the other's territory, the latter more than the former. There used to be a time when Intel and AMD, with their x86 CPUs, had full control of the consumer PC market... |
11 November 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Leading chip maker ARM has just announced the release of a new GPU for mobile devices, namely the Mali-T658, a silicone that promises far better performance capabilities that previous products from the company.
According to the company, due to a doubling in the number of GPU cores, the new chip is capable of provi... |
10 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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People thought Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet were cheap, but they may change their tune once they spot the Amiga Xpedio 7MTB. Sure, the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has a price of $200 (145 Euro) and the new Barnes and Noble Nook tablet sells for $249 (180 Euro), but those prices don&#... |
8 November 2011
09:48 GMT |
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ARM, the popular processor maker, has just announced the purchase of leading-edge IC design optimization software tools developer Prolific, Inc.
A privately-owned company based in Newark, California, Prolific's tools can significantly reduce development time, while also improving the performance of cell-based ... |
2 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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After yesterday's announcement of HP's Project Moonshot, a programme that will accelerate the use of ARM low-power CPUs in data centers, Canonical also announced today that it will be involved in the Moonshot project.HP's announcement includes the launch of the Redstone development platform which harne... |
2 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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