Ramos W10 budget gaming tablet

Ramos W10 is a 7 inch budget gaming tablet that runs on Android 2.2. It was showcased at Computex 2011 last month. The resolution of this touch screen is 800 x 480 and Mali-400 GPU which supports OpenGL ES 2.0. This GPU allows Ramox W10 to handle graphics well. The processor is ARM Cortex A9, [...]

Samsung Orion ARM Processor

Samsung Electronics has launched a new processor for MIDs, Tablets and Smartphones, codenamed Orion. This processor has been created based on the Samsung’s 45nm process technology. It packs a pair of ARM Cortex A9 1GHz cores, where each core boasts 32kb data cache and 32KB instruction cache. It also includes 1MB L2 cache for better CPU processing performance.

The Orion is good enough to handle full screen HD video playback and high speed 3D action games, thanks to the GPU included with the chip that delivers up to 5x 3D graphics performance compared to the previous generation of Samsung processors. The processor can support up to two on-device display screen and at the same time, can drive a third external display such as TV/monitor via an on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface.

The processor will hit mass production in H1 2011

Hannspree Tablet

Hannspree also wants to eat a piece of tablet market and will be debuting its 10-inch tablet in the month of November this year. This tablet will run the latest Google Android 2.2 OS on a ARM Cortex A9 1GHz processor. For storage, you will get whopping 16GB flash storage that can easily be expanded by microSD slot. 

Outfitted with a 10.1-inch display packing 1024×600 pixels (WSVGA), it will be fully capable of playing 1080p videos, thanks to Nvidia Tegra II chipset and since it runs Android 2.2, you will also be able to enjoy Flash inside the web-browser. It will cost you 400 Euros, which is pretty reasonable for a tablet this strong.

Samsung preparing ARM Cortex A9 dual core CPUs – we smell Smartbooks!

According to a document leaked by ARMnews, Samsung is preparing ARM Cortex A8, A9, single, dual and quad core processors that will be released in H2 2010 and 2011. In a slide from the document, it is clearly stated that these processor are meant to be used in netbooks.

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Broadcom to develop an ARM-cortex A9 CPU

Broadcom, popular maker of computer chips has announced recently that they are working to make their own ARM cortex A9 processor. Right now, they have not said where this chip will be used, but we expect it to be used in Smartbooks: netbooks based on non-x86 platform.

A single core Cortex A9 is capable of delivering twice the performance of current crop of smartphones. When talked into the context of smartbooks, it can have upto 4 cores(!), making multitasking smooth and enjoyable experience

2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Chip coming to the Linux device near you

Last Wednesday, ARM Ltd announced that their 2GHz version of the Cortex-A9 microprocesor. This 2GHz ARM CPU is aimed at smartbooks and smartphones. The most exciting point to note is that this powerful CPU consumes just 0.5w even while running at its peak.

ARM actually wanted its speedy cortex CPU to battle against the Intel Atom CPU which are used in most of the netbooks. Sadly, Microsoft has no plans to port it to the ARM platform. Call it fortunate or unfortunate, you will be stucked with Linux powered smartbooks. Do not get us wrong. We love Linux, especially Ubuntu, but majority of the people find Windows OS more gratifying.

I feel acutely that Microsoft should consider porting Windows 7 (or atleast Windows XP) to ARM architecture. This would enable manufactures to make phones and ARM-based MIDs run desktop operating systems like Windows XP/7 or even Mac OS X.