Archos Gen9 Cheap Tablet

For more than 10 years already, Archos has been building portable media players. In recent years, they have been building low cost Android tablet options. According to some news, the company will soon be venturing to new Android tablet options. First, there is the Archos 9. It will utilize the ARM Cortex A9 Chips. By [...]

Efika MX Smartbook from Genesi

The term smart book has always been overused and it seems it either has very complex meaning or no specific meaning at all. What it promises is a lightweight device for internet browsing that is quite cheap. Genesi created the smartbook just for that cause. This is an unknown company so we yet have to [...]

Review: Arnova A80KSC from Archos

Russia will be the first one to experience the Archos Arnova which is an 8-inch Android Tablet. The possibilities with other countries are present. We have reported on Arnova tablet last week. Arnova was geared to be a cheap media device and tablet. It does not sport the high end or top of the line [...]

20 new tablets with Qualcomm chips

Qualcomm, a popular chip maker has recently revealed its earnings for the past quarter and it has been doing really well, being able to pull its revenue compared to how the company fared last year at the same quarter. Qualcomm reported $3.35 billion in last quarter ($1.17 billion profit) of 2010 which is some 25 [...]

Brazos Chips from AMD for tablet use

AMD has released a new set of chips called Brazos that include the low power Ontario and the Zacate. The company said that they are not stopping any company to use these low power chips for their tablets, these new chip sets were actually designed to work on low power netbooks as well as laptops. [...]

Leaked! Tegra 2 3D in spring 2011

Time sure flies in the tech world. We have yet to enjoy the Tegra 2 chips and NVIDIA is already preparing for something new, a Tegra 2.5 update. This new chip is a dual core chip with 1.2GHz and is marketed to be capable of handling 3D on mobile. This was leaked as the T25 [...]

A Guide to the world of Android Tablets

Google’s Android OS started out in smart phones but it is now extending its reach in tablet formats. Right now, you can find a variety of new tablets with a great diversity in prices created by hot brands and newer ones across the world. With this great diversity, we find ourselves in bit of a [...]

Intel purchases Infineon Wireless

German-based company, Infineon has been bought by the chip giant, Intel that will allow the latter to introduce their x86-based processors (Atom?) into the smartphone market. However, we are still unsure if ARM architectural license has been included in the deal.

ARM processors to power servers?

According to an article published on eetimes, ARM is busy preparing an ARM processor for use in servers. Here is a quote from the article

We are on par [with the x86] in performance today and have a detailed road map that will really push performance up. At least one partner is working on a port of a server version Microsoft Windows to ARM, and has access to some of the low level code needed for that job. That is a large undertaking.

Efficiency of ARM processor plus power of x86? Sounds interesting

ARM says netbooks will capture 90-percent of PC market

According to the recent reports, ARM’s CEO Warren East says while netbooks currently account for only 10% of PC market, things can totally go opposite in the coming years. He is positive that netbooks are bound to get even more popular and would capture even 90% of the total PC market.

He also thinks that this would also benefit ARM in the long run. While we are doubtful about netbooks capturing 90% of PC market, we can, without a doubt, agree with Warren that ARM is going to make huge profits for sure with the upcoming smartbooks (Lenovo Skylight and Apple iPad).