Intel is pushing its low power Atom processor line for
Android-powered devices at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing this
week. The company delivered a presentation called “Developing and Optimizing Android for Intel Atom Processor-based Mobile Devices.”

There aren’t a lot of surprises in the presentation, but Intel has
been working with Google to optimize Android to run on x86 hardware for
the past year or two. The latest Android emulator for Windows, Mac, and
Linux allows developers to emulate an x86 processor while testing apps.
Intel points out that most Android apps can already run on Atom
hardware without any modifications, but there are also tools available
to port apps written in “native code” so they can also support x86
architecture.
The open-source ARM Mali graphics driver, known as the the Lima project, has achieved a major milestone.
Since delivering the exclusive news of the Lima project as an open-source reverse-engineered ARM Mali graphics driver
for Linux back in January, there hasn't been too much else to report on
about this driver that's still early in its development life. This
driver is called Lima since it doesn't have the official blessing of ARM
Holdings and right now has been only running simple demos with Limare. The code is available and is running on the KDE Plasma Active Tablet as was talked about and shown at FOSDEM 2012.
Fortunately this morning I've heard some news from the Lima
developers about hitting a major milestone. Joining Luc Verhaegen, the
lead developer of the Lima project, have been Ben Brewer (another
employee of Codethink) and Connor Abbot have been the latest developers
joining the Belgian on this open-source driver project.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4NjQ
First great barrier to truly open android has fallen.


The chip is based on ARM Cortex TM-A9, 1GHz frequency and more powerful GUP.
Contrasted with other chips, MT6575 has higher cost performance, such
as the frequency is upgraded to 1GHz from 800MHz, the A8 core is
upgraded to A9 core, the memory is upgraded to 1G from 512M.
MTK does his best to provide cheaper chips.
The smart phone with MT6575 and naked eye 3D function only sells for
$255. But the 3D smart phone from LG sells for about $476. Another
MT6575 smart phone from Shenzhen ZOPO only sells for $175, which has
cheaper price and more powerful configurations than A750 from Lenovo.
http://micdigi.com/2012/04/mtk-has-released-the-smart-phone-tablet-chip—mt6575/
China-based white-box tablet PC makers have ramped up
their combined shipments to three million units a month recently, and
total shipments of tablet PCs by all makers are expected to top 50
million units in 2012, market research firm eMedia Asia has estimated.
In
Guangdong province alone, hundreds of small- and medium-size businesses
have entered the development and production of tablet PCs on an OEM,
ODM or OBM basis, according to industry sources.
With the availability of Android 4.0 platform, white-box
makers have rolled out tablets in 7-, 8-, 9.7- and 10.1-inch sizes with
specifications catered to customer's demand, said the sources, adding
that the models target markets in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and
Latin America.
The white-box makers are able to deliver
a 10.1-inch model, which runs on Android 4.0 and has a display
resolution of 1024 by 600 and 4GB built-in storage, at FOB prices of
about US$100-110, indicated the sources.
Shipments of tablet PCs by China-based makers totaled 14 million units in 2011, eMedia Asia said.
Hidden in a long news post about Samsung's success in the display market on the Oled Association's news page is this gem.
"SMD is planning to release a 4.6" Super AMOLED HD Plus with the 319
ppi for the Galaxy S3 Super Amoled plus in May of this year."
If you care to do some pixel density calculations,
you will find that a 720p or 1280 x 720 resolution results in exactly
319.26 ppi with a 4.6-inch display, further confirming that the SIII
will have a 720p resolution. Also, the "plus" following AMOLED in the
quote also has significance, as it signifies a display with a true RGB
subpixel layout. This comes instead of the Pentile matrix that
technically reduces the sharpness of a display, and was one of the only
complaints about the Galaxy Nexus's similar 4.65-inch panel.

-Pen. The Killer App.
Like
you I saw the commercials and went “big deal”. It’s a stylus. I grew
out of styli when WM6 went the way of the dinosaur. Yes, it is a stylus
but not the same $20 targus rubber nipple jobby you pick up from Best
Buy to use on your iPad. This one actually has some smarts – not to
mention accuracy (unlike the bubble ended pens), and no it doesn’t work on the iPad or the iPhone. A review I watched on YouTube summed up perfectly why the S-Pen is the killer app:
“You
cannot beat pen and paper. There are still people in this world who
carry pen and paper and the stylus is made for those people.”
More
importantly for me… I WAS one of those people. And while you may not be
able to beat pen and paper, you can come close and in some cases make
it look old school.
The
S-Pen (for me) without a doubt is the killer app. Sure it’s not an app
(S Memo is the app), but for all of you who were sitting there asking
what Samsung was thinking bringing back the stylus – they were thinking
of people like me who would rather markup a screenshot or jot down a
quick note than have to carry a moleskine everywhere they go.
Wrapping It All Up
I
started this process referring to the Note as a monster and wondering
if it was an iPhone Killer. I’m going to end it the same way. A short
while ago I ran into an issue with the Note, so I took it back to
AT&T and at the same time decided to switch back to the 4s. I was
concerned that the issue I had would continue, and honestly Android
didn’t hold much weight over iOS for me without the S-Pen so going to
the Skyrocket wasn’t a thought. I figured I would live with the smaller
screen size in hopes that Apple would increase it with the next device.
That
switch lasted less than an hour and I knew I had made a mistake going
back the 4s. Within 24 hours I was back at AT&T, paying the $35
restocking fee and going back to the Note. I love iOS, and if I could
get it on the Galaxy Note I would in a heartbeat, but not even iOS can
make up for the tiny screen size on the 4S or the functionality I’ve
found with the S-Pen. While the Galaxy Note is a monster, once you’ve
spent some time with the device it’s not as big and scary as it once
seemed. It turns out the Samsung Galaxy Note is an iPhone Killer, at
least for me. And that’s the only iPhone killer that really matters
isn’t it… the one that kills your iPhone.
http://isource.com/2012/04/07/review-samsung-galaxy-note-oversized-iphone-killer/
As long as Apple uses LCD displays, Samsung’s display market share
will be severely constrained. Apple has always claimed that the LCD
display in the retina format had higher pixel density and lower power
consumption than OLEDs. But
Samsung’s new AMOLEDs are as dense as the
retina displays and the use of phosphorescent green and doped transport
layers provide the OLEDs with similar power consumer in white dominated
images, the only place where OLEDs had used more power than LCDs.
But the major reasons why Apple did not use OLEDs are:
Samsung’s
restructuring of its display business is one of the tools the company
is using to combat this situation by demonstrating to their customers
that they are independent of Samsung Electronics, which produces phones,
tablets and TVs; Samsung is also increasing its capacity and their
other approach is to create OLED displays so compelling; high
performance, flexible and transparent,
that Apple will be forced to surrender and buy from Samsung. In the
interim, before the availability of these game changing displays, Apple
is unlikely to use OLEDs. So don’t put much stock in the variety of
reports that the iPhone 5 will have an OLED display. Won’t happen this
year!
http://www.oled-display.net/why-apples-new-iphone5-features-not-a-amoled-display/
Galaxy SIII has several advantages. 1. high efficiency/high resolution OLED. 2.Integrated LTE modem (samsung first, they could botch it, but if not, then Apple S5 is dead. huge battery live advantage) 3)Samsung everything (memory, secondary chips, etc price advantage) S5 basically is going to be the best of aging technology against quickly maturing next generation tech. highly integrated modem + OLED . 2012 will be the last big battle before apple dwindle into the back page of history since they don't invest on new technology whatsoever.
Samsung, HTC, japanese crew, huawei and ZTE will dominate the planets smartphone since they pour unbelievable amount of money into next generation tech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
oh yeah.... Dot.com bubble version 2.0 hereeee weeee comeeee......


At the leading-edge 28nm HPM (high performance for mobile) and 28nm HP
(high performance) process variants, ARM is launching new POPs for the
Cortex-A9 core as well as the first POPs for ARM’s newest Cortex-A7 and
Cortex-A15 processors. Since the Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 cores are used
in tandem as ARM’s big.LITTLE™ energy-efficient processing solution, the
addition of POPs for both cores assures a complete solution for
big.LITTLE implementations. ARM’s lead licensee for the Cortex-A15 POP
for TSMC 28nm HPM is progressing toward the tape out of its first chip
in the coming months.
At TSMC 40nm LP (low power), ARM’s existing POP offering for the
Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A9 processors is being augmented with the new
Cortex-A7 POP. In addition, working in concert with TSMC, ARM will offer
new POP variants supporting the latest high-speed options for TSMC 40nm
LP, so those process options can take full advantage of the POP
implementation benefits. ARM’s POPs for TSMC 40nm LP for Cortex-A5 (1.0
GHz) and Cortex-A9 (1.4 GHz) are shipping in production chips by ARM
partners in such applications as smart-TV, set-top box, mobile computing
and smart phones.
http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120416005583/en/arm/processor/technology
More cheap processors coming soon!! yay....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/apr/16/tablets-ipad-windows-google-android
in other news............... Guardian opportunity to blow smoke out of its clueless ass is closing fast...
PS guardian. Android is big in whitebox/unregistered. bigger than apple I dare say.
( I'll skip less obvious part such as ARM inc. significantly expanding microprocessor presence to feed android tablet...see post below.)
Here come the chinese clone army... I find this amusing . But it's Samsung product for Google. So not exactly the top of the line difficult to make industrial design. Try copying Sharp Aquos stuff if they can...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/samsung-knocks-nokia-off-the-top/
A few days ago it was reported that AUO is collaborating with Sony on OLED production ,
and today the Chinese Commercial Times reports that Sony will buy all
of AUO's AMOLED production capacity in the near term. Sony will use
AUO's 4.3" AMOLED panels in upcoming mobile phones. This contradicts earlier reports that HTC secured AUO's entire capacity.
AUO's original plan was to produce AMOLEDs in Q2 2011, but the company delayed this due to technical issues
(apparently the company couldn't get the yields of the vacuum
evaporation deposition of the organic layers high enough). It is
suggested that Sony's engineers are assisting AUO with those technical
issues.

While digging up the ground for the company's Fab 14 Phase 5
manufacturing complex, builders stumbled across pottery. The chip
company said it quickly called in authorities in Greater Tainan to help
them find out whether the pottery was an archaeological find and if
there was a possibility of more relics further under the ground.
The
company said that if the ground was found to house historical artifacts
it would move the construction to the Phase 6 base nearby. It added
that if there was another archaeological site under the Phase 6 base,
and it had planned bases for Phase 7 and 8 as back-ups.
According to Taiwan Economic News,
The Tainan Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage preliminarily
identified the pottery as a relic from the Niuchoutzu Culture period,
which lasted from 3,300 to 4,200 years ago.
http://news.techeye.net/business/ancient-pottery-delays-tsmcs-new-fab
Alright, who left their cookware there?... I want my cheap gadgets now.. these ancient civilizations definitely ought to keep their cookware out of the way.
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