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The first few months of the year are a busy time for the electronics industry. Amid the bright neon lights of Las Vegas in January CES unveils to the world the latest in must-have consumer devices, from 3D TVs and ARM processor-powered tablets to the weird and wonderful gadgets we didn’t know we needed - but will all want next year.

Then in the balmy sunshine of fashionable Barcelona comes MWC in February, where the latest and greatest ARM Powered® smartphones with multicoloured touchscreen technology jostle with the latest gesture recognition technology for their place in the limelight.

Finally in March comes Embedded World in Nurnberg which is full to bursting with...well...tiny ...

Each year the great and the good of the mobile industry get together in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress to showcase what is going to be in our hands and pockets for the next few years. It has been many years since I last attended the event, with my last visit being 10 years ago when it was still 3GSM in Cannes. Then, there was as much talk about which yacht each company had as what was on show. I am glad to see the focus is back on what is on show. When you look back to Cannes in 2001 we were talking about what the impact would be of the SMS volume ramp on the networks and handsets, at that point there were only about 15 Billion texts being sent a month globally , and we were just starting to see colour displays appearing on mobile phones. In 2001 the mobile market was 430M units in 2010 there were 2,300M units shipped – how things have changed.

Fast forward 10 years and I am interested to see what will be the hot topics this year. Here are a few that I am going to keep an eye on during the event:

This year data is still hot but the scale and impact is beyond ...

CES this year is awash with innovative technology to power our connected lives. For years, technologists have talked about a future where our digital life is seamlessly integrated at home, at work, and on the go. In this future world, devices would work together to connect us to each other and to our content and high-performance processors (equivalent to super computers of the past) would power these new visionary devices. Well all I can say is this year at CES the future is now.

Are you part of the tablet craze yet? No - then you must meet the Motorola Xoom tablet!
I’m a tablet convert. If I wasn’t, CES 2011 would definitely convert me. For the first time I can explore the show and stay up to date with no laptop required staying connected with only a couple of 3G ...

ARM Technology Conference (Techcon) 2010 has been like no Techcon before! ARM, ARM Partners, and attendees feasted their eyes on endless innovations based on ARM technology, attended sessions, hands on labs, and listened to keynotes from the likes of Dr. Gary Patton (IBM), Ron Jacoby (Yahoo) video interview, and Eric Duprat (PayPal) and that’s only the start. The buzz continued when ARM announced the new Mali-T604 graphics processor, the Processor Optimization Pack ("POP") product line, ...

System Virtualization allows multiple OS and applications to run on my SoC platform without interfering with each other.

The computing and mobile worlds are converging. We’re all moving to a new paradigm where your personal, mobile ‘gadget of choice’ becomes your tool for working and playing in the online world. Whilst hardware helps with performance, cost and battery life, what your gadget can actually do is largely defined by software. Software is also the largest and fastest growing cost of bringing products to market.

Q. So how can I, the SoC designer, make more software available sooner on my platform?
A. Virtualization.

So how can I make more software available sooner on my platform? One easy way that is transferring from the computing world to the mobile world is system (CPU and IO) virtualisation. A conceptually simple idea; where the hardware is mapped to where the software expects it to be and not vice-versa. Now drivers and OS object files can run unmodified on a new hardware platform, and different OS for different worlds (think Android, WebOS, Symbian, etc.) can all run unmodified on the same hardware and even simultaneously!

Downloaded ‘apps’ have the potential to literally make or break my gadget. I want different work and home profiles, my employer wants security for company data, OEMs don’t want...

The recent launch of the ARM Cortex™-A15 processor has got the whole industry excited, generating more than 150 press article worldwide and tons of conversations on Twitter. Some commentators believe that the game-changing impact of the Cortex-A15 processor on the mobile industry will be similar to the effect of the Pentium processor on the PC market – some accolade!

At first glance there would appear to be little in common between the launch of the Cortex-A15 processor and the classic Humphrey Bogart film, Casablanca (If you’ve never seen the film, shame on you, buy the DVD now). However with a little consideration and imagination, a number of similarities become apparent.

Consider the following:

Rave reviews: “makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap” was a line from a review of the film in the ...

8GE2FF22NUER 坐了12个小时的飞机，从剑桥赶到深圳的我站在集成电路应用展（China IC EXPO）的展板前，试图找到ARM中国区总经理兼销售副总裁吴雄昂在高峰论坛上演讲的时间。一个观众来到我身旁，问我论坛演讲的议程安排。我指了指正在看的展板。他眯着眼睛看了半天，嘀咕了一句，怎么全是ARM阵营的。没错。要不是提前查过这个展会，我可能会以为这是ARM和合作伙伴联办的一个专题讨论会。10个演讲，有7个是ARM的客户或者合作伙伴。比如福州瑞芯微电子有限公司的市场总监陈峰先生，就在他的演讲中，把ARM和Android的结合应用以形象生动的方式让听众了解到ARM架构在开源操作系统上的优势。...

Well Computex 2010 Taipei turned out to be an exhilarating week for ARM and the ARM Community. From the launch of Linaro and the incredible devices our Partners had on display at the show, we could not be more anxious for what is to come in the future of technology. Below you will find all the information you could want and more about Computex 2010: ARM Computex Blogs, Press Highlights, and videos from Charbax.

ARM Computex Blogs:Diversity & innovation bring Computex a long way in 15 years
June 10, 2010 Collaboration at ARM and what it means for Linaro
June 3, 2010Computex: Windows Embedded Compact 7 Highlights Investment in ARM
June2, 2010...

We are mid week now at Computex 2010 and if you are attending the show, I would be surprised if you hadn’t already seen multiple ARM Powered Devices around the show floor. Everyone is talking about Tablets and what role they are expected to play in the market, but in other exciting news Qualcomm’s announced that they began shipping their third-generation ARM-based Snapdragon processor. Below you will find more news media on what’s happening at Computex around ARM and the ARM Community.

ARM Readies Dual Core CPU Onslaught With 1.2 GHz Snapdragon
By Jason Mick, Daily Tech, June 1, 2010
There's no secret why the ARM architecture has trounced the x86 architecture in the mobile arena. The lowest Intel mobile processors (utilizing the Atom architecture) can get is 0.65 W (800 MHz Silverthorne, Atom Z Series), while ARM processors are typically well below half a watt in power consumption.

Intel, ARM E...

Some people say, Computex this year in Taipei, Taiwan June 1-5th is going to be awesome. Last year we saw the ARM alliance announced the Laptop 2.0 concept device - smartbook with All-day use, Always On, Always Connected features and lots of OEM/ODM demonstrated their smartbook concepts in front of public and it was a great experience.

Computex is one of the largest computer trade shows in the world and it focuses on the both high and low end-products and components that make up the computers we use on a daily basis. It used to be the show for the local manufacturing firms to show off some of their latest technology to foreign buyers. Now Computex is one of the leading trade shows that caters to every aspect of the computer industry and also combines various consumer based products.

Besides the technology update from the ecosystem partners on Chrome OS and Flash support which demonstrating full internet browsing experiences on consumer-grade products, this year we expect more and more Android based devices at Computex ...

May 25th is notable for several reasons. Firstly it's the day before my birthday. Secondly, it's Noel Hurley's birthday. Noel, who is no longer with ARM having moved on to bigger and greater things, created the rather neat (in my opinion) Cortex-A / R / M profile naming scheme that we still use today. But mostly it's notable as International Towel Day. On Towel Day, Douglas Adams fans around the world carry a towel in memory of the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I proudly carried my towel today, but in truth mainly because I had a Pilates lesson this morning; only later did I realize how appropriate it was.

For who don't know, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC radio play, TV series, a book series and, in 2005 a Hollywood movie. For those that haven't yet seen the movie, I can give you some useful advice - DON'T. It was made after the...

Warren East, ARM CEO, was interviewed by Hexus TV on January 11th at CES 2010. Warren discussed how ARM’s low-power technology in mobile devices is now migrating into a broad range of consumer devices. You can find ARM in high-definition TVs, tablets, netbooks, etc….CES was just the start of the new innovations coming out that are based on ARM technology between now and Computex Taipei. Additionally, he discussed what 2010 will bring for ARM, highlighting the launch of next-generation ARM microprocessors, the shipping of more than 20 billion units (cumulative) and improvements in the ARM software ecosystem. It’s “the year of Cortex- A9 & multi-core low power processors” and it is sure to be a good one![/size][/font]

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Today started off with quite a few interesting, and personally energizing experiences for me. I was walking in the networking/home networking area and was delighted to see so many ARM based products on view there. Now, you may ask why would that be personally energizing? Well quite frankly, that’s my job, getting ARM products into Networking, storage and printing applications. And today, I got to see our products in action in those segments.

First stop Huawei booth. Huawei was showing some really exciting products. My personal favorite was the IP phone. This is a case study in convergence. It’s a Network photo frame, no it’s a media player, no it’s a SIP video phone.. Wait which is it? It’s all three! Not to sound too much like a late night TV infomercial pitch man but it was kind of cool.. I want one for home. They also had their IPTV/digital Video broadcast boxes on display.



I also saw some interesting technology applications for remote monitoring/Telemetrics. Modules that attach to your car, your electrical home meter and security cameras that allow you upload data to a central monitoring point. All these modules are based on ...

Friday, October 23rd marked the wrap up of the last day of ARM TechCon3, ending with many informative conference sessions and powerful discussions. Here are some links to the ARM Cortex-A5, Mali and Mali Developer Center, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, TI Stellaris, Xilinx and AMBA highlights over the three days on ARM and the ARM Community.

For additional news coverage please review these posts as well:
ARM TechCon3 Day 1 - Cortex-A5, Mali Developer Center and More
ARM TechCon3 - Community means everything!

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