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It’s certainly been an action packed first quarter for ARM and our ARM® Mali™ Ecosystem Partners, and we hope you’ve had a chance to catch up with us at one or more of the recent string of events. If not, there are many more opportunities coming up! Here is a wrap up of the event highlights from our perspective.

Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Las Vegas
We kicked off with the annual wake up from the Christmas holidays at CES in Las Vegas, where ARM Powered® products filled the show floor and members of the ARM team clocked up many miles of walking from hall to hall and from meeting to meeting – a tiring but hugely productive few days. Check out for yourself the wide range of products that were on show by viewing our CES Playlist on the ARMFlix YouTube channel. There is also a range of CES blogs, all wrapped up in Andy Frame’s day 4 ...

If you attended CES this year you must have noticed that it was all about Smart TV and even if you didn’t attend you must have heard or read about it everywhere. Yes, the Smart TV has finally arrived.

Quoting the late Steve Jobs in his memorable speech at Stanford University “you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards”, at CES this year it was clear to me how the dots connect to the Smart TV. It all started when TVs went digital. Then the race to HD and 3D pushed the resolutions and highlighted the need to increase the computing capabilities. Bringing Internet connectivity at last year’s CES was a major step but it wasn’t until full application processors made their way into the TV that it has finally become “smart”. This year at CES the Smart TV was everywhere.

So what is making the new application processors so special that the Smart TVs they enable took over the show? Processors made their way into TVs a while back but the main difference with the application processors inside ARM Powered® Smart TVs is that they have the powerful ARM ...