ARM Community: ARM Technology at its best at CES 2012 - ARM Community

This is my first visit to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas and it’s amazing to see just how big this show is. There’ve been lots of news releases coming out over the last few days and even during the show itself, with many introductions of new and sometimes updated products based on ARM technology and migrating to ARM technology. Stay tuned to ARM’s Smart Connected Devices blog and follow our ARMflix YouTube playlist to catch all of the hot gadgets and interviews at CES 2012.

My scoop today was getting my hands on two of the new products from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Galaxy Note. These new devices are really nice to get to grips with and show how technology is moving swiftly in these areas. Both products implement dual core processors and both incorporate Super AMOLED screen technology. The Tab 7.7 runs at 1.4Ghz , is just 7.99mm thick and weighs just 340g. The Note runs at 1.5 GHz. Check out these two videos that should give you a good feel for both of these products. You even get to see the face from behind the camera, which I was able to subtly improve with the S Pen!





I also met with a Karl Zhao, President and CEO of DigiLink who gave me more details on the newly announced BiggiFi software platform. He was able to tell me how this technology will revolutionise, for example, the way we want to play mobile games in our living room. I also met with Kip Kokinakis, CEO of Viewlink, who told us how they have incorporated the BiggiFi technology into the MyVu VizCom system, and of course it’s all based on and around ARM technology.


That’s all for today, make sure you come back later for more news from CES 2012!

Other gadget, ARM and ARM Partner News at CES 2012:

• ARM based NVIDIA Tegra 3 tablet running Windows 8 at Microsoft CES Keynote, and video.
• One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) unveils its 8-inch XO 3.0 Tablet at CES
• Freescale powers next-gen eReaders
• LG developed its own ARM-based chipset for its Google TVs
• CES 2012: Qualcomm shows Snapdragon S4 running Windows 8
• ASUS and Nvidia prepare £160 quad-core tablet running on Tegra 3 (quad core ARM Cortex-A9)
• Texas Instruments shows OMAP 4470 (dual core ARM Cortex-A9) running on a Windows 8 tablet
• Toshiba Excite X10 – thinnest, lightest tablet to date, running on dual core ARM Powered 1.2 GHz OMAP4430

Andy Frame, CPU Product Manager, ARM, is based in Cambridge and is fanatical about the success of the Cortex-M3 and how it is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for 32-bit MCU’s. Since joining ARM in 1995, Andy has had a variety of roles from Software Tools Technical Training though to Business Development, joining the CPU product management team about two years ago to look after Cortex-M3.