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ARM at Computex 2009 with Qualcomm: Part 1 - Video
Rob Coombs of ARM talks to Qualcomm at Computex 2009 who are displaying a new category of Smart Mobile Device

ARM at Computex 2009 with Qualcomm Part 2 - Video
Rob Coombs and Rock Yang of ARM talk to Qualcomm at Computex 2009. Qualcomm are displaying a new category of Smart Mobile Device

ARM at Computex 2009 with Fujitsu - Video
Rob Coombs of ARM talks to Fujitsu about WiMAX

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I was last at Computex a couple of years ago. From a semiconductor perspective it then seemed to be all about Intel and AMD, but it has been very different this time. There are a host of ARM semiconductor partners showing off their highly integrated ARM based System on Chip (SOC) devices. Now, some of our marketing folks will tell you I'm a hard person to please. Sorry chaps, I do confess I have been a bit negative over the last 6 months - perhaps focusing more on what the ARM computing products don't do, rather than what they can do. Well, I've spent a couple of days in Taiwan and I'm impressed. The ARM Partners who have targeted this new space are delivering.

There has been a lot of ODM activity too. The efforts of the ODMs, in combination with the ARM software and silicon Partners, have created a great collection of real products. These products look good, feel good and... they actually work, connecting me to the ARM website faster over 3G in Taiwan than I can often get over Ethernet on my PC in the ARM Cambridge office.

So well done, and thank you to those ARM partners, ODMs and their software partners who have collectively made this happen.

My speech on Monday was about the mobile Internet becoming a reality to the extent that it becomes so much a part of our everyday lives that we can stop talking about it. We do have a way to go before my "favourite gadget" fountain pen doubles up as a voice-activated connec...