Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Taking next-gen augmented reality for an ARM-powered walk around the block]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/03/next-gen-augmented-reality-from-arm/http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/03/next-gen-augmented-reality-from-arm/http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/03/next-gen-augmented-reality-from-arm/#comments We know what you're thinking, because we initially thought it too, but this isn't your average AR. With the help of chip designer ARM, a number of developers are building a new type of augmented reality that is altogether more powerful than the usual sprite-on-a-surface routine. Instead of requiring well-lit, artificial and often indoor surfaces and markers, this new technology sucks every ounce of juice from a smartphone's processor in order to recognize, track and augment real-world 3D objects like people and buildings. It's still at an early stage and far from being practical, but the exclusive videos after the break ought to prove that this approach has potential. In fact, it's probably what augmented reality ought to have been in the first place. Read on for more.

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Taking next-gen augmented reality for an ARM-powered walk around the block originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Samsung chip has two of everything: two cores, 2GHz, 2560 x 1600 graphics originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, and there are games. The company is expanding its already voluminous Snapdragon GamePack to include titles like The Ball, Fight Game Heroes, and Galaga Special Edition -- casual and console games aimed at showcasing its chips' abilities. The list also includes the introduction of Snapdragon GameCommand, an app aimed at showcasing those showcasing apps, making them easier to find and offering up gaming news. GameCommand will be hitting early next year. The new games will be available through the Android Market for handsets packing Snapdragon processors. Lots of press info after the break.

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Qualcomm announces a slew of new Snapdragon processors, upgrades, mobile games originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA says Tegra 3 is a 'PC-class CPU,' has screenshots to prove it originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the short-term, meanwhile, NVIDIA is busy developing its quad-core mobile processors -- which, according to the exec, should appear in tablets during the third or fourth quarter of this year (quad-core smartphones, however, may be further down the road). Huang also sees room to develop wireless-enabled, Snapdragon-like processors, thanks to NVIDIA's recent acquisition of Icera, but he hasn't given up on GPUs, either, predicting that demand for graphics performance will remain stable. The loquacious CEO went on to divine that Windows 8 will support apps designed for Windows 7 (implying, perhaps, that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will play a major role in future cloud-based developments), while contending that smaller, "clamshell devices" with keyboards will ultimately win out of over the Ultrabook strategy that Intel has been pursuing. For the moment, though, Huang seems pretty comfortable with NVIDIA's position in the mobile processing market, citing only Qualcomm as primary competition. "We're the only people seriously on the dance floor with Qualcomm," he argued, adding that companies without a solid mobile strategy are "in deep turd." You can find more of Huang's insights at the source links below.

NVIDIA CEO sees major growth in mobile processing, quad-core tablets coming this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>androidandroid tabletAndroidTabletappbusinesschipclamshellearningsfy-2013GPUgraphicsgraphics processorGraphicsProcessorgrowthiceraintelJen-Hsun HuangJen-hsunHuangmarketmicrosoftmobilemobile processorMobileProcessormoneynvidiaprocessorquad corequad-coreQuadCorequalcommrevenuesilverlightsmartphonetablettegra 2Tegra2ultrabookwindowswindows 7windows 8Windows7Windows8Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:49:00 EST<![CDATA[i.MX 6 quad-core reference board flexes processing muscle at Freescale Technology Forum]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/i-mx-6-quad-core-reference-board-flexes-processing-muscle-at-fre/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/i-mx-6-quad-core-reference-board-flexes-processing-muscle-at-fre/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/i-mx-6-quad-core-reference-board-flexes-processing-muscle-at-fre/#commentsi.MX 6 quad-core reference board flexes processing muscle at Freescale Technology ForumFreescale answered our power prayers with the introduction of its i.MX 6 processor suite at CES earlier this year, but left us longing for a demo. Well, the outfit's just given us all our first glimpse at the healthiest processing muscle in the bunch, the quad-core i.MX 6. Sporting four ARM Cortex A9 cores and a 64-bit memory bus, the reference design board can be seen running a 1080p video demo and Quake simultaneously -- and it didn't even break a sweat. Freescale says it's currently working with Google on making the processor Honeycomb-compatible, but don't get too excited; i.MX 6 won't make it into real-deal machines until 2012. If you've got an extra 20 minutes to spare, hop on past the break for a rather lengthy video of the processor at work.

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i.MX 6 quad-core reference board flexes processing muscle at Freescale Technology Forum originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>A9ARMARM A9ARM Cortex A9arm processorArmA9ArmCortexA9ArmProcessorchipdemoFreescalefreescale technology forumFreescaleTechnologyForumi.MX 6i.MX6iMX 6Imx6mobile processorMobileProcessorprocessorquad corequad core processorquad-coreQuadCoreQuadCoreProcessorreference designReferenceDesignvideoWed, 22 Jun 2011 04:06:00 EST<![CDATA[ARM hopes to strengthen grip on mobile PCs, take 50 percent of the market by 2015]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/arm-hopes-to-strengthen-grip-on-mobile-pcs-take-50-per-cent-of/http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/arm-hopes-to-strengthen-grip-on-mobile-pcs-take-50-per-cent-of/http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/arm-hopes-to-strengthen-grip-on-mobile-pcs-take-50-per-cent-of/#comments We've already heard rumors that chip designer ARM has been trying to get its wares into the Macbook Air. While we can't add anything to that particular story, we do have further evidence that ARM is going beyond smartphones and tablets in order to target bigger form factors. The company's president, Tudor Brown, has just appeared at Computex to declare that ARM wants to conquer the "mobile PC market", where the company currently only has a 10 percent share. He's aiming for 15 percent by the end of this year, and an Intel-provoking 50 percent by 2015. "Mobile PC" is a pretty ambiguous category, but we think it's safe to assume the focus is on low- and mid-power netbooks and ultraportables. Such devices could potentially run off ARM's forthcoming multi-core chips -- like perhaps the quad-core beast inside NVIDIA's mind-blowing Kal-El processor, or the more distant Cortex-A15. It's hard to imagine these tablet-centric chips ever competing with Intel's top performers, but four years is a mighty long time in this business.

ARM hopes to strengthen grip on mobile PCs, take 50 percent of the market by 2015 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>basebandbaseband processorBasebandProcessoriceramobile processorMobileProcessornvidiasystem on a chipSystemOnAChiptegrawireless dataWirelessDataMon, 09 May 2011 10:14:00 EST<![CDATA[IBM forms new partnership with ARM in hopes of developing ludicrously small chip processing technology]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/ibm-forms-new-partnership-with-arm-in-hopes-of-developing-ludicr/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/ibm-forms-new-partnership-with-arm-in-hopes-of-developing-ludicr/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/ibm-forms-new-partnership-with-arm-in-hopes-of-developing-ludicr/#comments We've seen IBM and ARM team up before, but this week both companies announced a new joint initiative to develop 14nm chip processing technology. That's significantly smaller than the 20nm SoC technology ARM hopes to create in partnership with TSMC, and makes the company's previous work with IBM on 32nm semiconductors look like a cake walk. The potential benefits, though, are faster processors that require less power, and feature lower per unit manufacturing costs Who knows if or when we'll see tangible results from the tag team, but if IBM's Watson can beat Jeopardy champions, further reducing the average size of a feature that can be created on a chip should be elementary, right? To read over the full announcement check out the press release after the break.

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IBM forms new partnership with ARM in hopes of developing ludicrously small chip processing technology originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Freescale announces i.MX 6 processor series, wants quad cores in your smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's been a long time since ARM last bragged about its Mali line of high-end mobile processors, telling us back in March how the 200 and 400 models were going to bring high-def 3D performance to tiny gadgets. Finally we have some videos to go with the hype, two demonstrations showing the phone's admittedly impressive polygon-shuffling tech. The demos feature the lower-end Mali-200 rendering everything at 720p, playing some simple videos and also handling a rather complex 3D contact navigation system that looks both flashy and painful to use. ARM says "play a game of bowling like never before and you'll get hooked by the magic of Mali." Click on through already, and prepare to be hooked.

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Plenty of modern cell phones have HD-quality screens on them, but few can manage any sort of high-definition video content at a respectable frame rate. That's set to change with the release of the Renesas SH7370, a chip we first got wind of back in December with its promise to offer 1080p video at 30fps in a package small (and efficient) enough to be included in a handset. The first units are now shipping to manufacturers, and while the size has increased (it's about 1cm square vs. the 6.4 x 6.5mm package previously discussed) it's still impressively small given its functionality: 1080p H.264 video decoding and encoding along with on-chip Dolby Digital 5.1-channel output. Overkill? Maybe for now, but you might change your mind when the first head-mountable satellite speakers with subwoofer seat cushions hit retail.

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Renesas's 1080p-decoding processor coming soon to a cell phone near you originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 06:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Plenty of modern cell phones have HD-quality screens on them, but few can manage any sort of high-definition video content at a respectable frame rate. That's set to change with the release of the Renesas SH7370, a chip we first got wind of back in December with its promise to offer 1080p video at 30fps in a package small (and efficient) enough to be included in a handset. The first units are now shipping to manufacturers, and while the size has increased (it's about 1cm square vs. the 6.4 x 6.5mm package previously discussed) it's still impressively small given its functionality: 1080p H.264 video decoding and encoding along with on-chip Dolby Digital 5.1-channel output. Overkill? Maybe for now, but you might change your mind when the first head-mountable satellite speakers with subwoofer seat cushions hit retail.

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Renesas's 1080p-decoding processor coming soon to a cell phone near you originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 06:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Plenty of modern cell phones have HD-quality screens on them, but few can manage any sort of high-definition video content at a respectable frame rate. That's set to change with the release of the Renesas SH7370, a chip we first got wind of back in December with its promise to offer 1080p video at 30fps in a package small (and efficient) enough to be included in a handset. The first units are now shipping to manufacturers, and while the size has increased (it's about 1cm square vs. the 6.4 x 6.5mm package previously discussed) it's still impressively small given its functionality: 1080p H.264 video decoding and encoding along with on-chip Dolby Digital 5.1-channel output. Overkill? Maybe for now, but you might change your mind when the first head-mountable satellite speakers with subwoofer seat cushions hit retail.

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Renesas's 1080p-decoding processor coming soon to a cell phone near you originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 06:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Although it's been well over a year since the Ageia PhysX processor made any noise at all over on the desktop front, the firm is taking full advantage of the exposure provided at the Games Convention in Germany to unveil the PhysX 100M processor for "high-performance" gaming lappies. According to the company, this new device aims to provide "the most intensely realistic gaming and entertainment experience to PC gamers" on-the-go, but the nitty-gritty we were hoping for simply hasn't been divulged just yet. Of course, it's fairly safe to assume that we'll only be seeing this unit packed within beastly gaming laptops that can't stray far from an AC outlet, but only time will tell which manufacturer takes the bait first.

[Via ExtremeTech]

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Ageia announces PhysX 100M processor for gaming laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Via TGDaily]

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Intel CEO compares Silverthorne criticality with original Pentium originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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