Tag Archives: ARM

Out Go The Lights In Taiwan (NOT)

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“TSMC had mulled setting up its 3nm wafer fab in the US due mainly to the availability of stable power supply there. For any 12-inch wafer plant, more advanced process requires higher power consumption, with electricity consumed by 3nm process … Continue reading →

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Marvell MACCHIATObin Delayed

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Estimated shipping : end of October (Based on availability from Marvell)” See Marvell MACCHIATObinOne of the candidates to replace my AMD64 hair-drying Beast was promised for September but now it’s October… Shucks! Socketed RAM, SATA connectors, lots of Ethernet… Why can’t … Continue reading →

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ASUS Provides Competition In ARM SBCs

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“From a performance perspective, the ASUS Tinker Board is a capable ARM SBC for its price tag of only $60 USD. The performance is very good against the inexpensive (sub-$100) boards while obviously if needing greater performance there is more … Continue reading →

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Failing To Deliver What The Customer Wants

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Gigabyte Technology is expected to see its motherboard shipments fall under 13 million units in 2017 from 16-17 million units in 2016, and could struggle to maintain the 10 million level in 2018, due largely to the dwindling desktop PC … Continue reading →

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Evolution Of My Plan To ARM IT

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Robert Pogson

The on-off-on status of the LeMaker Cello makes my original plan to replace my current energy-guzzler with that motherboard difficult to say the least. There isn’t a single ARMed motherboard on the market that matches my needs. In addition, I’ve … Continue reading →

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LeMaker Cello Undead?

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“The Cello was announced in early 2016 as a $299 USD developer board with the A1100 ARM 64-bit SoC with four Cortex-A57 cores @ 1.7GHz. The Cello features two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots capable of ECC RAM, two Serial ATA 3.0 … Continue reading →

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Intel Surrenders To ARM

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Intel has discontinued three of its offerings for the Internet of Things and embedded device markets. The chipmaker said in a series of low-key product updates that it would be killing off the Edison, Galileo and Joule compute modules and boards … Continue reading →

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SBCs

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Over the last year, LinuxGizmos has reported on dozens of new community backed, open spec, hacker- and developer-friendly single board computers that run Linux and Android. We’ve added these to a curated list of earlier boards to publish a catalog … Continue reading →

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Solid Run Delivers

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“The Marvell MacchiatoBIN is a first-of-its-kind Cost-Effective and High-Performance networking community board targeting OpenDataPlane (ODP), OpenFastPath (OFP) and ARM network functions virtualization (NFV) ecosystem communities.” See Marvell MacchiatoBINI received an e-mail that Solid Run has been taking orders and shipping for … Continue reading →

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RK 3399 And Linux

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“This patch add basic node for the board and make it able to bringup. Peripheral works:- usb hub which connect to ehci controller;- UART2 debug- eMMC- PCIe Not work:- USB 3.0 HOST, type-C port- sdio, sd-card” See Linux-Kernel Archive: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: … Continue reading →

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More On M$’s Servery Moving To ARM

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Redmond’s desire, over the next few years, to see the majority of its Bing web search and indexing, Azure cloud platform and database services, online storage, machine learning, and other features, powered by Windows Server on beefy ARM chips.…We found … Continue reading →

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Pigs Fly At M$

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Microsoft has committed publicly to use ARM chips in machines that will be running cloud services in its own datacenters before year-end.” See Windows Server on ARM: It’s happeningChuckle. For many months commentators here have been telling me ARM won’t make … Continue reading →

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