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Frustrating isn't it?  You're using your new smartphone or tablet to view pages on the Internet, watch a video or get the latest traffic information and the mobile communications just can't handle it.…

It’s fitting that we start ARM Kickstarter Week with a teardown of the Pebble watch. To me the Pebble was a breakthrough hardware product on Kickstarter and it broke new ground in two ways.

For our first interview during Kickstarter Week we decided to start at the beginning of hardware design and look at the development board choices for aspiring Kickstarters. This is a good news scenario…

To allow the ARM ecosystem to manage the next stage of its evolution, ARM is introducing a set of small scale enhancements known as ARMv8.1-A.

It is difficult to summarize 20 years of development of the AMBA architecture, and I hope this short blog provides a simple overview of its function as well as a brief summary of the architecture's history…

Chinese Version 中文版: 使用DS-5从FVP中收集Trace数据One of the new features for ARM DS-5 Development Studio in v5.20 is instruction trace for our Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP) simulation models. This enables you to…

In the newest version of Android, Lollipop (5.0), the virtual machine (VM) implementation has changed from Dalvik to ART. Like most VMs, ART has an interpreter for executing the bytecode of an application…

Embarrassingly ParallelIn the world of parallel computing when an algorithm can be easily split into multiple parallel jobs, where the output of each of the jobs doesn’t depend on the output of any other…

The first Carbon Performance Analysis Kit demonstrating the AMBA 5 CHI protocol has been released on Carbon System Exchange. The design features Cortex-A57 for AMBA 5 CHI and CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent…

Qualcomm is excited about wearables for many reasons, not least of which is because most people use one phone per person but everybody can have multiple wearables so it’s a huge market.

Chinese version 中文版： 人物专访：如何解决 IP 集成问题I recently had the opportunity to sit down with David Murray and talk about the current state of affairs for IP integration in the context of building systems. For…

Wearables are about taking the ubiquity of the Internet one step further. With virtually limitless applications wearable technology represents a huge value proposition and growth.

A 'smart' device isn't smart if you can only control it locally. What good is that? You need the ability to control your devices remotely. And that's where remote configuration comes into play.

We are currently in the early stages of a so-called “wearable revolution”, with several new wearable devices in different form factors and functions.

The 'Internet of Things' or 'IoT‟ represents an exciting opportunity for device manufacturers, service providers and consumers alike.  The ability to connect billions of 'things‟ to the internet…

Previous blog in the series: Mali Performance 3: Is EGL_BUFFER_PRESERVED a good thing?In my previous blogs in this series I have looked at the bare essentials for using a tile-based rendering architecture…

IntroductionThis last blog in the Movie Vision App series, following on from The Movie Vision App: Part 1 and The Movie Vision App: Part 2, will discuss two final movie effect filters.Movie Vision Filters…

Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in embedded processing solutions, has released two Layerscape architecture (LS) SoCs based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture that Freescale describes as “delivering…