Chip-maker Freescale wants to know who your favorite mobile tech journalists or bloggers are. For the second year in the row, I’ve made the top 20 list, but unlike in 2011, this year Freescale is giving out just 5 awards. If you appreciate the mobile device coverage you’ve read on Liliputing over the last few years, you can vote for…

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Chip-maker Freescale is launching two new low-power processors with ARM Cortex-A9 cores. While competitors including Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Samsung have been duking it out for dominance in the smartphone and tablet space, Freescale is one of the top makers of chips for eBook Readers, in-vehicle entertainment systems, and other devices that you see everywhere, but not might hear…

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Last year a company called Genesi introduced a low power laptop called the Efika MX Smartbook with an 800 MHz Freescale i.MX515 processor. The company also offered an Efika MX Smarttop — a small form-factor desktop computer with similar specs. Both products are low-power, low price computers. The Smarttop runs just $129 and you can pick up the Smartbook for…

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Apparently someone forgot to name this Android tablet, because it showed up at the FCC website this week with a user manual describing it simply as a Freescale IMX515 PC. Since Freescale is a chip designer that just happens to have a mobile processor called the i.MX515, I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that’s not…

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Sure, Asus is making waves with its plans to launch a $200 Eee PC X101 netbook soon. But a company named Genesi has been offering a 10 inch mini-laptop for $199 since February. It’s called the Genesi Efika MX. Now the company is working on a new platform that could be even cheaper. The secret is the Genesi notebooks are…

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Chip maker Freescale introduced a new line of low power chips earlier this year based on single, dual, and quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 chips. At the time, all we really had to look at were spec sheets. But ARMDevices.net got more information about the new Freescale i.MX6 platform at this week’s Freescale Technology Forum. The company is now demonstrating a reference…

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Netronix is a Taiwanese company that produces eBook readers and computer components. But Charbax from ARMdevices caught up with the company at CeBIT this week and got a chance to check out a new Android tablet with a 9.7 inch display. The tablet has a Freescale i.mx51 processor, a capacitive multitouch display, and runs Google Android 2.2 Froyo. The company…

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Freescale Semiconductors recently announced plans to bring dual and quad-core ARM-based chips to market, but we won’t actually start seeing devices built around those chips until much later this year. In the meantime, the company is showing off a number of tablets and other computing devices that have been developed recently using the company’s low power, single core ARM Cortex-A8…

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When you plug in your phone to charge, the battery sucks energy from the wall jack until it’s full. But that’s not the whole story, because most wall chargers actually continue drawing energy even if there’s no phone plugged in at all. Now Freescale is introducing technology to eliminate this so-called “vampire” power problem. Basically, the Freescale “Watt Saver” system…

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Chip maker Freescale plans to launch a new line of low power, ARM-based chips in the coming months. The i.MX 6Solo, i.MX 6Dual, and i.MX 6Quad will all be based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture, but as you probably guessed fromt he names, the chips will be available in single, dual, and quad-core versions. While the 6Solo will be the cheapest…

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Want to get your hands on a smartbook with an ARM-based chipset but don’t feel like waiting for Toshiba or HP to bring their models to the US? Genesi USA has you covered. The company has launched a mini-laptop with a 10.1 inch display and an 800MHz Freescale i.MX515 ARM Cortex-A8 CPU. The smartbook is called the Efika MX Smartbook,…

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OK, let’s be honest. Odds are you already spend an awful lot of time in front of digital screens, including your TV, computer, smartphone, video game console, and what have you. But Freescale’s latest demo videos shows how one device with an all-day battery, high quality video, and wireless capabilities could last you all day, while interacting seamlessly with other…

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