While Marvell does offer application processors, its current offerings aren’t as powerful (or common) as chips from competitors Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or Texas Instruments. According to information uncovered by SemiAccurate, however, it looks as though Marvell may be about to make a significant leap forward from the ARM v6/7 chips it currently produces. Sources indicate that Marvell is working on new…

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Globalscale Technologies is showing off a new $249 desktop PC with an ARM-based chip and support for 1080p HD video playback. The D2Plug computer can run Ubuntu Linux or Google Android 2.2, and joins a growing list of “Plug” computing devices. But this space may get even more interesting when Microsoft releases Windows 8 with support for ARM-based processors. The…

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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is showing off several new tablets at CeBIT in Germany this week. ECS is an original device manufacturer in Taiwan, which means that you probably won’t ever see a product sold under the ECS brand name in the West… but you might see a tablet that looks a lot like the ones on display at CeBIT…

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Some folks think that tower desktop PCs are just too big, so they opt for all-in-one computers like the iMac which hide the PC in the monitor. Others opt for low power solutions like nettops which shrink a PC down to the size of a Nintendo Wii, or a somewhat chunky optical disc drive. And then there’s the DreamPlug. This…

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The One Laptop Per Child initiative is on the floor at CES 2001, and they’ve announced some rather exciting news on their official blog — the new OLPC XO 1.75 systems will feature an ARM-based CPU and support touchscreen input. The developer board (above) includes a 1GHz Marvell Armada CPU which consumes just two watts of power, and the new…

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Chip maker Marvell is starting to show off a rather exciting reference design for an Android tablet. Powered by a Marvell Armada 600 chip, the tablet has a 10 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel HD display and support for 1080p HD video playback and 3D graphics acceleration. I got a chance to check out a prototype this evening, and I…

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ARM-based processors are known for their low power consumption, not necessarily for their blazing-fast speeds. But these chips which are usually found in phones and low power machines like TV set-top-boxes are starting to catch up with the chips typically found in PCs. Today Marvell has unveiled its first quad-core ARM-based processor, which he company says is the “fastest ARM…

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One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte tells Xconomy that the group has received a $5.6 million grant from chip-maker Marvell to develop low cost tablets built around Marvell’s low power chips. That’s not a huge surprise, since the two have been working together since earlier this year. But here’s what I learned from the Xconomy article that I didn’t…

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Sure, NVIDIA already has a dual core ARM-based chip for tablets, smartbooks, and smartphones, and Qualcomm is working on one of its own. But who needs a dual core chip when you can have a triple core chip? Chip maker Marvell has announced a new 1.5GHz tri-core processor called the Marvell ARMADA 628. It’s an ARM-based chip which can handle…

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Research In Motion is expected to launch a BlackBerry tablet later this year or early next year. That much is pretty certain at this point. But we’ve been hearing rumors about what kind of specs the tablet will have for months, and until RIM actually gets around to announcing the device, I’m going to keep filing the specs people are…

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So there’s a 2-day event going on this week in San Francisco called the Netbook Summit. And some of the coolest items on display are tablets. Go figure. Anyway, Engadget’s Joanna Stern got a little hands-on time with a 10 inch Android tablet sporting a Marvell Armada 610 ARM-based processor. Marvell doesn’t actually build tablets, notebooks, or other consumer products….

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Just because the Apple iPad has a starting price of $499 doesn’t mean all tablets need to cost that much. Chip maker Marvell is introducing a platform for a $99 tablet for the education market. The company’s “Moby” prototype features an ARM-based processor and it can handle 1080p HD video, Adobe Flash, and 3D graphics. The low power Marvell ARMADA…

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