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Mystery Marvell tablet crashes the Netbook Summit

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, […]

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Marvell shows off ultrathin smartbook prototype with Armada 510 CPU

While Marvell is pushing its new Armada 610 chipset with 3D and HD graphics capabilities, the company is also showing off products this week based on its existing Armada 510 technology. Somehow I missed this one last night, but the folks at Engadget spotted an unnamed smartbook prototype with a 12.1 inch display, a full […]

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Marvell’s ARMADA 610 brings 3D, 1080p HD encode/decode to MIDs and PMPs

Manufacturers of MIDs, portable media players, e-readers, and tablets will be soon able to reap the benefits of Marvell’s new ARMADA 610 chipset. The new design incorporates a gigahertz-class ARM v7 compatible CPU, 3D graphics (including Open GL ES 1.1/2.0 and Open VG support), as well as  full 1080p processing. On top of that, ARMADA […]