Chinese chip maker Rockchip plans to demonstrate a new system at the Consumer Electronics Show next week for wirelessly synchronizing Android smartphones and tablets with computers on your home network. The Rockchip eHome Cloud Solution will allow users to transfer or share files or stream music or videos wirelessly. The press release doesn’t really describe […]
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Rockchip bringing more than 35 tablets to CES 2012
Chinese chip maker Rockchip plans to show off tablets from 35 to 40 different brands at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The company’s 1.2 GHz RK2918 ARM-based processor supports Android 4. Ice Cream Sandwich and it’s likely that at least some of the new devices will use Google’s new operating system. Most of the companies that […]
Android 4.0 is coming to Rockchip tablets – video
Chinese chip maker Rockchip is starting to show off tablets with Rockchip processors running Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Google released the source code for the latest version of Android recently, and it looks like Rockchip plans to offer the software for some tablets running its 1.2 GHz RK2918 processor during the first week of December. […]
Android netbook with RockChip RK2918 CPU shows up in China
Charbax from ARMdevices is visiting a trade show in China this week and one of the more unusual devices he spotted is a mini-laptop with an ARM-based processor and Google Android operating system. That’s not too unusual, since we’ve been seeing cheap Chinese netbooks with Android for the past few years, but there are a […]
Sneak peek at the updated Archos Arnova 10 tablet
The Archos Arnova 10 is one of the cheapest 10 inch Android tablets around, but the current model is hampered by a resistive touchscreen display and a relatively slow processor. But Charbax from ARMdevices got a chance to check out a new version of the Arnova 10 which has a faster processor and a better […]
CES booth tour: The many tablets of Rockchip
Chinese chip maker Rockchip had one of the most crazy spread of Android tablets I’ve seen at the show this week. Unfortunately none of the tablets were labeled, and most won’t be sold globally any time soon. But you do get an idea of just how many low cost devices are running RockChip’s low power […]
Rockchip RK2818 and RK29 processors demoed in new video
We knew they’d be on display at CES 2011, but Rockchip has decided to allow an early look at their new RK2818 and RK29 processors. As mentioned before, the ARM A9-based processors support more RAM than the previous version and are fully OpenGL compatible (unfortunately, attempts to launch a 3D game during the demo resulted […]
Rockchip to introduce RK29xx mobile chips at CES
Chinese chip maker Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics makes the chips that power a number of the cheap Android tablets we’ve seen coming out of China over the past year or so. Now the company plans to introduce a new line of chips, aimed specifically at devices running Android 2.2, Google TV, and similar software. The Rockhip […]
New version of the Archos 7 Home Tablet features Android 2.1?
Update: As several people have pointed out in the comments, it’s not entirely clear if we’re looking at an Archos prototype, or an Archos tablet that’s been hacked to demonstrated some new Chinese hardware. First the good news — it looks like Archos maybe working on an updated version of the Archos 7 Home Tablet […]
Rockchip introduces new low power chip for Android tablets
Chinese chip maker Rockchip is introducing a new 1GHz CPU for tablets and other mobile devices. The Rockchip RK2808 is an ARM-based chip with support for 256MB of memory and screen resolutions up to 1024 x 768 pixels. We’ve seen a number of Chinese tablets with Rockchip processors in the past, but most have been […]