Freescale Takes on Intel in Netbooks

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pcmag.com - 1/5/2009

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At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Freescale will show off a new integrated chip that it says can be used to design cheaper, thinner netbooks with more battery life.

intel.com - 1/5/2009

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— intel.com — Optimizing Adobe Flash Technology on Intel Media Processor CE 3100 Will Enable Rich and Seamless Web Content... on TV SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Intel Corporation today announced plans to collaborate on ... (more) Intel and Adobe to Extend Flash Platform to TVs

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pcworld.com - 1/5/2009

Freescale Chases $199 Netbook With New Processor

— pcworld.com — Freescale on Monday is expected to announce a new processor for netbooks that may challenge chip maker... Intel on price in the low-cost computing space. The company's i.MX515 processor will run on netbooks, low-cost laptops that are designed to perform ... (more) Freescale Chases $199 Netbook With New Processor

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CrunchGear: ARM-based netbook design at CES

Liliputing: Freescale-powered netbooks could hit $200 this year

Gearlog: Archos Combining Phone, Tablet with Android

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ARM-based netbook design at CES
CrunchGear — ... The platform is known as Cortex and the aforementioned design will come from Pegatron, which is an ODM (original design manufacturer) for Asus. Although Asus hasn’t said whether it would produce ARM-based netbooks for sure, a company rep told PC Magazine that "all the ODMs and all of the OEMs are evaluating netbooks in this category." ...

Freescale-powered netbooks could hit $200 this year
Liliputing — ... at CES this week. The netbook on display at CES will be built by Pegatron and will likely be based on Freescale’s reference design, which features an i.Mx515 processor. No word on whether any OEMs have adopted the reference design yet, but Freescale estimates that the architecture could be used to ...

Archos Combining Phone, Tablet with Android
Gearlog — ... Although Archos did not release the price of the tablet, the company disclosed several other features. The IMT will measure 5 inches on the diagonal and be 10 millimeters thin. The tablet will be powered by Texas Instruments' OMAP3440 processor, based on the ARM Cortex platform that was recently announced. The device will also contain up to 500 Gbytes of storage, although whether it will be an SSD or a hard drive was not disclosed. The IMT is also expected to be able to play back video for seven hours straight before the battery is depleted, and the device will connect to the ...

What Processor Is In the iPhone 3G S?
Gearlog — ... What we don't know, as phone analyst Sascha Segan points out, is what particular flavor of ARM chip it is. Is it a Freescale Cortex chip? A more prosaic ARM derivative, merely clocked higher? My notes show that Apple's characterizations of the iPhone 3G S performance focused on four key"benchmarks": the ability to lauch messages (2.1 times faster than the 3G), loading SimCity (2.4 times faster), viewing an Excel attachment (3.6 times faster) and loading the The New York Times. ...