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Yesterday HP announced retail availability of two ARM based servers, the ProLiant m400 and m800. Each are offered in a server cartridge as part of the Moonshot System. A single 4.3U Moonshot chassis can hold 45 server cartridges. Usually higher numbers mean better, but in this case the m400 and m800 are so significantly different I wouldn’t consider them competitors. The m800 is focused on parallel compute and DSP, while the m400 is focused on compute, memory bandwidth, IO bandwidth and features the first 64-bit ARM processor to reach retail server availability. HP ProLiant ARM Servers m400 m800 Processors 1 4 Processor AppliedMicro X-Gene Custom 64-bit ARMv8 TI KeyStone II 66AK2H Cortex-A15 ARMv7A + DSP Compute cores per processor 8 CPU 4 CPU 8 DSP Clock Speed 2.4 GHz 1.0 GHz Cache Memory Each core: 32KB L1 D$ and I$ Each pair: 256KB L2 All...
AMD/TI's DockPort Adopted As Official Extension to DisplayPort Standard
Shortly after the launch of Intel’s Thunderbolt interface in 2011, there was a great deal of discussion to be had in several camps over what the future of data...
27 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2014The Archos 101 XS Review: Prettier, Faster, So Much Better
We looked at the Archos G9 Turbo devices just a few months ago, and came away . . . impressed. Lofty promises of being “the world’s fastest tablets” haunted...
44 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/22/2012TI Demos Windows RT UI Performance on OMAP 4470
Last week at Computex, TI showed Anand Windows RT running on one of their own reference tablets. While performance was good according to Anand, Microsoft has instructed partners to...
20 by Brian Klug on 6/14/2012TI Joins the Windows RT Demo Fray
Not one for being left out, TI had a demo of Windows RT running on its OMAP 4470 reference tablet. Microsoft instructed its partners not to show off anything...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012TI Shows off OMAP5430 GPU Performance before Computex
Before MWC 2012, TI showed off OMAP5 performance in a video which compared CPU performance to Nvidia's Tegra 3 SoC. The occasion this time around is Computex, and TI...
19 by Brian Klug on 6/3/2012The Archos G9 Tablet Reviews: Fast Enough
There's nothing quite like being fastest. Even to be atop the heap of competitors for a second can be a thrill and a great story. And so it was...
39 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/23/2012Archos 80 and 101 G9 Turbo 1.5 GHz Available Now In US
Quick update, to the Archos news we've had rolling lately. US buyers can now pick up the Archos G9 Turbo line of tablets at their promised 1.5 GHz; the...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/19/2012TI Brings OMAP 5 to MWC
A month ago we saw weeks old OMAP 5 silicon running at CES. Earlier this week we got a chance to see TI's OMAP 5 reference platform playing back...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/29/2012TI Posts OMAP 5 Dual Core A15 vs Quad Core A9 Video
It seems as though everyone is trying to preempt build excitement before MWC 2012 with their next-generation SoC related news. We've previewed Qualcomm's Krait performance on an MDP MSM8960...
26 by Brian Klug on 2/23/2012TI Announces WiLink 8 Family - WiFi, GNSS, NFC, BT, and FM Combo Chip
It goes without saying that connectivity is a hugely important part of smartphones. After all, without some sort of network connection, you've basically just got an expensive PDA or...
15 by Brian Klug on 2/13/2012Droid 4 Available February 10th for $199
It feels like we first saw images of the Droid 4 just a few days after our review went live. And so seven months later, looks like Verizon customers...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/7/2012TI Wireless Charging - New Chipsets and 10W charging for Tablets
This morning we stopped by TI's power management group to check out what all they had in store, and got to check out some demos of their new second...
18 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2012TI Shows Off OMAP 5 & ARM Cortex A15 at CES
We weren't allowed to take photos but we've just seen TI's OMAP 5 reference platform up and running Ice Cream Sandwich with full GPU acceleration enabled. The 28nm chip...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/12/2012BlackBerry London Image Leaked: The First QNX Phone
First reported by The Verge and subsequently confirmed by Boy Genius Report, the first image of BlackBerry's first BBX phone has leaked, and it is a significant departure from...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/15/2011Motorola Droid RAZR Performance Preview: A Faster Browser
When we published our preliminary iPhone 4S performance results we pointed out that the current state of stock Android (2.3.x) browser performance is pretty bad. Google improved browser performance...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Jason Inofuentes on 10/18/2011A look at Windows 8 Tablets running on TI, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Intel silicon
This afternoon (and yesterday) we had a chance to meet with a number of SoC vendors who have partnered with Microsoft for Windows 8. Each of them has their...
94 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2011Droid Bionic Outed: OMAP 4430 Reigns
When the hype machine for a product hits a certain decibel, you can expect some legitimate news to come rolling in. And so it is, after covering the leaked...
16 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/2/2011TI OMAP4 First to be Awarded Netflix HD DRM Certification
Last week, TI Invited me out to their Dallas, Texas headquarters as part of an editors day. There they showed and talked about a number of exciting projects, including...
23 by Brian Klug on 7/5/2011TI Announces OMAP4470 and Specs: PowerVR SGX544, 1.8 GHz Dual Core Cortex-A9
The last time we visited TI's OMAP 4 SoC was at Mobile World Congress, there we benchmarked the LG Optimus 3D and came away decently impressed with performance even...
30 by Brian Klug on 6/2/2011