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Freescale and ARM promise $200 netbooks

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap, low-cost subnotebooks. At the heart of the reference design is the i.MX515 processor,…
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Ubuntu to run on ARM-based netbooks

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Canonical and the chip designer are to collaborate on a version of Ubuntu tailored to ARM’s architecture, with a focus on low-cost subnotebooks. Canonical has announced it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM’s Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. …
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Intel apologizes to Apple, ARM for iPhone attack

Friday, October 24th, 2008

The company has extended the olive branch over claims by two execs that inadequate ARM chips cause the iPhone to be slow Chipmaker Intel has released an apology for comments made by its executives this week on the inadequacies of the iPhone and the ARM processor driving it. …
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Intel slams ARM for ’slow’ iPhone CPU

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Any speed shortcomings in Apple’s iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan. Any speed shortcomings in Apple’s iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan Tuesday. “The shortcomings…
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