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Nokia's heavy reliance to Intel might make them to fail once again
by Wean Irdeh 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/07/02/intel-custom-foundrys-10nm-meltdown… Who's your guess on the article? Before Nokia merged with Alcatel-Lucent, Reefshark was produced by Alcatel-Lucent and manufactured in TSMC. Now that Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are one, the ReefShark is using Intel's 10nm technology for no apparent reason and we all know Intel's 10nm is a disaster right now. I'm not surprised if Nokia is actually the one who get mentioned on the article

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Nokia Documentary
by Alexander Ross 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Watched tonight the doc which was shown on bbc4 about nokias beginning, middle and downfall. this riscv stuff is kinda sounding a little like it... :/ doc name: The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Nokia Nokia main problems seam to be: Swapped with many manipulative managers that came in as it grew. The west (aka yet again America) using monopoly to crush/control competition. Nokia stopped being a open, idea sharing company after that. I didn’t know there was a time when they didn’t patent! That was a surprise. I had always assumed they where a evilcorp.

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EOMA68-A20 Prototype Status
by Paul Boddie 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hello, I don't want to intrude with questions whose answers are already known, but back in January there were estimates of "five to seven months" with regard to "shipping", by which I presume that the final hardware was meant: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/eoma68-a20-2-7-5- gerbers-off-to-factory-thank-you-to-everyone-for-the-sponsorship However, there was also the matter of prototypes being made. This was covered in the February update: "We might get lucky and have the PCBs back, if so I will post photographs." https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fosdem-2018-shakti- project-tape-out-nearly-done-2-7-5-eoma68-a20-pcbs The March update suggests that the prototypes were still waiting for RAM: "Mike is following up on pricing for Samsung DDR3 RAM, which appears to be available. I want one other guaranteed supply of a completely different RAM IC and I will tell him to go ahead with the 10 samples… but not until we have an absolute guarantee of availability. Then once the samples are done we have a clear and extremely simple and straightforward production schedule to follow." https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fosdem-recap-risc-… update-and-certification-marks The April update made a mention of another source of RAM, but nothing new about the prototype schedule: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/ddr3-ram-and-a-lib… risc-v-soc Are there any further updates on this situation? I imagine that the production schedule is more or less "when it is ready", as I have always understood it, but I did wonder whether there had been further progress with the prototypes. Paul

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Re: [Arm-netbook] [Campaign Question] The project page (crowdsupp...
by lkcl 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

thanks for this - it's really appreciated, i'm going to cc the mailing list, bcc'ing you, and taking out your email address. there is something which i've not put on the page (however it has been discussed many times over the years on the mailing list). right now the last thing that's needed is for a huge number of non-technical individuals to come online at once and overwhelm the *volunteer* technical members of the mailing list. you may not be aware of this but the total number of people working full-time paid-up to work on this project is presently ZERO. as in: the total number of people with full-time funding to work on this project is: ZERO. as this was an anticipated possibility as far back as 3+ years ago the page was *deliberately* designed to attract TECHNICALLY aware individuals and to DISCOURAGE non-technically-aware users: people who are self-starters, "tinkerers" and electronics experts. from that base of people, when they receive their pledged items, a small community will grow at a pace that they can cope with, who will then be able to create the documentation, wiki pages, update the source code and so on. by *that* time, *THEN* and ***ONLY*** then will the project be in a state where it can accommodate non-technical end-users. at that point people who can do "sales", companies that can take "orders" will be needed (because i cannot do that, due to being the Certification Mark holder). at *that* point, the advice that you've given below will become relevant. hope that helps clarify. l. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Crowd Supply <orders(a)crowdsupply.com> wrote: > submitted a question about your project, "Earth-friendly > EOMA68 Computing Devices": > > The project page (crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop) can be difficult to > read through & understand because of the heavy use of acronyms without > accompanying long-names/full-names and ELI5 definitions. I have a general > background in development & admin and I had to look up the long name and > definition for a number of the acronyms used. This approach, while more > concise, is going to be very off-putting to many people who are more used to > buying pre-built computers than building their own. I love the idea of this > project and want to see it succeed, but the harder the content is to read for > non-hardware geeks, the harder it will be to convince non-hardware geeks to > spend their money on it. > Please consider reserving some of those terms for tech specs, white papers, > etc., and replace them with descriptions &/or more generic terms that your > neighbors, friends, or relatives who ask you to help them fix their computers > or connect their new printers, etc., will understand. Better yet, ask some of > those people to read through your copy and give feedback on comprehension and > overall impression by non-computer geeks. If you don't want to reach that > audience, then please pick the lowest technical knowledge customer group you do > want to reach and get their feedback. Maybe it's the type of person who has > never worked in IT, but can attach plug & play devices, set up Wi-Fi on their > own, etc. > Again, I really do want to see projects like this succeed. Best of luck and > I've already bookmarked this for future reference. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Crowd Supply > https://www.crowdsupply.com > 811 SE Stark St, #300 > Portland, OR 97214-1241 > 800-554-2014

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Qualcomm is using Cortex A76 to beat Intel Skylake U and Y series 2017 in Snapdragon 1000
by Wean Irdeh 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/more-details-leak-on-snapdragon-100… Qualcomm is starting to pick up, I hope other fabless chipmaker will start to do so soon On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Lead time from an ARM IP announcement to new products tend to be > approximately 1 year. Also the high end cores usually only appear on > high end SoCs first( e.g. snapdragon 800 series). > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Wean Irdeh <wean.irdeh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/cortex-a76-laptop-class-p… >> >> I hope next rockchip processor in chromebook will use these cores >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk >> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >> Send large attachments to arm-netbook(a)files.phcomp.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netbook(a)files.phcomp.co.uk

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Open source Allwinner R40 circuit diagrams
by joem 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

7th page uploaded in KiCAD https://hellosemi.com/KiCAD_Linux_Boards.html (Still only find the BPi version so far) Thinking first board will be a minimalist square board with SoC 2GB DRAM serial uSD HDMI PMIC SATA USB flash just to get it to boot.

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Cortex-A76: Laptop class performance with mobile power efficiency
by Wean Irdeh 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/cortex-a76-laptop-class-p… I hope next rockchip processor in chromebook will use these cores

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Allwinner VPU kernel driver crowdfunding campaign
by Forest Crossman 29 May '18

29 May '18

I'm suprised this hasn't been posted here yet, considering its relevance to this project: https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-crowdfunding/ The engineers at Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) are running a crowdfunding campaign to complete the upstream kernel support for the CedarX Video Processing Unit (Allwinner hardware video decoder/encoder). If you're not familiar with Bootlin, they're the ones responsible for a lot of the other mainlining work that's already been done for Alwinner SoCs, so they have experience getting patches integrated upstream and with kernel development in general. They've already reached their funding goal--which includes support for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2/H.263, and MPEG-4 part 10/H.264/AVC decoding on the A20 SoC--but they have a few stretch goals that include support for newer Allwinner SoCs, HEVC/H.265 decoding, and H.264 encoding. Anyways, if any of you want to help fund the development of Free Software, this looks like a pretty good opportunity to do so! For more information, see the Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-o…

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Testing: GPIO
by Richard Wilbur 17 May '18

17 May '18

First, in adding the link to the sunxi wiki page documenting GPIO access on Allwinner chips[1] to the rhombus-tech.net "Testing" wiki page[2], I again triggered the "An error occurred while writing CGI reply" page delivered at URL: http://rhombus-tech.net/cgi-bin/rhombus/ikiwiki.cgi I clicked the "Save" button after editting the ikiwiki code and just waited for it to return. Second, the linux-sunxi wiki page refers to the interaction with the GPIO driver differently depending on whether using linux-mainline or sunxi-3.4 kernel. If memory serves it seems you mentioned we plan to ship the cards with sunxi-3.4 until we get several drivers into linux-mainline, is that so? Sincerely, Richard References: [1] https://linux-sunxi.org/GPIO [2] http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/testing/

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will lap-top really be 1.1 kg, and how wide
by Chadvellacott 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

I noticed that the campaign's main page on "Crowd Supply", says "Only 1.1 kg weight" for the lap-top. Is this specification, still part of the plan? And how wide is the lap-top planned to be (from the left edge of the case, to the right edge, across the key-board)? (I imagine that 15.6 inches is for the screen itself rather than the whole case, and is a diagonal measurement.)

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