A new tablet a day spurring new SoC a day

A new tablet a day spurring new SoC a day

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Its not difficult to notice that over the last year or so, technology has gone up a notch releasing a tablet a day. Tally them all up, its more like several new tablets are released PER DAY running mostly Android.

The cause? SoCs which boot from SDCard/USB and other common PC like sources without needing the complex input of engineers developing systems with JTAG debuggers.

Here - info about how ARM boots from SDCards to USB and serial ports directly these days:

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No need for JTAG programmers or the knowledge to drive them to get a computer built from scratch - just a soldering iron and some PCB.

You don't even need to read the thousands of pages of manuals describing the SoC and its internal peripherals. All you need to do is boot Linux and do a little bit of porting work and the software that others have built configures itself from one CPU to next CPU taking care of all the details automagically from all the scripts that have been made for ARM chips by other developers and who then shared them out with the GPL and open source Linux. The result makes the peripherals available to programs through standard interfaces allowing the booted Linux to immediately operate SDCard, USB, ethernet, serial port, video and other subsystems.

All this easy boot options has increased the uptake of ARM SoCs to the point where we are nearly there with a new ARM SoC being announced PER DAY.

What does this mean for distro makers?

The world is changing and they need to change with it.

They need to pull their finger out and scramble to port their distros to these new chips for the increased business opportunity it presents. Hiring one or two electronics engineers into the development team and making PCBs will bolster their business credentials with minimal expenditure. These engineers no longer need to be extremely talented hardware developers welded to their JTAG debuggers to get on with OS porting work.

If businesses coming knocking for boards, all the more better because they can release their creations in hardware as well as software and help everyone in the loop make more money.

The internet of things is the next revolution where complete OS is booted into a trivial product and that product communicates by internet to make it something bigger than the sum of its parts. From washing machines doing the dirty talking talking to you about how dirty your clothes are, you fridge showing you how much food is in the fridge/freezer, or your wall thermometer telling you how warm the room is are all things that are coming. Coming more quickly if Linux boots into those chips more quickly than any other competing OS.

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Totally flooding the market, increasing customer confusion and causing all sorts of incompatabilites.

Cos its free.

You're an idiot.

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Hadro

Totally flooding the imaginary hallucinagen driven Hardon market, increasing Hardon confusion and causing all sorts of trolling incompatabilites.

Burson-Marstelar employee Hadron quaaacckkkhhhh troll is welded to his idiocy.

Its hard to separate hadron quaaackkkkhhhh troll from his idiocy. But then again PR company Burson-Marstelar and its employees are ignorant by virtue of their trolling operations in usenet anyway!!

A new tablet a day spurring new SoC a day

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Its not difficult to notice that over the last year or so, technology has gone up a notch releasing a tablet a day. Tally them all up, its more like several new tablets are released PER DAY running mostly Android.

The cause? SoCs which boot from SDCard/USB and other common PC like sources without needing the complex input of engineers developing systems with JTAG debuggers.

Here - info about how ARM boots from SDCards to USB and serial ports directly these days:

formatting link

No need for JTAG programmers or the knowledge to drive them to get a computer built from scratch - just a soldering iron and some PCB.

You don't even need to read the thousands of pages of manuals describing the SoC and its internal peripherals. All you need to do is boot Linux and do a little bit of porting work and the software that others have built configures itself from one CPU to next CPU taking care of all the details automagically from all the scripts that have been made for ARM chips by other developers and who then shared them out with the GPL and open source Linux. The result makes the peripherals available to programs through standard interfaces allowing the booted Linux to immediately operate SDCard, USB, ethernet, serial port, video and other subsystems.

All this easy boot options has increased the uptake of ARM SoCs to the point where we are nearly there with a new ARM SoC being announced PER DAY.

What does this mean for distro makers?

The world is changing and they need to change with it.

They need to pull their finger out and scramble to port their distros to these new chips for the increased business opportunity it presents. Hiring one or two electronics engineers into the development team and making PCBs will bolster their business credentials with minimal expenditure. These engineers no longer need to be extremely talented hardware developers welded to their JTAG debuggers to get on with OS porting work.

If businesses coming knocking for boards, all the more better because they can release their creations in hardware as well as software and help everyone in the loop make more money.

The internet of things is the next revolution where complete OS is booted into a trivial product and that product communicates by internet to make it something bigger than the sum of its parts. From washing machines doing the dirty talking talking to you about how dirty your clothes are, you fridge showing you how much food is in the fridge/freezer, or your wall thermometer telling you how warm the room is are all things that are coming. Coming more quickly if Linux boots into those chips more quickly than any other competing OS.

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7

You're really quite insane as well as incredibly ignorant. You're living proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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Hadro

He's living proof that condoms sometimes do fail.

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Torre Starnes

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