Windows 10 OS will cover 1 billion devices

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that in the following 2 or 3 years, there will be over 1 billion users choosing Windows 10 OS. That shows Microsoft is quite confident of recovering its Windows business. In the IDF conference, Microsoft launched its new tools which allows app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone OS to be transplanted for Windows 10 OS.

Windows 10 will be available in this summer, now, Microsoft is trying to boost PC market by its Windows 10 OS and attract more tablets and smart phones users adopting Windows 10 OS. As the new feature of Windows, developers will develop more apps for Windows OS. In fact, there is the weakness of Windows.

Microsoft said, we have seen many people using Windows 7 OS, many 2 in 1 devices support touch operation, so we are quite confident of the future of Windows 10 OS.

Total incoming of ARM in 1st quarter is nearly 340 million US dollars

Today, the chipset design company, ARM announced that its total incoming during 1st quarter of 2015 is nearly 340 million US dollars. Compared with last year, it is increased by 22%. This number has already taken over 335 million US dollars we estimated before. So why there is such a great increase?

As our investigation in market, that is because that ARM framework has a very high market share in new smart phones. But people also said, though, ARM has a very good sales result in the 1st quarter of 2015. But in whole industrial, the total incoming is still going down. Many smart phones appeared in this CES 2015 trade show may be available for sale in the 3rd quarter of this year. And new iPhone may be also launched in Sept.

Though, iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6 and other well know smart phones are adopting customized processor. But they are all based on ARM framework. As the high performance of ARM processor, till now, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are still in high demand several months after it was available. As the latest information, till last month, iPhone 6 is still the most welcomed smart phone in China and UK.

ARM acquired two companies in US

Today, ARM announced that it has already acquired two companies in US. One is Wicentric and the other is Sunrise Micro Devices. And ARM will launch a new brand name, Cordio. In meanwhile, ARM developed one new technology, Sub-voltage Bluetooth system. It will help chipset suppliers shorten the time for products availability.

ARM did not tell how much it costs to acquire these two companies. Sunrise will produce low power consumption wireless devices, like Bluetooth 4.0 CMOS. Wicentric will provide Bluetooth Smart software stack for the low power consumption wireless devices. Sunrise was established by some staff working for Motorola Labs before.

As we know, the major incoming of ARM is chipset for smart phones and tablets. Recently, ARM is trying to enhance its position in Internet of Things.

Recently, ARM has already made some small acquisition. For example, it has already acquired one company from Holland. Now, ARM is fighting for the market of Internet of Things.

Mediatek launches one decuple core processor

Yesterday, Suverimax disclosed the latest news. Mediatek has already started to promote its new high end processor, Helio X20 processor to its major clients, like Vivo, XiaoMi etc. The biggest feature is this Helio X20 is one decuple core processor.

But what is a pity, Suverimax did not tell the detail information of this Helio X20 processor. And we also searched online, but there is no information can be found. But Suverimax said, after tested by 3rd party software, this Helio X20 is scored by over 70 thousand, it is very similar as the Samsung Galaxy S6.

As our estimation, this decuple core processor should integrate one octa core and one dual core processors. The dual core processor should be one co-assistant CPU. It can help to reduce the power consumption. But of course, maybe it is real decuple core processor, if so, that may be too amazing.

We have further report about this CPU in future.

Forcast: Surface tablet pc sales volume may exceed 4 million pieces

As news from suverimax.com, as estimation, in 2015, the total sales volume of Surface tablet pc may exceed 4 million pieces. In 2014, its sales volume was only 2 million pieces. That means, the sales of 2015 may be twice of 2014. The reason the sales increase is the Surface 3 which was launched recently, and the new Surface Pro 4 which may be available for sale soon. As news, the new Surface Pro 4 may be launched in April, and it will be massively produced in June.

In March, Surface 3 was launched, and this tablet will be available for sale in May. Its price is 499 US dollars. This price is quite competitive in market.

Microsoft announced recently the sales volume of Surface tablet has already exceed 12 million pieces. In 4th quarter of last year, its sales was increased by 24% compared with 2013.

In 2015, tablets based on Windows OS may be sold about 15 million pieces including Surface tablets. Compared with 2014, it is increased by 30%. But as the Surface 3, many suppliers may not be willing to launch tablets with Windows OS.

Google launches several Chrome OS devices with Rockchip processor

Yesterday, Google officially launched several new Chromebook laptop PC, and one HDMI sticker. These new products are produced by ASUS, Haier and Hisense. Except the low price, all of them are adopting processors from Rockchip.

The four new laptop PC are ASUS Chromebook C021, Haier Chromebook 11 and 11E, and Hisense Chromebook C11. Haier Chromebook 11 and Hisense C11 are both adopting 11.6 inch IPS screen, resolution is 1366*768 pixels. Both units owns the Rockchip RK3288 processor. Difference is the Hisense C11 adopts 2.5GHz Rockchip RK3288. And Haier Chromebook 11 adopts RK3288-C, its frequency is 1.8GHz, this processor is based on ARM Cortex A17, GPU is Mali-T760. Its performance is very good. The RAM is 2GB, and flash memory is 16GB.

Regarding the battery life, as the low power consumption of RK3288-C, the new Chromebook devices are much better than old ones, for example, the ASUS Chromebook C021 is 13 hours battery life.

The market director of Rockchip said Rockchip has very good relationship with Google. They have made long time cooperation on tablet pc and smart phones. And this RK3288-C has very good performance on Chromebook.