Intel reportedly will ship a super-high-integration IA32 SoC (system-on-chip) in late 2007, with a development board available in Q2. The “Tolapai” design integrates a Pentium M core, northbridge, and southbridge into a single 37.5mm-square chip clocked from 600MHz to 1.2GHz, according to presentation slides posted at Chinese technology website HKEPC. (more…)

This detailed, hands-on review examines Nokia's Linux-based N800 web tablet first as a consumer electronics device, and then as a platform for open source software development. Reviewer Jerry Epplin infuses the review with crotchety humor and deeply technical insights. (more…)

Opera Software has “pre-ported” the SDK (software development kit) for its device-oriented Opera 9 browser to Freescale Semiconductor's i.MX family of multimedia applications processors. The Opera 9 SDK for Devices brings the company's sophisticated website rendering and navigation technologies to devices running embedded Linux, Opera… (more…)

Trolltech and VirtualLogix have partnered with the aim of helping handset manufacturers deploy Linux on low-cost, mass-market feature phones powered by single-core processors. The companies are planning a single-core Linux phone demonstration at the 3GSM World Congresss next week in Barcelona. (more…)

VirtualLogix (formerly Jaluna) is prepping an evaluation version of its platform virtualization software for mobile handsets. VLX-MX (“Mobile Experimentation”) will be freely available this quarter, and will help qualified prospective customers explore, benchmark, and otherwise evaluate the company's virtualization technology for mobile handsets, it says. (more…)

Foreword: This detailed, hands-on review examines Nokia's Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet first as a consumer electronics device, and then as a platform for open source software development. (more…)

An open source project has launched with the goal of building a completely open source software stack for mobile phones. The GPE Phone Edition (GPE2) project aims for compliance with standards defined by the LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum, and has already published an early implementation. (more…)

The rapidly-growing market for “computer-on-module” (COM) embedded boards increasingly is dominated by several “major” open standard formats, Venture Development Corp (VDC) reports. Open, standardized architectures such as ETX and COM Express are perceived as offering greater flexibility and capability than the proprietary formats that launched the COM market, VDC says. (more…)

Fabless semiconductor startup P.A. Semi is sampling a power-efficient, dual-core, 64-bit PowerPC processor targeting networking, storage, mil/aero, and wireless infrastructure. The Linux-friendly, 2GHz PWRficient PA6t-1682M consumes 3-4 times less power than other equally appointed 65nm processors — about 25 Watts,… (more…)

An international ham radio club that originated in Tucson, Ariz. is inviting public comment on a draft license governing open hardware designs. The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) club's Open Hardware License (OHL) version 0.9 is available online for comment and discussion through March 7. (more…)

Carrier grade Linux (CGL) provider Wind River has partnered with network equipment provider (NEP) Radisys and high-availability middleware vendor Clovis on a “pre-integrated” ATCA/Linux platform. (more…)

A device manufacturing and design house in Shenzhen, China is offering an ARM-based “UMPC” (ultra-mobile PC) with an embedded Linux OS. The Beijing Peace East Technology Development Company's “H9” design features a high-quality 7-inch LCD display, GPS receiver, 128MB of RAM, and a 520MHz PXA270 processor. (more…)

Wind River has joined the Texas Instruments (TI) third-party partner ecosystem, and will collaborate with TI's Dallas-based mobile handset division on advanced Linux and hardware/software tools support for TI's ARM11-based OMAP2430 smartphone processor. The partnership could also produce a Linux-based mobile phone reference design, according to Wind River. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. (more…)

Taiwanese embedded board and system integrator Embedian is shipping a low-power, passively cooled Linux server for SOHO (small office/home office) file-, print-, mail-, and web-serving. The ASR-7110 is based on a 400MHz ARM9 processor, and comes with a complete Debian Linux-based server software stack. (more…)