The manufacturing side of the “Race to the Bottom” Ecosystem

Are you aware of $32 entry-level Android tablets available for local resellers around the world? Are you aware that this is the price of Intel’s upcoming in October 2013 Bay Trail-T Z3740 SoC, i.e. a chip only? Are you aware of the fact that in October such entry-level Android tablets will get a lower power … Continue reading →

Allwinner A23 Dual-Core SoC: The most efficient one in its low-end category

Update: Allwinner A23, optimized dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, lower power consumption and lower cost [Charbax YouTube channel, Sept 15, 2013] Here’s Eva at the Allwinner booth announcing the launch of the new Allwinner A23 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali-400 GPU, they claim it to be the most efficient dual-core in the world. The new Allwinner A23 … Continue reading →

$40 entry-level Allwinner tablets–now for the 220 million students Aakash project in India

Update: An Anti-iPad for India [MIT Technology Review, March 11, 2013] Suneet Singh Tuli, the man behind the ultracheap Aakash 2 tablet, says the West doesn’t understand mobile business in the developing world. … We did a study to understand where the inflection point for PC deployment in the U.S. was: when did PCs really … Continue reading →