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April 2012 CEO Report
Linaro’s work affects many segments other than mobile – cars, TV, cameras, kiosks, printers, consumer and enterprise routers, servers – the market for Linux on ARM extends to billions of devices. The ARM architecture and business model encourages SoC vendors … Continue reading
March 2012 CEO Report
Linaro has made substantial progress in its goal of consolidating and optimizing Linux on the ARM architecture. As an open source-focused organization this work has been carried out completely in the open, and has benefited from the active participation of … Continue reading
February 2012 CEO Report
Linaro is now receiving industry recognition for its work, both from a purely technical viewpoint, and in helping the member ARM SoC vendors work together on common challenges, while remaining fierce competitors with successful differentiation. This month I’d like to … Continue reading
January 2012 CEO Report
There are three themes that run through our plans for 2012. These are in addition to continuing our work in consolidation and defragmentation of existing ARM open source code in the various relevant upstream projects, with most but not all … Continue reading
December CEO Report
Despite the impact of the very welcome holiday season Linaro achieved a new set of monthly deliverables described below. As we start a new year it’s worth reminding ourselves of the achievements of the last 12 months: In February we … Continue reading
November CEO Report
Looking Forward Until now, Linaro has principally been focused on short-term challenges and needs from our members. As some of the more pressing issues have been resolved we have started to look further into the future. With input from all … Continue reading
October CEO Report
With the advent of the Cortex-A15, ARM CPU cores have become considerably more powerful, and despite ARM’s flagship SoC MIPS/watt ratings, the increasing number of MIPs inevitably also requires an increasing amount of Watts. Despite remaining the low power industry … Continue reading
September CEO Report
Differentiation and a Single ARM Linux Kernel This note was inspired by our current roadmap discussions within Linaro. A view was offered that a single ARM binary kernel wasn’t that important in the embedded world. This led to thinking more … Continue reading
August CEO report
This month the mobile market outlook significantly changed over the course of a single week with Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobile, and HP’s exit from the Web-OS device market. The most likely scenarios moving forward appear to be, first, despite … Continue reading
July CEO Report
Last month I discussed how Linaro’s working groups deliver technology to kernel.org and other upstreams. Over time, open source distributions including Google’s Android utilize this work in their latest releases, benefiting Linaro’s ARM SoC members by accelerating their time to … Continue reading