The International ARM Race: Rise Of The Chinese SoC

[shahbaz200]

They shouldn't be closed source.

 

[tomfreak]

I dont care who make the product or who copy who, as long it is a good quality cheaper product = then it is a good product.

 

[clonazepam]

SWEETMUSK - please stop posting duplicates. Also, anyone else doing so for voting purposes could be banned from Tom's.

Here's what happens. Someone posts a comment. Then they immediately click on Refresh because they're really excited to get some reaction or votes. The act of refreshing the page right after commenting causes duplicates to be posted.

The good news is that the fact this is happening means there are new readers here at Tom's.

 

[Vlad Rose]

MediaTek is Taiwanese not Chinese
remove it from the list

Taiwan is part of China, thus included on the list.

 

[pessimism]

The author forgot about AMLOGIC, another scourge of the android world.

 

[renzhe]

MediaTek is Taiwanese. Just as Taiwanese as Asus and Gigabyte.

 

[wavetrex]

I have a PiPo M9-Pro tablet using RK3188. (1920x1200, GPS, All sensors). While it's fast and can run anything, the reliability is really poor.
I had to do hardware reset on the tablet several times, and sometimes it slows down to a crawl for a couple of minutes without any apparent reason.
The tablet is sturdy, the screen looks great, and when it works, it works well. That is, when it doesn't freeze... 🙁

For this reason, I still won't recommend these kind of "cheap" tablets to anyone because of the many "bugs" the hardware and software contain... too bad, seems like wasted electronics 🙁

 

[somebodyspecial]

Sometimes you really do get what you pay for 😉 With china, ...

 

[broccauley]

It is quite sickening to have seen Western companies like TI, ST-Ericsson, Broadcom etc. being forced to exit this market (mostly due to the sheer dominance of the Qualcomm monopoly and the insanity following the reality distortion field around Apple and then Samsung products meaning there were less opportunities for more competition) and the space being filled by these inferior Asian companies with products that often in the past have not met regulations (e.g. in the past Mediatek have released chips that did not pass GSM certification but its products were flooded in the grey market anyway), do not engage in the open source community, and are often using stolen IP.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Qualcomm is an American company.

Both ST and Ericsson are European, though. So...

Yeah, you're pretty much 100% out. And there's plenty of good asian products, e.g. Samsung, Panasonic etc.

 

[bloosteak]

Taiwan is not a part of China. Words need to mean something. The equivalent of what the author is writing in China would be like "Movies made by White people"

 

[bloosteak]

To add, the author is now writing about tech that's created by a "race" of people instead of a nation, its very odd. I doubt that's his intent but that's what it seems like when Taiwan is for whatever reason included in a list about Chinese tech.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

It's perceived as being a 'budget' part, which in many cases people correlate with 'cheap chinese'.

Especially as the hardware it goes into often falls under that banner.

 

[omnimodis78]

MediaTek is Taiwanese not Chinese
remove it from the list

Since when is Taiwanese not Chinese? Read a book.

Please don't bother pulling the Party's BS here, nobody will buy it - keep your Chinese lies in China, we know the facts, and the fact is that Taiwan is a constitutional republic - only communist mainland China spins it otherwise, and brainwashed communists who to this day can't believe it that the Republic of Chinese government got the hell out of the mainland as per the Chinese Civil War. The best part of China and the Chinese people are in Taiwan, and they no longer care to identify themselves as "Chinese". Sorry for your loss. This article is shockingly BS!

 

[terroralpha]

MediaTek is Taiwanese not Chinese
remove it from the list

Since when is Taiwanese not Chinese? Read a book.

you're a little dumb.

 

[The3monitors]

This article is kindof like saying race against the clock for china to create a real colt pistol. Aint going to happen.