Two major conferences devoted to the ARM ecosystem and technologies were recently held, ARMTechCon and Linaro Connect. Some new product announcements were revealed, and of course ARM Servers were front and center.
Linaro Connect featured the announcement and release of the new 96Boards IoT edition, a new smaller platform specifically designed for secure Internet of Things applications. There were also conference talks on the kernel, storage, Android, OCP, and more. But of course lots of attention was placed on the ARM Server updates, with the latest information on OpenStack, Xen, and processor technology announced. Linaro focuses on Linux on ARM of course, from both a hardware and software perspective.
ArmTechCon featured a more diverse set of topics, such as automotive, robotics, Internet of Things, and others. New application specific processors devoted to secure automotive and autonomous driving, network interconnects, and GPU’s were announced as well.