OMAP1710 - new processor for smartphones from TI announced today
December 11, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1.
Orange SPV, SPV E100 and SPV E200, as well as Motorola MPx200, are powered by OMAP 710 processor made by TI (Texas Instruments). Today TI announced new processor for smartphones: OMAP1710. While Intel is very aggressive and was introducing this year several processors especially for handhelds - both PDA and cellphones - we haven´t seen much news in this area from TI lately...
Some highlights about the new OMAP1710 processor:
- the OMAP1710 device offers up to 40 percent improvement in performance for a variety of mobile applications, while consuming as little as half the power of current TI application processors.
- Cell phones that include the OMAP1710 processor will also provide the ideal mix of multimedia features and cost-effectiveness, making them more attractive to the high-volume market for multimedia smartphones
- The OMAP1710 processor engines include an ARM TM processor, a TI DSP engine, as well as a range of software and hardware accelerators for video encode and decode, still picture compression, Java and security.
- The device supports advanced mobile operating systems such as Linux, Microsoft´s Windows Mobile, Nucleus, Palm OS and Symbian OS
- The OMAP1710 processor is expected to sample in the first quarter of 2004
To read more about this processor click here.
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