Guest Brody Posted July 28, 2003 Report Posted July 28, 2003 The future of Smartphone processors? Lets hope so! Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new system-on-chip (SOC) processor for handheld devices today, calling it "the world's fastest mobile CPU." The chip boasts a processor clock rate of 533MHz, and is aimed at enabling new services, functions, and multimedia capabilities for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones, the company said. According to Samsung, the S3C2440 -- which supports the Windows CE, as well as Palm OS, Symbian, and Linux embedded operating systems -- is based on an ARM920T 16/32-bit RISC microprocessor core. Additionally, Samsung said the S3C2440 includes the following on-chip interface functions: a camera interface, a display controller for TFT and STN LCD displays, an SD/MMC/SDIO card controller, USB host and device controllers, a touch-screen interface, and a NAND Flash interface and boot loader for glueless use of low-cost, high-density NAND Flash memory. Samsung noted that market analyst firm Gartner Dataquest predicts that the global market for "application/multimedia processors" will reach 25 million units in 2003 and grow to 170 million units by 2007. The S3C2440 is available now in sample quantities and will be in mass production by Q4 2003, Samsung added. Links: Samsung WindowsForDevices.com
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted July 28, 2003 Report Posted July 28, 2003 MMmmmMmmmmmm..... A smartphone that could encode AND play DivX!
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