TI announces the OMAP 4440, 1.5Ghz, dual core, 1080p, stereoscopic 3D

[Bateluer]

http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/08/texas...l-core-omap4440-1-5ghz-1080p-stereoscopic-3d/

Today, Texas Instrument announced a new, ARM-based, dual-core processor that has a lust-worthy specification sheet. The OMAP4440 processor, which is based on the Cortex-A9 MPCore, will have both cores clocked at 1.5GHz. The chip will provide a “1.25x increase in graphics performance, a 30 percent decrease in webpage load time, and a 2x increase in 1080p video playback performance.” The press release goes on to note that the new chip will support 1080p stereoscopic 3D, 1080p video conferencing, gesture recognition, two 12 megapixel cameras working in parallel, and a plethora of video codecs and formats.

Yummy. Hope to see plenty of devices with dual core Snapdragons, Tegras, OMAPs, and Orions.

Do NOT want to see a single ARM CPU dominating , as Intel does on the PC side. Probably much more difficult to happen with the ARM instructions, since they're licensed out by ARM Holdings.

 

[Deeko]

Looks pretty kick ass. 2011 looks like a solid year for mobile CPU development, and I say its about time. GPUs have improved, but CPUs have barely gotten better since the HD2 was released in September '09.

 

[Bateluer]

Looks pretty kick ass. 2011 looks like a solid year for mobile CPU development, and I say its about time. GPUs have improved, but CPUs have barely gotten better since the HD2 was released in September '09.

Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, Samsung, etc, offer some really powerful mobile offerings, but they are restricted by carriers. HTC cannot just make a phone to sell in the US, they have to license it to specific carriers and pay for the privilege. Scrap that, letting HTC, LG, Samsung, Motorola, etc, just make a device with compatible radios and let the customer decide what carrier/plan they wish. We'd then see many more products with more varied hardware, and higher end hardware quicker.

 

[Deeko]

Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, Samsung, etc, offer some really powerful mobile offerings, but they are restricted by carriers. HTC cannot just make a phone to sell in the US, they have to license it to specific carriers and pay for the privilege. Scrap that, letting HTC, LG, Samsung, Motorola, etc, just make a device with compatible radios and let the customer decide what carrier/plan they wish. We'd then see many more products with more varied hardware, and higher end hardware quicker.

The carriers aren't to blame for all the woes of the cell phone world. It took Europe months to get an Evo equivalent in the DesireHD, and their Galaxy S isn't exactly a different beast from ours.

 

[Bateluer]

The carriers aren't to blame for all the woes of the cell phone world. It took Europe months to get an Evo equivalent in the DesireHD, and their Galaxy S isn't exactly a different beast from ours.

My point is that artificial restrictions need to be removed.

 

[SunnyD]

And in other news, TI reveals their OMAP4440 will require a small nuclear reactor which will allow for a runtime of 2 hours and 13 minutes... on standby.

It's a shame there's no battery advances coming down the pipe to keep pace with these hardware advances.

 

[Bateluer]

And in other news, TI reveals their OMAP4440 will require a small nuclear reactor which will allow for a runtime of 2 hours and 13 minutes... on standby.

It's a shame there's no battery advances coming down the pipe to keep pace with these hardware advances.

I don't think the battery life will be much improved from current devices, but these new CPUs only have marginally higher TDP than their predecessors thanks to improved manufacturing processes and power saving technologies baked right into the silicon. Battery life on a smart phone should be comparable to what we have right now.