Freescale is going to offer pretty sophisticated quad-core processors for high-end consumer electronic devices. And you thought consumer electronics were high end toys for grown ups! Actually, the way these things have grown, particularly smartphones came on the scene, they need a lot of processing power. What with CE devices doing recording/playback of 3D video, augmented reality, mobile gaming and driver-information systems. HD video combined with 3D is a true heavy load on any processing system, considering you need real time MPEG compression/decompression (particularly the H.264), lightning speeds are called for here. What is interesting is that the company's new i.MX6 series offers three price/performance points on the same ISA. Thus designers can design devices once and get higher performance versions simply by moving the design to the higher performance processor. These levels will be met by one, two and four core models.
Freescale aims quad-core at consumer apps
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