OMAP4470 Will Power Smarter Smartphones

Users keep demanding more and more power on their smartphones. They would expect ever smarter apps to run on these devices. The processors have started to become multicore in the process. Over the years the user interface experience has become an important feature required in smartphones. That has driven graphics capability into the processor core.With the blowing up of video demand, it is increasingly necessary to have these combine CPU+GPU  processors handle video. Video at HD and 3D variants are also increasingly being demanded. manufacturers are trying to meet these demands with processors with multiple cores, integrated graphics processing and capability to handle HD video, etc. Here is an example that was announced back in jun and are due into market by early 2012, sampling should start during second half of this year. Here's the press release announcing the processor.
OMAP4470 app processor packs processing power, graphics and display functions

Texas Instruments To Launch Feature-Rich, ARM-Based Mobile OMAP 5 Processors

According to this news item, these chip samples are going to be available by the second half of this year.These ARM based processors are directed at the mobile space and possibly brings the mobile computing closer to reality. The OMAP 5 packs a lot of processing power and is a significant improvement over the OMAP4.The new chip will have dual ARM Cortex A15 cores, running at 2 GHz. These are helped along by dual Cortex M4 cores that's handle the real-time load, such as video processing.

The 28 nm fab process helps the chip, even with four cores running, manage with 60% of power consumption of the OMAP4. Performance wise the OMAP 5 will deliver 3x processing power an 5x graphics processing compared to the earlier generation.

The chip will thus be able to easily support stereoscopic (3D) applications that include video conferencing using some additional graphics power. Four HD displays or four cameras can simultaneously be supported. Devices using the OMAP 5 will be to offer record and playback 3D video, or convert 2D video to 3D, at 1080p resolution. It will let advanced gesturing applications, touch-less sensory technology, and computational photography applications such as face recognition, object recognition and text recognition, etc. be supported.



Texas Instruments To Launch Feature-Rich, ARM-Based Mobile OMAP 5 Processors