TI Announces OMAP4440 Processor for Mobiles With 1.5 GHz Each Core

Today Texas Instruments has announced OMAP4430, a next generation processor for smartphones. The new processor has new chipset is designed with future mobile needs like video chat and ability to use in tablets and has a performance boosts. This include a 1.25x increase in graphics performance, a 30 percent decrease in webpage load time, a 2x increase in 1080p video playback performance and clock speeds as fast as 1.5 GHz per ARM® Cortex-A9 MPCore, 1080p stereoscopic 3D (S3D), 1080p video conferencing and gesture recognition.

OMAP™ 4 Key Benefits:
Designed to drive Smartphones, Tablets and other multimedia-rich mobile devices
IVA 3 hardware accelerators enable full HD 1080p, multi-standard video encode/decode
Faster, higher-quality image and video capture with digital SLR-like imaging up to 20 megapixels
Dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ with Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
Integrated POWERVR™ SGX540 graphics accelerator drives 3D gaming and 3D user interfaces
Highly optimized mobile applications platform
OMAP4430 operates at up to 1 GHz
OMAP4440 operates at up to 1.5 GHz


Support Features:
Composite TV output
HDMI output to drive HD display
Larger, color rich display support up to WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
MIPI serial camera and serial display interfaces
MIPI® SLIMbusSM
MMC/SD
USB 2.0 On-The-Go High Speed
Comprehensive software suite supporting all major mobile OSes that is fully integrated and tested for real-world use cases to reduce development time and costs
OMAP Developer Network provides programs and media components for manufacturers to create distinctive products delivered to market quickly


The OMAP4440 applications processor will sample in first quarter 2011 and the commercial production expected by the second half of 2011. You can visit Texas Instruments's website for more details. 

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