Our friends at QualComm’s have enjoyed a more or less monopoly on the mobile CPU market for some time – Samsung didn’t do much for quite some time, and Marvell (the new owner of Intel’s ARM division) also didn’t show anything recently.
However, the latter folks apparently haven’t given up just yet. The press release below just went out – the most important details are below:
CES – Las Vegas, Nevada (January 5, 2010) — Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced the newest addition to the ARMADA family of application processors – the Marvell® ARMADA™ 610 series. Designed for mobility, the ARMADA 610 features a gigahertz-class CPU, integrated 1080p full-HD encode and decode, and 3D graphics to offer high performance and visual and entertaining experiences for eReader, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), tablets, smartbook/netbooks, connected portable media players, smartphones, and new personal information appliances. Apart from its family members, the ARMADA 610 is designed to use extremely low power while maintaining high processing performance and attractive price points for manufacturers.
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Marvell’s extensive experience in producing board support packages and reference boards enable a full suite of operating system platforms for the ARMADA 610. The reference platform is a turnkey solution that includes the ARMADA 610 and Marvell’s latest Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, all in a compact form factor for software development. And with support for Linux, Android, Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE, ARMADA 610 customers will have one of the broadest choices of platform solutions in the industry.
Even though Symbian, RIM IOS, Apple IOS and webOS don’t show up on the list, getting them up and running should not be an issue. After all, the underlying CPU architecture remains the same – the real issue is making use of the added decoders and accelerators…
As of now, not much more info is shown. However, the device is said to be shown off at the CES…
P.S.2 The image doesn’t show the newly-announced CPU, as Marvell did not share any images so far. It instead shows a Microchip PIC16F84a in a TamoggeTalk doerchen2 prototype…
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