Edward Kirk
February 11th, 2008, 12:30 AM
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Samsung helped kick off Barcelona's Mobile World Congress with their new S3C6410 platform. It combines the technology of a 667MHz ARM processor and a hardware Multi Format Codec decoder/encoder block that that offloads a lot of the work that is normally done by the CPU.<!--break-->
So what's so special about this chip? Well, it supports the playback of video formats like H.264, MPEG-4, and VC-1, and can also record standard-definition (640x480) video at full speed... while playing video back at the same time. This means that it could potentially be used for two-way video calling between mobile devices with the chip, while still improving battery life.
Other features of the chip that break new ground are improved 3D graphics, scaling, and other visual tasks that tend to drain CPU speeds. It also supports dual RAM ports, giving it enough memory to handle hight resolutions without suffering slowing down the system.
Samsung says the S3C6410 supports "all major high level operating systems". So far there's no word on who will be getting the chip, but the possibility of it ending up in an iPhone down the road is definitely there, especially since they currently use an ARM processor <a href="http://www.iphonealley.com/news/iphone-processor-uncovered-samsung-620mhz-arm-cpu" target="_blank">in the iPhone</a>.
[via <a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/10/samsung.s3c6410.arm.chip/" target="_blank">Electronista</a>]
Samsung helped kick off Barcelona's Mobile World Congress with their new S3C6410 platform. It combines the technology of a 667MHz ARM processor and a hardware Multi Format Codec decoder/encoder block that that offloads a lot of the work that is normally done by the CPU.<!--break-->
So what's so special about this chip? Well, it supports the playback of video formats like H.264, MPEG-4, and VC-1, and can also record standard-definition (640x480) video at full speed... while playing video back at the same time. This means that it could potentially be used for two-way video calling between mobile devices with the chip, while still improving battery life.
Other features of the chip that break new ground are improved 3D graphics, scaling, and other visual tasks that tend to drain CPU speeds. It also supports dual RAM ports, giving it enough memory to handle hight resolutions without suffering slowing down the system.
Samsung says the S3C6410 supports "all major high level operating systems". So far there's no word on who will be getting the chip, but the possibility of it ending up in an iPhone down the road is definitely there, especially since they currently use an ARM processor <a href="http://www.iphonealley.com/news/iphone-processor-uncovered-samsung-620mhz-arm-cpu" target="_blank">in the iPhone</a>.
[via <a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/10/samsung.s3c6410.arm.chip/" target="_blank">Electronista</a>]