TI's OMAP 3 3430 processor announced, does high def
We
all pretty well know by now if you're getting a decently powerful ARM-based cellphone, you're either rocking an Intel
Xscale CPU, or you're rocking a Texas Instruments OMAP processor. Well, today TI announced their latest mobile
powerhouse chip, the OMAP 3 processor (specifically, the OMAP 3430 model designation). They're claiming the OMAP 3430
has triple the performance of current OMAP 2 chips; so much power, in fact, that it can handily record high definition
movies in MPEG-4, H.264, WMV HD (aka VC-1), and RealVideo 10 (and play those formats back, of course), and snap
second-to-second 12 megapixel camera shots. Lofty claims, we know, but we won't be able to (dis)prove these guys
probably at least until mid-2007, since they won't be shipping chips until early 2007, and will only start shipping
samples by the middle of this year.[Via HDBeat]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
E71 @ Feb 14th 2006 8:51PM
Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! OH MY GOD! Yeah!
I hope HTC put this baby in their next phone, oh plus more features like FM radio BT2.0 and TV.
Now, I wonder if there's a way of sticking this OMAP 3 chip into my HTC Wizard.