
Hardware video acceleration is a
sore subject for quite a few cellphone fans these days, but it looks like Samsung's next generation of mobile processor will speed up graphics directly by integrating a hardware video accelerator. The 65nm S3C6410 processor is based on a 667MHz ARM core but adds in 3D graphics acceleration and hardware support for H.264 and MPEG4, as well as other codecs. The chip is powerful enough to record and play VGA-res video at the same time, which Samsung says will enable higher-quality video conferencing while saving battery life -- that's what we like to hear. There's no word on when or where we might see this bad boy pop up, but with support for Linux, WinMo, and Symbian, as well as architecture support for various types of DRAM and flash memory, we'd guess there might be a few interested suitors.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave @ Feb 11th 2008 5:17PM
horray! suck it HTC!
Moco Binson @ Feb 11th 2008 7:10PM
finally
apjain @ Feb 11th 2008 11:06PM
New iPod touch/iPhone?
~~Tito~~ @ Feb 12th 2008 3:58AM
Me wantie!!
fyreblazer @ Feb 12th 2008 8:15AM
Do me a favor EM...please stop egging these people on. Every single comment the past month has been something about drivers/HTC. If you're not happy, return your device and leave the comments. Thank you.
NuShrike @ Feb 12th 2008 3:57PM
Hey! Thanks for offering to buy all the phones people can't return. You're so generous!
You're offering to pay for our next phones also and you guarantee your manufacturer isn't going to bait-and-switch like HTC? That's awesome!