14 DAY TRIAL // Following Google's annual conference for developers, one of Creative's owned subsidiary, ZiiLABS has introduced a new family of energy-efficient media processors, the ZMS-20 and the ZMS-40.
Both CPUs have been optimized for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets, and come with up to 96 Stemcell media processing cores to give an improved performance of up to 100 processor cores, which is an industry’s first.
The ZMS-20 (with Dual-Core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processors) and ZMS-40 (with Quad-Core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processors) have been designed to increase application performance by 4x over the older ZiiLABS processors.
The ZMS-20 combines ZiiLABS’ 48 Stemcell media processing cores with dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors with Neon to deliver 1080p high-profile video playback, immersive OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics, HD video calling, as well as a rich desktop browsing experience including Adobe Flash Player.
In addition, the ZMS-20 was specifically engineered to meet the performance and power efficiency requirements of the latest Android tablets more effectively than any other processor on the market.
“The competitively priced ZMS-20, and the ZMS-40 with its quad Cortex-A9 cores will herald a new generation of low-cost, low-power yet high-performance tablets, mobile thin clients for cloud computing and other embedded appliances for the post-PC era,” said Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of Creative Technology Ltd.
It looks like the manufacturer plans to showcase and demonstrate Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets and associated design-kits based on the ZMS-20 at the Computex 2011 tradeshow, in Taiwan, between 31 May and 4 June.
However, commercial availability of the processors has yet to be announced by ZiiLABS. According to the company, the ZMS-20 is sampling now to select customers and is scheduled for volume shipment to customers in the 3rd quarter of 2011.
Regarding the ZMS-40, ZiiLABS stated that additional details and specifications would be announced later this month.
