14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Texas Instruments announced officially the launch of the OMAP4440 applications processor, with impressive performance enhancements when compared to the company's OMAP4430 CPU. Among these improvements, we can count the speeds of 1.5 GHz per ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore the new CPU can achieve.
The new OMAP4440 processor was launched as a highly-optimized system-on-chip (SOC) that includes two ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore general-purpose processors, able to achieve speeds of 1.5 GHz per core.
At the same time, the solution includes two ARM Cortex-M3 cores, as well as programmable cores like a POWERVR 3D graphics engine, TI IVA 3 for high-definition/multi-standard video, the TI C64x DSP for natural user interface, TI image signal processor (ISP) for high-quality/high-megapixels imaging, and more.
The new chip can offer a 1.25x increase in graphics performance, a 2x increase in 1080p video playback performance, as well as a 30 percent decrease in webpage load times.
According to the company, the new CPU should prove a great option when it comes to next-gen smartphones and tablet PCs, as it can enable 1080p stereoscopic 3D (S3D), or 1080p video conferencing.
The platform comes with support for concurrent, high-performance processing and high-definition multimedia, while being secured with TI M-Shield security. It can offer great performance on low-power consuming devices through TI SmartReflex power and performance management technologies.
“The increased performance given by the OMAP4440 applications processor illustrates TI’s ability to push mobile computing possibilities with the right processor architecture enveloped in the right platform, ” said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president, OMAP platform business unit, TI.
“We seized an opportunity to enhance the platform capabilities driving the OMAP4430 processor’s success today.
“As OMAP4430 processor-based products hit the market in first half 2011, we’re arming our customers with a huge performance boost via an easy migration to OMAP4440 processor for their next wave of exciting devices," El-Ouazzan continued.
"The resulting user experiences will radically impact how consumers continue to integrate mobile technology into their daily lives.”
Some additional info on the new solution can be found in the tables to the left.
According to Texas Instruments, the OMAP4440 applications processor should start sampling in Q1 2011, and should hit production in the second half of the next year.
