Samsung Announces Several New Mobile Phone Techs, Including 1GHz CPU

Posted 09/22/2009 at 4:46am | by Paul Lilly

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It's been kind of quiet over at Samsung lately, and we now know why. The eggheads behind the scenes have been readying a slew of mobile technologies, not the least of which is a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processors, the S5PC110 and S5PV210, which the company announced at the sixth annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum held at the Westin Taipei Hotel.

"More and more, user generated content currently accessed via the PC will be spread to mobile devices," said Dr. Kwang Hyun Kim, senior VP, strategic marketing team, Samsung. "PC-level performance with lower power consumption will become mainstream requirements for advanced mobile devices. Samsung developed S5PC110 and S5PV210 application processors to satisfy these conflicting requirements to enable a new level of user experience not previously possible."

Built around a 45nm Low Power fabrication processor, Samsung says both new chips will pave the way for longer battery life for mobile devices running on standard size batteries. On the performance side, the two CPUs will also come equipped with 32KB data and 32KB instruction caches, as well as 512KB L2 cache. All this in addition to a built-in 3D graphics engine and an integrated 1080p full HD codec engine - phew!

Samsung also announced a 5-megapixel system-on-chip (SoC) image sensor for high-end mobile phones, the world's first mobile display driver IC with embedded touch screen control, ramped up production of the company's proprietary OneDRAM fusion memory for handsets, and production of a new non-volatile memory technology called PRAM (phase change random access memory) that promises high-performance and low power consumption.

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