The next wave of multi-core mobile processors destined to fill our smartphones and tablets is upon us. Texas Instruments, by way of a press release, introduced its new TI OMAP 4470 multi-core application processor this afternoon. Sporting two ARM Cortex-A9 MPcores running at a blistering 1.8GHz and two ARM Cortex-M3 cores, this beast of a chipset lays dual-core competitors to rest.
The Samsung Galaxy S 2 and HTC Sensation have just dipped their feet in the smartphone pool and already TI has come out the gate with the jaw-dropping OMAP 4470. In addition to the dual A9 and M3 cores, there’s a PowerVR SGX544 graphics core with support for DirectX, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1 and OpenCL 1.1. What this boils down to in lay terms is this chipset is capable of supporting three HD displays, each up to QXGA resolution (2048×1536), and stereoscopic 3D.
We’ve heard rumblings the Nexus 3 could be a quad-core smartphone, produced either by Motorola or LG. If that holds true we wouldn’t mind seeing the OMAP 4470 make its way into the third generation Nexus.
Coming 2011 | Texas Instruments | TBD
