Company Texas Instruments is one of the most reputable manufacturers of SOC. It is their products are used by many manufacturers of smartphones, including those by Google. Today was announced system-on-new-generation chip, which was named TI OMAP 5.
With this announcement, we can understand what will be smart phones that were released in 2012-2013 and what can we expect from the manufacturer. The new SOC is made of 28-nm process technology and is equipped with dual-core ARM Cortex A15 processor with a clock frequency of 2 GHz and 2 MB second level cache. System-on-chip memory supports LPDDR2-533, USB 3.0, SATA, as well as equipped with powerful graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX 544MP2.
Representatives of Texas Instrumentals emphasis on the use of a new generation of processors Cortex A15. According to engineers, the new processor with a clock frequency of 800 MHz was more productive than the Cortex A9 processor with a clock frequency of 1,5 GHz.
Spoil the overall picture only possible emergence of a new SOC on the market. The first smartphone based on TI OMAP 5 fall on the shelves only at the end of 2012/nachale 2013.
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