ZiiLABS of Singapore, has produced a 100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor which combines processing cores with four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs.
By doubling the number of StemCell Media processors compared to the
previous ZMS-20, the ZMS-40 delivers twice the peak media performance,
while running the larger array at lower clock speeds to achieve the
same performance leads to greater energy efficiency and a reduction in
power consumption claimed to be up to 50%.
With 2X the performance and 2X the power efficiency, the ZMS-40 is for
handheld devices. It delivers H.264 HP decoding of up to 3840x1080 for
1080p 3D stereo, 2560x1600 (WQXGA) display resolution support and OpenGL ES graphics and future support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
HEVC or H.265 can increase data compression ratio by up to
2X as compared to H.264 and targets the next generation Hi-Def TV market which can support scalable resolutions from 320x240 to 1080p up to 7680x4320.
Being fully programmable and massively parallel, the device is said to be able to handle the computational requirements of this new codec and support higher resolutions that are beyond today's display systems.